Small Scrum

The first Scrum team was at a Boston company called Easel Corporation in 1993. Under the advice of Jeff Sutherland, this team created a modern development framework that included a dynamic object-oriented programming language, among many other cutting-edge components. The team was cross-functional, collocated, and never exceeded eight people in size.

This is small Scrum. By now you probably have a good grip on how to do small Scrum. When it's one team to one backlog, that's a pretty easy existence, one called simple, or small. As long as the product backlog is kept in a ready state, teams can pull the next item. Small Scrum can also be described as the basic Scrum framework applied in its pure form with no modifications. However, ...

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