Insights on Scrum

Most likely, the majority of project management professionals have already heard of Scrum.

As it is a "simple" work management model, it has become one of the most popular agile frameworks.

Although it has its roots in solving problems experienced by technology professionals, it can be applied to other types of ventures, as described in the book "Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time," by Jeff Sutherland, one of the creators of Scrum, and his son J.J. Sutherland.

Some related aspects:

• It aligns with the 4 values and 12 principles of the Agile Manifesto.

• It is based on empiricism and lean thinking and adopts an iterative and incremental approach.

• At short and regular intervals of time (sprints), the team must deliver a value increment (which can be a service, product, or result).

• The core of Scrum is the "3 + 5 + 3":

3 roles: Product Owner, Scrum Master, and Developers.

5 events: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospectives, Sprint.

3 artifacts: Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, and Increment.

• The Scrum team is typically limited to up to 10 people, considering all roles. It is self-managed and possesses all the necessary skills to deliver the result of the vision shared by the Product Owner.

• It has 3 pillars: Transparency, Inspection, and Adaptation.

• It has 5 values: Commitment, Focus, Openness, Respect, and Courage.
  

Despite this simple structure, some of the greatest challenges of Scrum reside more in "being agile" than "doing agile."

Some of them are related to cultural and behavioral aspects. For example, the engagement and commitment of people to the events, the involvement of the client in specifying needs, interferences that distract the team from the commitment made to the sprint, resistance from the organization, among others.

Regarding this point, one of the interesting learnings I had in my last Scrum training was the use of "Patterns" as a reference to deal with some of the Scrum challenges. The "Patterns" present solutions to some problems that occur in the implementation of Scrum, such as prioritization of backlog items, estimates, refinements, rituals, requirements that emerge during the Sprint, among others.

It's worth checking out! https://www.scrumplop.org/, click on "Published Patterns".

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Published originally in Portuguese, on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/priscilazvmezzena_scrum-scrumpatterns-agile-activity-7107383723632844800-R2oO?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop