How different is Scrum practice from Agile Practice?

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Rachel picture Rachel · Oct 19, 2009 · Viewed 128.6k times · Source

Mostly people say Scrum and Agile interchangeably but what is the difference between Scrum Practice as compared to Agile Practice ?

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RibaldEddie picture RibaldEddie · Oct 19, 2009

Agile is a general philosophy regarding software production, Scrum is an implementation of that philosophy pertaining specifically to project management.

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