Most people in the IT industry believe that the term Scrum was coined early in the 2000s as a parallel track of emerging agile software development and delivery trends. That's is a piece of incorrect information! The term Scrum was first used and published by Harvard Business Review in January 1986. Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka coined the term Scrum with their article: The New New Product Development Game. (Yes, two News)