The Elements of Scrum is a field guide to the practice of scrum, the popular software development methodology, co-authored by Chris Sims, one of the country's leading scrum trainers, and author and business journalist Hillary Johnson.

Scrum is an agile methodology that helps software development teams learn to achieve the team equivalent of Abraham Maslow's concept of "self-actualization," a higher state of being characterized by flow, performance, synergy and happiness. Scrum is named after the rugby field phenomenon where the whole team locks arms to press forward as one, and it has applications beyond the world of software, in any work environment where small teams of people collaborate to get things done.