A: No. Scrum was initially utilized by Agile Software Development organizations. Scrum's scope was later expanded to "manage any type of work" as the framework was applied beyond pure software development environments.

Agile Product Development provides a larger context of applied Agile to domains beyond software.  XoJom is focusing on this aspect and has applied Agile to complex system and product development, hence the term 'Agile Product Development'. Think of Agile Product Development as a paradigm outlining values, principles, and practices and Srum as (one) base framework to realize an Agile implementation. The values, principles, practices and tools (for example the tool Planning Poker(r) to estimate feature complexity) are in congruence to support the Agile phylosophy. Scrum provides a specific 'process' on how to realize these values and principles. In other words, Scrum says "do it this way" which enable you to operate with increased Agility (flexibility).

Since Scrum is mainly utilized by a software-centric community, you won't find a lot of material on how Scrum is applied to Agile Product Development. Scrum does not specifically address how hardware, firmare, embedded software, and other domains in the vlaue chain are managed and synchronized. That's where XoJom provides training and consulting services to guide companies in applying Agile to the entire value-cahin, not just software. For example, we help our clients define what "potentially shippable increment" means in a hardware world and how software and hardware can utilize a common Agile framework to move in sync towards a common objective. We help our clients utilize, adapt, and scale Agile Product Development based on their needs and corporate environment.

In summary: Agile Product Development utilizes Scrum as one of the core development frameworks. However, we adapt Scrum for the Product Development Enterprise based on the fact that Agile Product Development adresses many different Engineering domains (Hardware, Software, Supply-Chain, Deployment, etc.) as well as governance and non-operations related domains (Marketing, Sales, Product Management).

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