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Hi, my name is Alan Zucker.
I'm the curator of the
Project Management
Principles program
here at Henry Stewart Talks.
I have over 25 years of
experience managing projects
and programs in
Fortune 100 companies.
I live outside Washington,
DC, and teach for
several major
universities including
the University of Georgia,
the University of Virginia,
and several leading international
training companies.
In this session, we're
going to talk about Scrum.
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Scrum is the most popular,
the most common
Agile methodology.
About 70-75% of teams
that are practicing
Agile use Scrum.
The word "Scrum", as people
always ask, actually
comes from rugby.
There was an article
written back in the 1980s
by two Japanese professors
where they talked
about how the leading product
development teams
were moving from
a relay-race type process to
what they called "Scrum",
everybody is working together.
Scrum is a lightweight framework
that helps teams generate
value through adaptive
solutions to complex problems.
Let's unpack that a little bit.
When we talk about
complex problems,
we're talking about
problems where there's
no clear solution or
where changing one thing
may impact something else.
Scrum is a way to deal
with that complexity,
and the way we primarily do that
is through an iterative
and incremental approach.
One of the things
that's worth noting,
and this was called out in
the Scrum Guide, is that
Scrum is easy to understand,
but it's very
difficult to master.
In this brief module,
I'll explain all the basic
principles of Scrum.
But to really become a master
takes years of
experience because
you're dealing with
different problems
and a lot of different
complexities.
