Scrum is an agile development methodology used in the development of Software based on an iterative and incremental processes. Scrum is adaptable, fast, flexible and effective agile framework that is designed to deliver value to the customer throughout the development of the project. The primary objective of Scrum is to satisfy the customer’s need through an environment of transparency in communication, collective responsibility and continuous progress. The development starts from a general idea of what needs to be built, elaborating a list of characteristics ordered by priority (product backlog) that the owner of the product wants to obtain. [1]

Figure 1. Advantage and disadvantage of Scrum Methodology

Figure 1 shows scrum methodology provides simple light weighted agile project management that enables product teams to build products incrementally in an iterative fashion through effective team collaboration. Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland are co-creators of Scrum and continue to contribute significantly to the evolution of Scrum.

Scrum forms the base for many of the other frameworks and hence it is important for an agile practitioner to understand this methodology. [2]

Advantages of Scrum

• Scrum enables you to create a methodology required for developing complex products. It helps in improving the product quality on an immediate basis.
• It enables you to deliver projects faster to the customers compared to the old methodology as real-time updates are provided when the project is in process.
• It helps to generate required data to calculate the cost and time for the project and taking decisions as and when provided.
• It provides team members to be creative and get to know all the modules of the project.
• It makes it possible to measure the productivity of a programmer as daily meetings are done.
• The cost of managing the project is less as it is quicker to deliver the project. [3]

Disadvantage of using Scrum framework:

• Scrum framework do not allow changes into their sprint.
• Scrum framework is not fully described model. If you wanna adopt it you need to fill in the framework with your own details like Extreme Programming (XP), Kanban, DSDM.
• It can be difficult for the Scrum to plan, structure and organize a project that lacks a clear definition.
• The daily Scrum meetings and frequent reviews require substantial resources. [4]

References:

1. https://www.digite.com/agile/scrum-methodology/
2. https://www.jile.io/agile-basics/scrum-basics
3. https://www.educba.com/what-is-scrum/
4. https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/scrum-software-development/

Cite this article:

Thanusri swetha J (2021), Advantage and disadvantage of Scrum Methodology, Anatechmaz, pp. 34