Introduction To Scrum Methodology

First steps towards the Scrum Methodology were taken in the year 1986, by 2 Japanese experts of commercial product development - Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka. They published an article - "New Product Development Game" in the Harvard Business Review. (Yes 2 News!)

Interestingly, the Total Quality Management (TQM) came out of the manufacturing industry and so did Agile and Scrum. Hirotaka and Ikujiro referred numerous use cases from the automotive and printer manufacturing firms. And another striking similarity - the very evident Japanese connection again!

Through their research they ascertained that – small, self-organizing teams fed with clear objectives and when given the freedom to develop their own execution strategy are proven to be highly successful in achieving their goals – quality products and services!

Read the full Article at Orangescrum Tutorial page