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I recently attended Jeff Sutherland's Scrum Master Certification course. In the
course, Jeff described Scrum as the alignment of teams. In reality this really made
sense. Regardless of what technical phase a team is in (Forming, Storming, Norming,
or Performing) the key is truly align every team member so that their work is concentrated
in the same direction. I think most teams get so involved in the technical aspects
of Scrum that they miss the point. Like any process, Scrum requires constant discipline.
It's this discipline that make teams fail or succeed.
Scrum breaks projects into short development cycles called sprints
(usually 1 to 4 weeks long). Then software is built incrementally by adding new
functionalities in each iteration, whereas in traditional software projects, complete
software is built in one-go.
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