Align with Business Firstly, before you do anything else, you must align your development team with the business. If you’re part of a business unit, that might be natural and straightforward. If you’re a central development organisation serving multiple business units, developing multiple products, it might be harder. Initially, make sure you have at least 1 person dedicated to a product, application or product range where you will start implementing Scrum. You can share a team split across multiple products. But it’s a little harder and therefore is a slightly more advanced technique. If possible, it would be ideal to avoid this situation in your first implementation of Scrum, if you can. Start with BAU Secondly, although you can use Scrum on projects to good effect, I would suggest you start with BAU (business-as-usual) rather than on big projects. This will keep things simple while you and the team get used to the basics. So you’ve decided on a product where you will start using Scrum. You have at least 1 person who will be dedicated to that product (or product range). To keep things simple at first, you have selected a product that is in the BAU cycle of bug fixing and enhancements. - See more at: http://www.allaboutagile.com/how-to-implement-scrum-in-10-easy-steps-step-1-get-your-backlog-in-order/#sthash.VP72curs.dpuf