Pure Waterfall and Agile Scrum compare

Agile Scrum and the traditional waterfall methodologies are fundamentally different. In fact, they are based on different philosophies.

Waterfall project management assumes a definite beginning and a definite end with clearly defined steps to follow that in theory could be repeated again and again.

In Agile Scrum, however, within a sprint, there are steps to be taken to complete the incremental release and some similarities may be found in these steps.

In waterfall Projects, the milestones to be reached.

In Agile scrum, backlog items and user stories to be worked may be compared to the milestones to be reached.

Waterfall Project executing and controlling together may be compared with what happens during Agile scrum sprint. However, the project plan must be executed during executing and controlling stages.

Agile sprint is more flexible than a waterfall project plan. Basic level of control may also be compared with what happens in the daily scrum, or daily standup in which scrum master checks the progress of team members and make sure they stay on track to achieve their goals.

Waterfall’s Closing may be compared within a sprint to a sprint review and sprint retrospective

Agile’s sprint review and sprint retrospective is not true closing unless it is a final release. It is expected that development will still go on at the start of another sprint.