SCRUM is a Rugby Term

SCRUM empowers teams and enables virtuoso performance

• "Mills proposes that each segment of a large job be tackled by a team, but that the team be organized like a surgical team rather than a hog-butchering team. " Brooks, 1995

"A characteristic of the cybercorp is that virtuoso employees have to be empowered because their managers cannot understand what they are doing." Martin, 1995

References

• Brooks, Frederick P. Jr. The Mythical Man-Month : Essays on Software Engineering. Addison-Wesley, 1995. (20th anniversary edition)
• Martin, James. The Great Transition : Using the Seven Disciplines of Enterprise Engineering to Align People, Technology, and Strategy. Amacom Book Division, 1995.