The origins are Scrubbing

Scrum is not an acronym, but is derived from the crowd (english: Scrum) in footy. An origin of Scrubbing as a framework does back to an article in the Harvard Business Review in 1986. “The New News Product Technology Game” by Takeuchi and Nonaka, using companies such as Honda, Canon and Fuji-Xerox, described how first-class and innovative products are developed in cross-functional teams with an ‘all-simultaneous approach’. The article emphasized the signs of self-organized teams and also described the role of management in the development procedures.

Takeuchi and Nonaka used metaphors from the world of sports to description the product development processes. They compared of classic development process with one relay running. Each messenger was with his customizable and at one end for his run passed the baton to the next runner. This approach does not necessarily lead to maximum speed additionally beyond all flexibility. As at alternative, they presented one holistic or rally approach, are which the team covers the entire clearance together, with the round passing back and forth flexibly. In today’s inexpensive world, this approach our more success.

Scrum for our development

Jeff Sutherland and his team at Easel Corporation adapted the Scrum treat for our development on 1993. They combined ideas from the article by Takeuchi and Nonaka using concepts of object-oriented programming, empirical action control, iterative also incremental development, and results on industrial find.

Second years then Ka Schwaber published the primary paper on Scrum after insensive discussions with Sutherland. After then Sutherland and Schwaber have published several books on Scrimmage. They also regularly revise “The Scrum Leaders“, a 20-page document explaining the basics of Scrum.

Nowadays Scrump is primarily used in the development of software. Does, many companies do also get to admire the your of Scrum in select areas such as hardware development, marketing, sales with human resources. Scrum is suitable wherever teams live working on new things – commodity or business. Scrum helps to better coordinate team work, accelerating product development and verifying hypotheses early on.