Scrum management is a very famous framework that is very useful for innovative and byzantine product development projects. It helps out in management work often putting more emphasis on software development. The scrum framework still has got some advantages and disadvantages to it. 

But before jumping right into the project one must first understand what it is.

What is the Scrum framework?

• The owner of the product creates a backlog or a wish list of the entire task that is more important in the project.
• The scrum team then conducts a session of sprint plans where all the tasks are divided equally into smaller and manageable chunks.
• Then implementations are planned by creating a sprint backlog.
• Then the decision is taken for the time duration of each sprint. Mostly the time interval is kept for two weeks.
• There is an everyday gathering of the scrum team for a brief meeting. These daily meetings are called as daily stand-up. These are done regularly to keep a check if everything is going well.
• In the daily stand up each member tells of the updates that ultimately help the team and also the project manager for assessing the progress of their project.
• There is one person called the certified scrum master. He/she is chosen by the team itself and their main purpose is to check if all the teammates are working properly or not and to motivate them to complete their works.
• At the very end, the stakeholder and the owner of the product conducts a review.

So this was the cycle of a scrum team that helps in the project development. As one can see that there were in total three roles mentioned above that were- the project owner, the scrum team and the certified scrum master these entirely together have an important role in the exercising of this framework.

Now as the explanation of the scrum framework has been done let’s peep into the pros and cons of it.

Pros of scrum Framework-

Here is the reason why this scrum project management framework of doing projects is soo popular-

• It helps to complete the project quickly and more efficiently.
• If one uses this method they would be able to manage time and also save their money.
• The large and difficult projects are divided into smaller and easily manageable sprints.
• The development can be coded and also tested at the time of the sprint review.
• It is a good choice for faster moving development projects.
• Because of the scrum meeting, all the members get a clear vision.
• The scrum project management is agile and hence adopts feedbacks from the stakeholder and the customers also.
• The short sprints enable the team to make changes based on the feedback they get.
• There is transparency so each member’s efforts are visible during the daily scrum meetings.

These were all the plus points of the scrum project management. No doubts that this a great way of completing projects …

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