When I sat down to develop Scrum, I had no intention of creating a new “process.” I simply wanted to gather together all the research that had been done for decades on how people work best and emulate that. I wanted to incorporate best practices and steal any better ideas I came across. Right before the first real Scrum at Easel in 1993 I was working at a company just blocks from the MIT Media Lab, and I stole an idea from the lab that has become the core of Scrum: the Sprint.
