If you are one of those software developers, then you could well have understood and accepted the vast popularity of Scrum usage by software development teams. It's the most popular agile methodology. As per the latest 12th annual State of an Agile report, approximately 70% of software teams are making the use of Scrum or a Scrum hybrid. However, another critical aspect that we must also note is that the Scrum has also spread to various other business functions that also include marketing. Besides this, nowadays, leadership teams are also founding their agile management practices based on Scrum, along with the proper combination of lean and Kanban methods. 

Relationship of Scrum to Agile Project Management

Many are still not sure about how Scrum fits into a relationship with Agile project management. Generally, Scrum can be considered as a sub-group of agile:

•    Agile is nothing but a set of values or principles that illustrate any team’s or a group's daily interactions and actions that are required to be performed.

•    The Scrum methodology helps in following the values of agile, but at the same time also includes more specifications, especially concerning certain software development practices.

Although Scrum has been developed for agile software development, at the same time it has become the most favored framework and very often referred to as Scrum development.

Benefits Organizations Gained from the Scrum Methodology

Some of the recent researches have clearly showed that organizations that have accepted agile Scrum have experienced the following key benefits:

• Greater productivity
• Good-quality products
• Improved stakeholder satisfaction
• Better and effective team dynamics
• Satisfied employees

Why Scrum Project Management Methods?

It is important to understand that Scrum helps in addressing the complexity of any project or task required to be performed by making information transparent. Consequently, individuals involved in the project can inspect or may even adapt based on current circumstances. In fact, with Scrum methodology, it has become a lot easier to address the most common pitfalls of a waterfall development process like confusion arising because of many changing requirements; sarcasm of time, resources and cost; and incorrect reporting about the process.

Scrum project management focuses more on the transparency of standard terms, and thus ensures that every task that got delivered matches well to its expectation. Regular inspection further ensures about the development and even identifies the alterations (if any) early on so that changes can be made.

Organizations could well take advantage of freedom based on the simple set of practices that Scrum advocates.

Scrum obliges on the requirement of a knowledgeable Product Owner who is available to the team. However, it has been found that many organizations skip this as they at times see it a lot more complicated to search for a suitable person. Product Owner is an individual having a thorough knowledge of the product’s business value.

Scrum is a framework, and the organizations could well move forward. The Scrum Master eases the work of the Scrum team. A Scrum Master is unbiased, and in most of the occasions makes sure that the Scrum team lives by the real practices of Scrum. Leveraging an organization by having Scrum master even helps in removing disorders to progress, and work properly to keep the product backlog properly and ready for the next sprint.

Thus, by now, if you’re giving serious thought about adopting agile Scrum, get yourself aware of significant advantages like visibility to see the progress of project all over its lifespan, frequent check-ins, and updates.

You must not forget that in the United States alone, approx. 122 million dollars get wasted for every billion capitalized on projects. Though agile Scrum can’t provide you assurance about your project’s financial viability, it can prevent other issues like proper management of time, deliverables and resources. Try to prepare your team by making use of the right tools, and you’ll have every chance to develop expected results with Agile Scrum.