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    • Value
      • Individuals and interactions
      • Working software
      • Customer collaboration
      • Responding to change
    • Over
      • processes and tools
      • comprehensive documentation
      • contract negotiation
      • following a plan

Intro to Scrum

To understand Scrum, it helps to understand the original Waterfall Model.  The following section shows just some of the challenges with using Waterfall and then delves into the Scrum Model characteristics.

Waterfall Model

The old framework for developing software.  This is characterized by front loading all of the planning to the n-th degree.  Waterfall works for physical products, but is risky for software because of the constantly changing requirements.  As a result, the nature of software prevents knowing the entire plan up front.

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