Rational Scrum™

Rational Scrum™ is a methodology for developing products. It was born out of the realization that existing methodologies are largely either too complex or not complete enough for emerging software and hardware projects. Rational Scrum™ delivers an agile-based methodology that’s been successful time and again at our clients. It puts effective, substantive core principles together to ensure efficiency, eliminate risk, and safeguard quality.

Anyone seeking an effective, easily adopted methodology that is suitable for large-scale, global projects can put Rational Scrum™ to use.

Best In Class Guidance

Rational Scrum™ is risk driven and quality focused, eliminating project threats early, preventing problems, and finding solutions before they become endemic or “baked in” to your product.

It is an easy to adopt methodology, borrowing important, critical processes from mature processes, but still keeping an agile core. Rational Scrum™ ensures that your project and your team will:

• Achieve effective business-to-technology planning and communication
• Accurately capture and manage requirements
• Successfully manage and control change
• Really know how the project is doing as measured against its goals
• Assess the quality and readiness of your product
• Guarantee quality, and delivering what your customer really wants
• Achieve continuous improvement throughout the project

Efficient. Agile. Easy.

Rational Scrum™ is an “agile” methodology, meaning it emphasizes efficiency of process and avoids complex, bulky activities for the sake of activity. It’s iterative in nature, drawing on the best features of Scrum and other proven methodologies, such as the Rational Unified Process™.

But unlike other methodologies that focus entirely on short-term goals, Rational Scrum™ is a complete methodology that addresses the entire Product Life Cycle, from inception and planning through to delivery, operations and transition.

The core principles of Rational Scrum™ pay close attention to problem areas for small- and mid-size companies, implementing just the right level of process at just the right time to avoid problems. Combined with Hyrax International LLC’s long experience in multiple industries, Rational Scrum™ arms you for success.

Rational Scrum™ delivers a simple solution. A methodology that’s light on process — but borrows the most important elements from every methodology, such as putting quality assurance front-and-center to all operations. It’s easy to adopt — because it’s flexible and accommodates starting small and growing. And it’s familiar — using easy-to-use Scrum terminology with a light sprinkling of traditional vernacular.

Risk Driven, Quality Focused

Rational Scrum™ is risk driven, eliminating threats to the project early in the development lifecycle. This means no surprises late in the game. Development tackles the hard-to-solve problems before easier ones, so the tough problems are solved first, mature the most, and get the most testing.

Rational Scrum™ focuses on quality early and often, introducing assessment and monitoring of all project activities from inception. A sound quality assurance program focuses on core principles, preventing problems, and finding solutions before they become endemic or “baked in” to your product, your team or your organization. Rational Scrum™ makes quality assurance a part of everyday activities, so your team isn’t thinking about how to find problems, they’re fixing them automatically.

If you’d like to learn more about Rational Scrum™, just ask. If you’re already a member of Project Masters™, key principles of Rational Scrum™ will be introduced periodically as key lessons.

The Track Record

We defined United Future’s Enterprise software division and directed Yoostar™, delivering the 2-year multivendor project on time for worldwide launch with Best Buy and Harrods. At Practice Technologies, Rational Scrum™ delivered a smoothly executing multinational development team, turning out new legal work product tools on schedule every six months and lowered costs by $1.8M per year. At Xerox, Rational Scrum™ was at the heart of technology innovation that led to Xerox® Sentinel™ and lowered customer care costs by 70% worldwide. Take a look at our case studies to learn more.

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