Glossary term
What is Scrum?
In Apex Flow Academy, "Scrum" means: A framework for Agile work with three roles, five events and three artifacts, organized in short fixed periods called sprints. It is taught in Project Management and Agile: Run Projects That Ship. Related terms include Agile, Sprint, Earned value and Product backlog. Every Apex Flow Academy course lists the official sources it checked.
- 1 course teaches it
- plain-word definition
The facts
What is Scrum?
A framework for Agile work with three roles, five events and three artifacts, organized in short fixed periods called sprints.
Where is Scrum taught?
Scrum is defined in Project Management and Agile: Run Projects That Ship.
Which lessons cover Scrum?
These lessons name it in their title or objectives:
- Project Management and Agile: Run Projects That Ship, lesson 5.1: Agile Values and the Scrum Frame at a Glance
- Project Management and Agile: Run Projects That Ship, lesson 5.4: Run the Sprint and Learn from It
- Project Management and Agile: Run Projects That Ship, lesson 6.2: Hybrid Plans: One Frame, Several Ways of Working
Which terms are related to Scrum?
Next to Scrum in the course glossaries: Agile, Sprint, Earned value, Product backlog, Expected monetary value (EMV), User story, Risk and Story points.
AgileSprintEarned valueProduct backlogExpected monetary value (EMV)User storyRiskStory points
The hard questions, answered straight
Bold questions people really ask. Each answer comes from the course data or a settled Academy fact.
Do I need experience before I learn Scrum?
It depends on the course. Each course that teaches it lists its own prerequisites, and all are listed at beginner level:
- Project Management and Agile: Run Projects That Ship: None. You do not need any project management experience.