Which one of the following statements about the history of Scrum is NOT correct?
The idea of Scrum was derived from a “rugby” approach, in which “a team tries to go the distance as a unit,
passing the ball back and forth.”
Takeuchi and Nonaka proposed that product development should be like a sequential relay race.
Scrum was based on a flexible and all-inclusive product development strategy where the development
team works as a unit to reach a common goal.
Takeuchi and Nonaka based their approach on manufacturing case studies from various industries.
Takeuchi and Nonaka proposed that product development should not be like a sequential relay race, but
rather should be analogous to the game of rugby where the team works together, passing the ball back and
forth as they move as a unit down the field. The rugby concept of a “Scrum” (where a group of players form
together to restart the game) was introduced in this article to describe the authors’ proposal that product
development should involve “moving the Scrum downfield”.
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