Summary

In this chapter, you have learned the following about Scrum, as well as its relevance to agile practices in terms of development and to support operational business functions:

• The term Scrum comes from a sports metaphor related to Scrum. We also looked at why a team-oriented concept improves software and systems development and delivery.
• The importance of executive leadership and support for long-term success and enterprise-wide adoptions.
• How Scrum's empirical process control theory helps teams work through complex adaptive problems through experimentation and observation. We also looked at the importance of its three pillars: transparency, inspection, and adaption.
• Scrum has a product-oriented focus on development, not a project-oriented focus. We looked at how that helps put the focus squarely on adding customer-centric value.
• You also learned about the essential elements of Scrum so that you can include its rules, roles, responsibilities, artifacts...