What is Scrum in Agile?

What Is Agile Methodology?

Agile methodology is a practice that helps continuous iteration of development
and testing in the SDLC process. Agile breaks the product into smaller builds.

In this methodology, development and testing activities are concurrent, unlike

other software development methodologies. It also encourages teamwork and
face-to-face communication. Business, stakeholders, and developers and
clients must work together to develop a product.

What is Scrum in Agile?

Scrum in Agile is a process that allows software development teams to focus
on delivering business values in shortest time by rapidly and repeatedly
inspecting actual working software. It focuses on accountability, teamwork and
iterative progress towards well-defined goals. Scrum Framework usually deals
with fact that requirements are likely to change or mostly not known at the
beginning of project.

KEY DIFFERENCE
 Agile is a continuous iteration of development and testing in the
software development process whereas Scrum is an Agile process to
focus on delivering the business value in the shortest time.
 Agile methodology delivers the software on a regular basis for feedback
while Scrum delivers the software after each sprint.
 In the Agile process, leadership plays a vital role; on the other hand,
Scrum fosters a self-organizing, cross-functional team.
 Agile involves collaborations and face-to-face interactions between the
members of various cross-functional teams whereas Scrum
collaboration is achieved in daily stand up meetings.
 In Agile process design and execution should be kept simple whereas in
Scrum process design and execution can be innovative and
experimental.

Agile Vs. Scrum

Agile Scrum
Agile is a development methodology
based on iterative and incremental
approach.
Agile software development has
been widely seen as highly suited to
environments which have small but
expert project development team
In the Agile process,
the leadership plays a vital role.
Compared to Scrum it is a
more rigid method. So there is not
much room for frequent changes.
Agile involves collaborations and
face-to-face interactions between the
members of various cross-functional
teams.
Agile can require lots of up-front
development process and
organizational change.
The agile method needs frequent
delivery to the end user for their
feedback.
In this method, each step of
Scrum is one of the implementations
of agile methodology. In
which incremental builds are
delivered to the customer in every
two to three weeks' time.
Scrum is ideally used in the project
where the requirement
is rapidly changing.
Scrum fosters a self-organizing,
cross-functional team.
The biggest advantage of Scrum is
its flexibility as it quickly reacts to
changes.
In Scrum, collaboration is achieved
in daily stand up meeting with a
fixed role assigned to scrum master,
product owner, and team members.
Not too many changes needed
while implementing scrum process.
In the scrum, after each sprint,
a build is delivered to the client for
their feedback.
A demonstration of the functionality
development like requirements, is provided at the end of every sprint.
analysis, design, are continually So that regular feedback can be
monitored during the lifecycle. taken before next sprint.

Project head takes cares of all the There is no team leader, so

tasks in the agile method. the entire team addresses the
issues or problems.

The Agile method encourages Daily sprint meeting is conducted

feedback during the process from to review and feedback to decide
the end user. In this way, the end future progress of the project.
product will be more useful.

Deliver and update the software on When the team is done with

a regular basis. the current sprint activities, the
next sprint can be planned.

Design and execution should be Design and execution can

kept simple. be innovative and experimental.

In the Agile method, the priority is Empirical Process Control is a

always to satisfy the customer by core philosophy of Scrum based
providing continuous delivery of process.
valuable software.

Working software is the Working software is not an

most elementary measure of elementary measure.
progress.

It is best to have face-to-face Scrum team focus to

communication, and techniques deliver maximum business value,
like these should be used to get as from beginning early in the project
close to this goal as possible. and continuing throughout.
Following are Agile principles:
-Welcome changing requirements,
even late in development. Agile
processes allow change according
to customer's competitive
advantage.
-Business people and developers
will work daily throughout the
project.
-Attention to technical
excellence and right design
enhances agility
-Agile team, work on to become
more effective, for that they adjust
its behavior according to the
project.
Following are scrum principles:
-Self-organization: This results in
healthier shared ownership among
the team members. It is also an
innovative and creative environment
which is conducive to growth.
-Collaboration: Collaboration is
another essential principle which
focuses collaborative work. 1.
awareness 2. articulation, and 3.
appropriation. It also considers
project management as a shared
value-creation process with teams
working together to offer the highest
value.
-Time-boxing: This principle defines
how time is a limiting constraint in
Scrum method. An important
element of time-boxed elements are
Daily Sprint planning and Review
Meetings.
-Iterative Development: This
principle emphasizes how to
manage changes better and build
products which satisfy customer
needs. It also defines the
organization's responsibilities
regarding iterative development.