About Agile Scrum

Scrum - Agile Project Management Methodology

• Formal management methodology
• Delivers real business advantage
• Lightweight and adaptive

Scrum is a lightweight, Agile project management process. Derived principally from modern manufacturing techniques such as Just in Time, Lean and Total Quality Management it facilitates an adaptive, empirical approach to management.

Scrum utilises 30 day iterations, known as "sprints", to provide a focused goal on which your team can work with minimal external interference; once the sprint requirements are fixed. The premise is that 30 days is sufficient time for your team to focus and deliver significant business advantage, and yet short enough to allow re-alignment between sprints and still meet the business needs.

Only where there is a substantial shift in business strategy would a change be required mid-sprint, but this is not the norm. The formal Scum methodology provides tools and techniques to manage the project.

Sprint planning, prioritised task management, tracking, and communication are provided for.

Scrum In Practice

The above is a description of Scrum that will be very familiar to Scrum practitioners.

The challenge for those that complete the traditional "Scrum Master" course is how the techniques they learn can be put into operation and how they scale up.

This is where IndigoBlue's industry-leading experience can be beneficial:

• To mentor Scrum Masters to take them beyond the course
• To help organisations to adopt Agile in an easily accessible way, building up from pilot projects to roll out Agile across the organisation
• To get the best balance of Agile and Lean for major programmes