Scrum is a methodology to help teams work together. Just as a sports team prepares for a decisive game (by the way, scrum is an element of rugby), a team of employees should learn from the experience, learn self-organization principles while working on a problem, and analyze their successes and failures in order to continuously improve. Scrum facilitates this.

Scrum is most often used by application development teams, but the principles and experiences can be applied to any kind of teamwork. This is one of the reasons the methodology is so popular. Scrum is often presented as an Agile project management platform. Scrum team members hold meetings, use specific tools, and take on specific roles to organize and manage their work.