Method for small, multidisciplinary teams working on product-centric projects, based on principles of agile development. Much work relates to software projects, but it is used for other projects: hardware design, managing exhibits in museum. IT Wales.
Article on how author helped a team successfully transition to Scrum by letting the team self-organize and discover solutions to their problems; forum comments; by Alicia Yanik. StickyMinds.com.
Article on how game developer won award for HR programs, organization performance, and employee satisfaction; used Scrum to avoid usual negative game development culture, made hit games (e.g., Darkwatch); forum comments. GameDev.Net.
Program managers can learn from the new agile methods, too: Scrum and Extreme Project Management use close quarters, communication and discrete goal-setting to create highly effective project plans. Dr. Dobb's.
Article introduces Scrum agile software development process, presents methods on how software development teams can add Scrum ideas to extant RUP environment. IBM developerWorks.