Software companies around the world, specially software companies, are overwhelmed with documentation and inertia of developers towards process documents. If your documentation becomes a hurdle to production effectiveness and developers do not like producing documents, you should think of trying the agile way. Developers like coding not documenting.

A bit of Scrum in 100 words:

• Scrum is an agile process that allows us to focus on delivering the highest business value in the shortest time.
• It allows us to rapidly and repeatedly inspect actual working software (every two weeks to one month).
• The business sets the priorities. Teams self-organize to determine the best way to deliver the highest priority features.
• Every two weeks to a month anyone can see real working software and decide to release it as is or continue to enhance it for another sprint.
  Source: Mountain Goat Software, LLC.

We can fit Scrum to manage your projects in an agile way at almost any point of your project lifecycle. Using Scrum your projects will reach a level that fits your needs in a way not achievable with pure waterfall, spiral, evolutionary models as for the methodology customer collaboration and team commitment are key to the success of any project using Scrum as project management methodology.

The picture below shows the core of the Scrum process (image available at www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/scrum).

Scrum projects make progress in a series of “sprints”, a timeboxed iteration, analogous to the Extreme Programming iterations. The typical duration of this iteration is 2–4 weeks or a calendar month at most. During the sprint, the product is designed, coded, and tested. At the end of each sprint, a series of review and planning meeting take place and after that the team is ready to start over again.

If you want to start using Scrum at any level of your company, contact us and we will get in contact with you in a few hours. Our team is available from 8 AM to 20 PM GMT-4. Do not forget to check the list of our onsite courses. One of them will fit your needs.