Running Agile

Scrum is an agile process to manage and control software development. Scrum embraces change, empowers the team and provides transparency to stakeholders. The Product Owner engages in ongoing dialogs with the team to build the most valuable features. The Team demonstrates these running, tested features to stakeholders in regular, short increments. Scrum follows a simple set of rules and places responsibility on the whole team to deliver. The Facilitator coaches the team to self-organize and optimize their output. The Facilitator shields the team from external distractions by working with the Product Owner to insure that stakeholders understand the value of a prioritized and emergent product backlog of features.  Scrum ruthlessly exposes problems and impediments within the Team and in the organization as a whole, and requires commitment at all levels to succeed.