What is Scrum?

Scrum is a framework used to increase productivity, collaboration, and accountability within a team. West Salem High School's Robotics utilizes Scrum to complete tasks on the way to creating a working bot.

Companies like Yahoo, ADP, Xerox, IBM, Bose, Microsoft, HP, and Sun Microsystems use Scrum

The parts of a successful scrum framework include:

Sprint Planning

- This is when the team agrees to the tasks that they plan to achieve during the upcoming sprint. Officially, the list of tasks--also known as a sprint backlog--is a closed list. This provides the team with the psychological benefit of seeing a shrinking pile rather than an ever growing stack of features and bugs. It provides an achievable short term goal allowing the long term to work out naturally.

Daily Scrum Meeting

- This is a meeting between the team in which each person shares what they last accomplished, what they intend to accomplish next, and what is in the way of success. It lays out all of the goals and issues for the day.

Sprint Review

- The team presents what it has been able to accomplish during the sprint.

Sprint Retrospective

- The whole team discusses the dynamics of the team. They address what went well, what didn't, and how those issues can be fixed for the next sprint. It's a review of how the team worked together.