{"id":187,"date":"2023-12-07T09:40:05","date_gmt":"2023-12-07T14:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/john2011\/?p=187"},"modified":"2023-12-21T08:32:42","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T13:32:42","slug":"the-origin-of-scrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/john2011\/john_aghadiuno\/2023\/the-origin-of-scrum.html","title":{"rendered":"The Origin of Scrum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"ember1021\" class=\"ember-view reader-content-blocks__paragraph\">Although Scrum was first used to describe Agile content in 1986 in the Harvard Business Review, the term originates from the internationally loved sport, rugby. In rugby, a \u201cscrum\u201d involves players huddling closely together with their heads down while trying to gain possession of the ball. Then, the players work together in order to achieve their shared goal: to get the ball across the line and score!<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember1022\" class=\"ember-view reader-content-blocks__paragraph\">The original Harvard Business Review paper, written by Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka and titled &#8220;<strong>The New Product Development Game<\/strong>&#8220;, introduces Scrum in the chapter \u201c<strong>Moving the Scrum downfield<\/strong>.\u201d Throughout the paper, the authors continue to point out which characteristics of a team help to move the Scrum downfield.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember1023\" class=\"ember-view reader-content-blocks__paragraph\">Original full article:<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/1986\/01\/the-new-new-product-development-game\">https:\/\/hbr.org\/1986\/01\/the-new-new-product-development-game<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although Scrum was first used to describe Agile content in 1986 in the Harvard Business Review, the term originates from the internationally loved sport, rugby. In rugby, a \u201cscrum\u201d involves players huddling closely together with their heads down while trying to gain possession of the ball. Then, the players work together in order to achieve &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/john2011\/john_aghadiuno\/2023\/the-origin-of-scrum.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Origin of Scrum&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8553,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/john2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/john2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/john2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/john2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8553"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/john2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/john2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/john2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions\/188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/john2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/john2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/john2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}