Scrum
The Practical Adoption of Agile Methodologies, APM Volunteer Research report, published by the Association for Project Management (APM) in May 2015, describes Scrum as: ‘An iterative and incremental agile development framework for software projects.’
The Association for Project Management (APM) Agile Glossary defines a scrum as an: ‘agile methodology commonly used in software development, where regular team meetings review progress of a single development phase (or Sprint).’
It defines a daily scrum as a: '...stand-up team meeting. A plan, do, review daily session.'
LeSS as a large-scale scrum.
Scrum of scrums as: 'a technique to operate Scrum at scale, for multiple teams working on the same product.'
And scrum master as: 'the person who oversees the development process and who makes sure everyone adheres to an agreed way of working.'
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