Agile Scrum Fundamentals

Agile is a family of delivery approaches that build a product in short iterations, each producing something usable, so that plans are corrected by what was learned rather than defended against it.

Scrum is a lightweight framework for delivering complex work in fixed-length iterations called sprints, with three accountabilities, five events and three artefacts, defined in a short public guide.

A sprint is a fixed-length iteration of one month or less in which a team plans a goal, builds a usable increment toward it, shows the result, and reviews how it worked, before the next sprint begins immediately.

A client brief is the short written statement of what a piece of work has to achieve, for whom, and under which fixed constraints, agreed before either side commits to a solution.

A statement of work is the document that commits one bounded piece of work to paper: what gets built, on which assumptions, to what deadline, for what money, and what sits outside it.

Scope creep is the quiet expansion of a priced piece of client work through additions that each look too minor to renegotiate, until what gets delivered is substantially larger than what was sold.