Achieve Better UX with the Utmost Flexibility Provided by Scrum

Do you know anything about Scrum? In case you don’t, it’s an iterative and incremental agile software development framework for managing software projects and product or application development.

It defines "a flexible, holistic product development strategy where a development team works as a unit to reach a common goal". It challenges assumptions of the "traditional, sequential approach" to product development. Scrum enables teams to self-organize by encouraging physical co-location or close online collaboration of all team members and daily face to face communication among all team members and disciplines in the project.

Whether you are acknowledged with the framework or just want to get acquainted with it, the book by Pieter Jongerius may turn out to be a useful resource in both cases. The main principle of Scrum lies in its recognition that customers can change their minds about what they want and need to get at the end, and that unpredicted challenges cannot be easily addressed in a traditional predictive or planned manner.

Scrum adopts an empirical approach. It accepts that the problem cannot be fully understood or defined, focusing instead on maximizing the team's ability to deliver quickly and respond to emerging requirements. Scrum is a project management tool that enables people with different skills strategize together and this manual will be useful for everyone who works on interactive products in design and development environment. It contains all basic information necessary for getting started with the project management method Scrum, but also offers a number of in-depth chapters looking at topics which even the most experienced Scrummers have trouble with on daily basis.

Source: Get Agile!: Scrum for UX, Design & Development