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What Makes The Scrum Framework Succeed? This Might Surprise You!

The Scrum Framework changes the classic triangle of project management.

Organizations no longer need to treat quality as a variable to sacrifice. The new triangle balances budget, time, and functionality: scope can adapt so that the team can protect quality while managing delivery goals.

Triangle of Project Management

According to the Scrum framework, quality is no longer optional. To deliver what clients are paying for to flourish their businesses, the Scrum Teams strive to provide the best possible software they're jointly able to build.

In the Scrum framework, the factors which define when a feature is complete and when it meets the required quality standards are set by Definition of Done (DoD). DoDs specify the expected outcome in terms of functional and non-functional requirements, design, coding, unit testing, end-user validations, documentation, and so on. Story acceptance criteria can describe functional and non-functional client requirements, while task checklists clarify the team’s working activities. These support, rather than replace, a common product Definition of Done.

Work that does not meet the product’s Definition of Done is not part of the Increment. Acceptance criteria and task checklists help the team recognize what still needs to be completed. Scrum Product Owner and the Scrum Team define user stories and their tasks throughout the course of the Scrum software engineering process incrementally.

This incremental development allows the team to remain adaptive and adjust their next best actions in a controlled manner without the additional costs and risks of jeopardizing large chunks of previous work.

The Scrum Team builds a potentially shippable software product Increment by the end of each Sprint. The team demonstrates and discusses these increments with the Scrum Product Owner and client stakeholders to get and incorporate their feedback towards the next steps of their project.

This flexibility applies to not only software delivery but also the operational processes. So, the Scrum Framework allows the optimization of the use of resources (human, time, budget, material) and the minimization of wastes.

Studies have shown that Scrum has the following positive effects in practice:

• More frequent code deployments,
• Faster lead time from committing to deploying code,
• Faster mean time to recover from downtime,
• Lower change failure rate,
• Better product quality,
• Reduced or identical costs compared to pre Scrum deployment,
• Improved productivity and throughput,
• Improved code and operational reliability,
• Enhanced organizational performance and client satisfaction,
• Improved market penetration, market share, and profitability of organizations,
• Improved market capitalization growth,
• Improved motivation of employees.

Introducing and adopting the Scrum Framework is non-trivial. And yet, the adaptive and iterative approach of the Scrum Framework handles this initial burden, and it copes with ever-changing client and business requirements better.

Thus, the Scrum Framework is, in most cases, a better alternative to the classical software engineering methodologies.