In 1993, at Easel Corporation in 1993, we we first applied the Scrum process to software development teams when we built the first object-oriented design and analysis (OOAD) tool that incorporated round-trip engineering. In a Smalltalk development environment, code was autogenerated from a graphic design tool, and any changes to the code from the Smalltalk integrated development environment (IDE) were immediately reflected back into design.

Since the product was directed toward enterprise software development, we spent a lot of time analyzing best practices in software development methodologies.

Author: Dr. Jeff Sutherland
Published: October 2004