What do product people do in a Scrum process?

How do they contribute and what do they deliver?

Scrum takes its name from rugby, where a scrum is where a mini-team of players huddle together to push their opponents and take control of the ball. In a product delivery sense it is a framework that helps teams work together, encouraging close working, focused attention and continuous improvement.

I like it as an approach as it maintains focus on the goals at hand and aims to remove any obstructions that might get in the way of this. But what’s it all about and what does this mean for a product manager?

There is often confusion between scrum and agile, with many thinking they are interchangeable, most likely because scrum is focused on continuous improvement, and this is a core principle of agile. However, scrum is a framework for getting work done, where agile is a mindset.

The framework has artifacts and ceremonies that keep the team focused on their delivery.

Artifacts

Ceremonies

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