Scrum in One Picture

Scrum wraps a small cross-functional team around a prioritised backlog and runs it in fixed-length sprints, each producing a usable increment. Everything else is detail on this loop.

Key Concepts

• Scrum = 3 roles + 5 events + 3 artifacts, resting on empiricism
• Empiricism: transparency (see reality), inspection (check often), adaptation (adjust fast)
• Sprints: fixed length (1–4 weeks), no changes that endanger the sprint goal
• Each sprint delivers a potentially releasable increment meeting the Definition of Done
• Scrum is deliberately incomplete — it frames work, teams fill in engineering and domain practice

Try It Yourself

Draw the Scrum loop from memory: 3 roles, 5 events, 3 artifacts around a sprint. Check against the lesson and fix what you missed.