The first Scrum team was at a Boston company called Easel Corporation in 1993. Under the advice of Jeff Sutherland, this team created a modern development framework that included a dynamic object-oriented programming language, among many other cutting-edge components. The team was cross-functional, collocated, and never exceeded eight people in size.
This is small Scrum. By now you probably have a good grip on how to do small Scrum. When it's one team to one backlog, that's a pretty easy existence, one called simple, or small. As long as the product backlog is kept in a ready state, teams can pull the next item. Small Scrum can also be described as the basic Scrum framework applied in its pure form with no modifications. However, I bet that even Easel made modifications, because, as we'll explore later in this chapter, they simply were Agile, not just doing Agile. Modifications come easily, naturally, and sensibly to those who live the mantra of inspect and adapt.
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