Scrum has received a lot of press and results. And yet, many still don't know the essentials of it. This page is designed to give you a quick set of resources to come up to speed quickly.

There are four quick resources on this page to provide a Scrum primer:

Scrum Defined

Ken Schwaber explains Scrum to Google

Jeff Southerland reviews lessons learned from Scrum at Google

Mary Poppendieck on Software Development Leadership

In addition, I highly recommend the Scrum Alliance become a regular resource, especially the Glossary of Scrum Terms

Wikipedia defines Scrum as an iterative incremental process of software development commonly used with Agile software develoment.

October 8, 2007

Google Tech Talk: Excellent presentation that defines and applies Scrum. 

Ken Schwaber

December 11, 2007

Google Tech Talk - Lessons learned from Scrum implementation at Google

Jeff Southerland

June 19, 2008

Google Tech Talk: The Role of Leadership in Software Development

Mary Poppendieck

When you look around, there are a lot of leaders recommended for software development. We have the functional manager and the project manager, the scrum master and the black belt, the product owner and the customer-on-site, the technical leader and the architect, the product manager and the chief engineer.

Clearly that's too many leaders. So how many leaders should there be, what should they do, what shouldn't they do, and what skills do they need? This is a presentation and discussion of leadership roles in software development -- what works, what doesn't and why.