Summary: The Scum Guide

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• 1 Definition of Scrum

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• What the 3 key characteristics of scrum?

  Lightweight, Simple to Understand and Difficult to Master

• In a nutshell, what kind of environment does the Scrum Master need to foster? (name 3/4)

  1.  A Product Owner orders the work for a complex problem into a Product Backlog.
  2. The Scrum Team turns a selection of the work into an Increment of value during a Sprint.
  3. The Scrum Team and its stakeholders inspect the results and adjust for the next Sprint.
  4. Repeat

• What components does the Scrum Framework consist of?

  Scrum teams and their associated roles, events, artifacts, and rules.

• What is the role of the rules of Scrum?

  The rules of Scrum bind together the roles, events, and artifacts, governing the relationships and interactions between them.

• Why is the Scrum framework purposefully incomplete, only defining the parts required to implement Scrum theory?

  1. Scrum is built upon by the collective intelligence of the people using it.
  2. Rather than provide people with detailed instructions, the rules of Scrum guide their relationships and interactions. 

• What does Scrum make visible?

  Scrum makes visible the relative efficacy of
  
  

  • current management
  • environment
  • and work techniques
    
    

  so that improvements can be made.

• 2 Uses of Scrum

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• What was the initial goal of Scrum?

  It was initially developed for managing and developing products

• Name a couple of uses of Scrum, worldwide

  1. Research and identify viable markets, technologies, and product capabilities'
  2. Develop products and enhancements;
  3. Release products and enhancements, as frequently as many time per day;
  4. Develop and sustain Cloud (online, secure, on-demand) and other operational environments for product use; and,
  5. Sustain and renew products.

• In what way is Scrum's utility in dealing with complexity proven?

  Technology, market and environmental complexities and their interactions are rapidly increased. Thus Scrum is of beneficial use.

• When does Scrum proof to be especially effective?

  In iterative and incremental knowledge transfer