What You Must Know About Scrum Flashcards
How does Scrum help you solve problems?
Scrum is a problem finding framework. By itself, it solves only a small subset of the problems you will encounter as you develop a complex product.
Scrum sets you up with a way of finding and dealing with the issues you will encounter along the way. Scrum helps shine a spotlight on your biggest challenges, issues and risks that will prevent you from delivering a valuable product.
Scrum is designed to help you discover and deal with these issues early and often. This in turn helps you to lower risk and start eliminating issues early and often, rather than later when time is more limited and pressure is higher.
Why does Scrum make us work in short cycles?
Scrum requires us to work in short cycles (Sprints) and reevaluate and replan each Sprint in order to take advantage of new insights and learnings.
Why is it better to discover issues early in Development effort?
It is better to discover issues early in the Development effort so there is time and options available to deal with them.
Scrum is about learning how to get Done earlier and exposing the issues that prevent so we can collaborate to overcome them.
What is the benefit of producing Done Increments each sprint?
Producing Done Increments each Sprint enables agility, maximises options, limits waste, lowers risk and allows a Scrum Team to deliver value early and often. All of this is critical to success when doing complex work.
Why is Scrum so lightweight?
Scrum is deliberately lightweight and incomplete. It will not be enough on its own to enable you to build complex products. You will need to add appropriate practices and tools to help you succeed. Scrum is a starting point and not the end result. Use Scrum to create, adapt and improve your own process and ways of working.
