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Back in July, I wrote about the creation of the official Scrum guide or ScrumBOK that is to represent "the official Scrum Body Of Knowledge, (that) was written by Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland, co-creators of Scrum" A new announcement has just come out where the implementors of Scrum are encouraged to read, modify and extend the ScrumBOK. As they accounce:
""Scrum was first developed 15+ years ago, and it has been evolving and adapting ever since. Informed by their experiences and those of the Scrum community, Jeff and Ken have carefully codified the framework in the Scrum Guide, which documents the basic rules, artifacts, and events of Scrum.
Today's announcement marks a new era in Scrum's evolution by making available a public mechanism for providing feedback on the Scrum Guide and a model for proposing extensions to the basic framework."
This again is similar to PMI's encouragement to extend the PMBOK as I mentioned in a discussion forum post back around the same time. Through the Agile community typically shuns formal frameworks and processes, the popularity of Agile and Scrum seems to have compelled a need to establish a formal body of knowledge and process for those who wish to contribute to future modifications as well as extending the ScrumBOK to suit their industry and domain of specialty. The latter is promising for those who wish to extend Scrum beyond the software industry to which it is mostly applied.
Scrum was first developed 15+ years ago, and it has been evolving and adapting ever since. Informed by their experiences and those of the Scrum community, Jeff and Ken have carefully codified the framework in the Scrum Guide, which documents the basic rules, artifacts, and events of Scrum.
Today's announcement marks a new era in Scrum's evolution by making available a public mechanism for providing feedback on the Scrum Guide and a model for proposing extensions to the basic framework.
Posted on: October 09, 2011 05:28 PM |
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