What’s the difference between Scrum and Agile?

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Jeff Sutherland, Inventor and Co-Creator of Scrum

Answered Mar 30, 2020 · Author has 94 answers and 475.5k answer views

At the Agile Manifeso Meeting in 2001 we wrote a set of 4 values backed up by

a dozen principles. This is Agile.

There were 3 experts on Scrum present and 4 founders of eXtreme

Programming. These were the only two widely deployed processes. They are
related because the founders of both processes were communicating in the
internet newsgroups as they were formed and reusing ideas from one another as
early as 1994.

The other experts at the meeting had written books and papers on more adaptive
and flexible development processes to replace the Rational Unified Process
which was dominant at the time in software, but too heavyweight.

So Scrum and XP are the parents of Agile which is not a framework or an

operational implementation. The operational implementation of Agile in over
80% of teams today is some variant of Scrum. The fastest teams implement XP
practices inside the Scrum.

An extremely important XP practice implemented in the first Scrum teams is

continuous integration multiple times per day and deployment at least once a
sprint if not multiple times a day. The DevOps movement has evolved to
promote this practice which was part of the original Scrum and XP teams.

Over 50% of “Agile” teams cannot deliver at the end of a sprint and are late,
over budget, with unhappy customers according to Standish Group data on
hundreds of thousands of projects. So beware of fake Agile.