BANGALORE, INDIA: Scrum is agile development framework and is not a methodology, defined process or set of procedures. Scrum is an open development framework with a simple set of rules. It enables an average team to self organize into super talented team that works 10 times more productive than conventional teams. Scrum relies on a self-organizing and cross-functional team. The scrum team is self-managing. The team decides the most important stories to work to make the project successful. Product owner helps in prioritizing the backlog and current sprint.

There are three roles in scrum Product Owner, Scrum Master and Team. The ScrumMaster acts as a facilitator or a coach for the team helping to resolving impediments. The product owner acts as an interface with customers, users and other products. Each Scrum project consists of time boxed sprints for two to four weeks.

At the start of sprint, there is sprint planning meeting. The team looks at priority stories to work on and commit for delivering features at the end of sprint. At the end of sprint in retrospective meeting team demonstrates the features developed to the product owner and customers. This is the fastest way to get feedback and self correct any feature developed.

The ScrumMaster acts as the team’s coach who helps resolve any problems or blocking issues. Main importance is to improve team performance. ScrumMaster does not give direction to the team in creating stories and implementing them. He acts as a facilitator resolving issues as they come. Main job of ScrumMaster is to keep the team focused in working on tasks in hand and not get distracted by outside. Product owner's job is to create a vision for the product which sometimes called product roadmap.