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10 Aug 06

Scrum Alliance: Weekly Column 8-7-2006


  • The underlying premise of Scrum is that the people, technology, and requirements of most development projects are too complex for single solutions

  • Now, however, the Product Owner is responsible for an emerging set of requirements on something called the Product Backlog. They are responsible for elucidating these requirements as needed, decomposing these requirements on an ongoing basis, changing them to optimize return on investment, and even meeting with development teams frequently to tell them what is needed and to review what they have done. The Product Owner has gone from someone who could blame development if a project failed to someone who is responsible for the success or failure of the project. At Yahoo, this person is called the "single wringable neck."

Agile Thoughts » What is Scrum?

  • In a nutshell, Scrum is a simple approach to the management of complex problems
  • Software development, by its nature, is always concerned with the creation of “new product”
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