Scrum has brand recognition and greater visibility. Chances are, if you're not involved in project management, you can't name more than a couple of flavors of agile or describe how they are different. Even if you are in project management, it's not a guarantee you can explain what makes XP different from Scrum.
It's not really a surprise, though. How many people (that pay attention to it) think that "waterfall" describes a single approach to managing projects? Most of the time, management is more interested in results than how you got them; it doesn't matter if you used waterfall, scrum, SAFE, DSDM, Prince2, or whatever approach, as long as you deliver. Saving Changes...
can you explain what you mean by "method"? Folks might be interpreting that as "methodology" and if so, then Scrum is the most commonly implemented (and hybridized!) agile delivery methodology.
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Stéphane ParentSelf Employed / Semi-retired| Leader MakerPrince Edward Island, Canada
For better or worse, Scrum has garnered the lion's share of the IT's mindset when it comes to agile frameworks.
Just like people say Kleenex for a paper tissue, IT will talk about sprints, user stories, product backlog and use other Scrum terms.
Part of the reason is becase Scrum is easy and inexpensive to learn. You can become a Certified Scrum Master (CSM) in two days! Obviously there are certifications for higher levels of proficiency. But it's been rather easy to get people trained. This allowed Scrum to achieve a critical mass no other framework has. Saving Changes...
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