Is Agile and Scrum same? What is Agile and what is Scrum?

Agile is a software development framework that has become popular is last 10-12 years. Agile software development helps in faster software delivery, continuous incremental delivery and faster feedback. 

In February 2001, 17 software professional met at the Snowbird resort in Utah to discuss lightweight development methods. They prepared and published Agile Manifesto for Software Development. As per manifesto any methodology that follow below 4 core values will be considered agile software development methodology.

We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it. Through this work we have come to value:

Individuals and interactions over processes and tools

Working software over comprehensive documentation

Customer collaboration over contract negotiation

Responding to change over following a plan

That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more.

17 people name who signed Agile Manifesto - Kent Beck, James Grenning, Robert C. Martin, Mike Beedle, Jim Highsmith, Steve Mellor, Arie van Bennekum, Andrew Hunt Ken Schwaber, Alistair Cockburn, Ron Jeffries, Jeff Sutherland, Ward Cunningham, Jon Kern, Dave Thomas, Martin Fowler, Brian Marick

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Scrum is most popular approach to achieve agility but Scrum is one the methodology. Other popular methodology is eXtreme Programming (XP), Lean, Kanban and DSDM etc. Beside Scrum, other also becoming popular over the period especially to fill the gap in Scrum process.

Scrum covers 3 roles, 4 ceremonies and 3 artifacts. Scrum doesn't suggest any engineering practices but over the period XP practices has been adopted as a common agile engineering practices. These agile engineering practices becoming more popular after scrum alliance launched Certified Scrum Developer course.

Scrum roles are Product Owner, Scrum Master and Development team. Scrum Ceremonies includes Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective. Scrum Artifacts are Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog and Increment (Potentially Shippable Product).

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