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5 unusual facts about Scrum


Disciplined Agile Delivery

DAD builds on the many practices espoused by advocates of Agile Software Development, including Scrum, Agile Modeling, Lean Software Development, and others.

Planbox

Planbox also handles Impediment Management, and Impediment Removal Teams (IRT), a term coined by Joe Little, one of Scrum's fathers.

Scrum

Autozam Scrum, a microvan and pickup truck sold in Japan by Mazda

Media scrum, an impromptu press conference, often held immediately outside an event such as a legislative session or meeting

Scrum pattern, defines a specific problem an IT team development may encounter throughout the life-cycle of an application


Andy Mulligan

Andrew (Andy) Armstrong Mulligan, (4 February 1936, Kasauli, a small cantonment town in Solan district in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh – 24 February 2001) was a rugby union international who captained Ireland and the British & Irish Lions, playing at scrum-half.

Florin Surugiu

He played three Tests at the World Cup, one as a substitute against Scotland and two in the scrum-half position against Argentina and Georgia.

Fumiaki Tanaka

After initially being limited to mainly to substitute appearances behind All Blacks scrum half Aaron Smith, in Tanaka's second start in Super Rugby he was highly praised for his performance against the Blues which even drew praise from the IRB CEO Brett Gosper.

Harold Snell

Snell, a scrum-half, was born in Newcastle, New South Wales and claimed a total of 3 international rugby caps for Australia.

Jacques Fouroux

He made his international debut in 1972 although it took him another four years to become a regular starter, as he was in competition with another, more sober, scrum-half Richard Astre of Béziers.

Jerrold Schwaber

His brother, Ken Schwaber, is a software developer involved in the invention the Scrum development process.

Joggie Viljoen

Viljoen, a native of South Africa's Eastern Cape Province, currently resides in New Zealand and is the first choice scrum-half for Manawatu in the NPC.

Mike Wilner

On June 1, 2010, Mike Wilner got into an argument during a media scrum with the Toronto Blue Jays manager Cito Gaston about Gaston's field level decision making.

Organizational patterns

In this vein, the first ScrumPLoP conference took place in Sweden in May, 2010, sanctioned by both the Scrum Alliance and the Hillside Group.

Peter de Villiers

He played scrum-half during the apartheid era, when the Springboks faced widespread international boycotts as the face of the white minority government, including exclusion from in the first two Rugby World Cup tournaments in 1987 and 1991.

Scrum pattern

By formalizing empirical experiences into best practices to form the Scrum framework, this movement has been accelerated, particularly after October 2011 when Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland released "The Scrum Guide, The Definitive Guide to Scrum: The Rules of the Game".

Ideally, the entire core Scrum should be implemented, then instead of picking-up randomly any Scrum artifact and implement it, the usage of Lean software development, specifically the Kaizen (i.e. in Japanese "philosophy of improvement"), one could quickly increase a team's velocity in a structured manner with low efforts but high Return on investment.

Sheffield Tigers RUFC

The arrival of former England and Halifax RLFC scrum half David Holmes spearheaded a new era and the club reached the final of the Tetley Bitter Vase at Twickenham in 2000, securing a 20-11 win over favourites Bank of England RUFC in the Final and despite finishing second in the League, a restructure meant that they remained in Yorkshire 2 as all 10 clubs below them were relegated!

Simon Amor

Simon Daniel Edward Amor (born 25 April 1979 in Kingston upon Thames) is an English rugby union footballer who plays at scrum-half or fly-half for London Scottish and is a former captain of the England Sevens team.

Stuart Commins

He plays scrum half for the Premiership club, after moving from Northampton Saints at the end of the 2011/2012 Season.


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