An agile software development methodology developed by Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland in the mid-1990s. Scrum is based on a "Sprint," which is a 30-day period for delivering a working part of the system. Each Sprint starts with a two to three-hour planning session that includes the customer (product owner), the facilitator (ScrumMaster) and the cross-functional team. The customer describes the highest priority in the backlog, and after the team agrees on how much of it to do   read more...

A backlog is a list of prioritized items to be developed for a software product.

An iteration of work during which an increment of product functionality is implemented.

A brief daily meeting or scrum, at which progress is explained, upcoming work is described and impediments are raised.

A brief sprint planning session in which the backlog items for the sprint will be defined.

A brief sprint retrospective, at which all team members reflect about the past sprint.