One of the most popular agile frameworks is scrum. The holy trinity of scrum is the team, the events, and the artefacts. Amen. The team works on the artefacts while following the events. A sprint is planned by crafting a sprint backlog, that is worked on by the team during the sprint, and after the sprint a review of what was done is held and a retro of how the team operated during the sprint is kept. And then repeat.
Meanwhile a visionary, the product owner, keeps a product backlog neat and tidy, making sure what is done next is the most valuable thing to do. The product backlog is then used as the input for the sprint planning.
Simple, right? In an ideal world, the outcome of scrum would be a working, evolving, product that is created by a small team, with intimate interaction with the customers. After all, scrum is an iterative and incremental framework.
What about in practice? We’ll get back to that in some later posts.