How different is Scrum practice from Agile Practice

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Mostly people say Scrum and Agile interchangeably but what is the difference between Scrum Practice as compared to Agile Practice

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Scrum comes under bigger umbrella called Agile. Kanban, eXtreme Programming (XP), Lean are said to come under Agile too.

My personal experience is: there is no separate word called "Agile Practice". Best practices exercised in SCRUM, XP may be cumulatively called as Agile Practice.

The following practices are visible in both XP and SCRUM, hence in Agile.

User Story as Client requirement
Pair Programming
Test Driven Development (TDD)
Team based estimation
Refactoring
Simple Design
Evolutionary Design
Retrospective
Daily Stand up meeting
Continuous Integration of code
Client Demo etc.

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Agile and SCRUM are related but distinct  Agile describes a set of guiding principles for building software through iterative development  Agile principles are best described in the Agile Manifesto  SCRUM is a specific set of rules to follow when practicing agile software development

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Agile is commonly regarded as an umbrella term  Scrum Kanban are executions of Agile guiding principles from a project management perspective  whereas eXtreme Programming  XP  focuses on the engineering practices e g   Unit Testing  Continuous Integration  Pair Programming etc    Typically  Agile   Scrum   XP

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Agile is a platform and scrum is a methodology to follow  Scrum recommends certain practices to be followed  Some of the basic scrum practices are following    Fixed length Scrum Releases  Suggested meeting Structures  Release planning meeting  Sprint planning meeting  Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective meetings  Scrum also recommends roles  Following are the roles recommended by Scrum    - Scrum Master  - Developer Team  - Product Owner    The Scrum  just like other Agile methodologies follow iterative approach    Following are some other Agile methodologies    Extreme Programming  Agile unified process Dynamic System Development Method  DSDM  Feature Driven Development  FDD  Lean Software Development Kanban Scrum-ban   There are many scrum tool in the market  Yodiz is one of them that we use

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Scrum is a type of Agile method just like an apple is a type of fruit  Scrum is not the only Agile method though  The popular ones are    Scrum eXtreme Programming  XP  Kanban   I m sure there are more Agile methods but these are what I have experience with

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Agile is a general philosophy regarding software production  Scrum is an implementation of that philosophy pertaining specifically to project management

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As mentioned Agile is a set of principles about how a methodology should be implemented to achieve the benefits of embracing change  close co-operation etc   These principles address some of the project management issues found in studies such as the Chaos Report by the Standish group   Agile methodologies are created by the development and supporting teams to meet the principles   The methodology is made to fit the business and changed as appropriate   SCRUM is a fixed set of processes to implement an incremental development methodology   Since the processes are fixed and not catered to the teams it cannot really be considered agile in the original sense of focus on individuals rather than processes

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Comparision of Agile to Scrum is similar to comparision of organism to one organ    Scrum suggests the way of management while it doesn t prescribe everything what is necessary to do to be able to react fast on changes  Only by adding other agile techniques like continuous integration  extreme programming  test driven development your teams will be able to deliver products not just fast  but also product that customer wants with great quality

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As is mentioned  Agile is a methodology  and there are various ways to define what agile is  To a large extent  if it involves constant unit testing and the ability to quickly adapt when the business needs change then it is probably agile   The opposite is the waterfall method   There are various implementations that are codified by consultants  such as Xtremem Programming  Scrum and RUP  Rational Unified Process    So  if you are using Scrum then you can switch between agile and scrum depending on if you are talking about the methodology or your implementation   You will want to see if the terms are being used correctly  by the context   For example  if I am talking about the 15 min standup as part of my agile process  that is not necessarily needed to be agile  but scrum almost requires it  so when you interchange the terms  it is important to differentiate between the two concepts

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Agile is not a methodology  embracing the agile manifesto means adopting a particular philosophy about software development   Within that philosophical perspective  there are many processes and practices   Scrum is a set of practices that follow agile principles   Many people grab onto the practices and processes without embracing  or even understanding  the underlying philosophy and they often end up with gorillarinas

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Scrum falls under the umbrella of Agile  Agile isn t Scrum but Scrum is Agile  At least that s the way PMI sees it  They are coming out with their own certification  See Agile Exam Questions

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Agile is the practice and Scrum is the process to following this practice same as eXtreme Programming  XP  and Kanban are the alternative process to following Agile development practice

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Scrum is a very specific set of practices   Agile describes a family of practices  everything from Extreme Programming to Scrum and almost anything else that uses short iterations can claim Agile   That may not have originally been the case when the term was coined  but it certainly is by now

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