Concept ยท Agile & Software Development

Scrum Framework

Origin: Jeff Sutherland & Ken Schwaber

Biological Parallel

Bacterial populations reproduce in discrete generations, each cycle testing variants against current conditions before committing to the next round of replication. Scrum's inspect-adapt loops mirror this iterative evolution: E. coli can complete a generation in 20 minutes, sampling fitness and adjusting gene expression before the next sprint. The framework structures variation and selection into repeatable cycles, exactly as evolutionary processes partition time into discrete generations.