scrum
IPA: skrˈʌm
noun
- A tightly-packed and disorderly crowd of people.
- (Canada) A tightly packed group of reporters surrounding a person, usually a politician, asking for comments about an issue; an opportunity provided for a politician to be approached this way.
- (rugby) In rugby union or rugby league, all the forwards joined together in an organised way.
- (software engineering) In Agile software development (specifically Scrum or related methodologies), a daily meeting in which each developer describes what they have been doing, what they plan to do next, and any impediments to progress.
- Hostile shoving between two groups.
- (software engineering) An iterative and incremental agile software development method for managing software projects and product or application development.
- (software engineering) Alternative letter-case form of Scrum [(software engineering) An iterative and incremental agile software development method for managing software projects and product or application development.]
verb
- (rugby, intransitive) To form a scrum.
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Examples of "scrum" in Sentences
- His position is as a scrum half.
- He is by preference a scrum half.
- Bunting was a scrum half as a player.
- The same with Scrum half and halfback.
- A number of roles are defined in Scrum.
- It results in a scrum to the opposing team.
- The BULLY is the equivalent of the Scrum in Rugby.
- It results in a scrum with the put in to the opposition.
- It results in a 'scrum' with the put in to the opposition.
- Once the ball has left the hands of the scrum half the scrum has begun.
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