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.