scrum

Meaning

Noun

• A tightly-packed and disorderly crowd of people.
• A tightly packed group of reporters surrounding a person, usually a politician, asking for comments about an issue; an opportunity provided for a politician to be approached this way.
• In rugby union or rugby league, all the forwards joined together in an organised way.
• In Agile software development, a daily meeting in which each developer describes what they have been doing, what they plan to do next, and any impediments to progress.
• Hostile shoving between two groups.

Origin

• From scrummage, from scrimmage (source: The Heritage Illustrated Dictionary of the English Language).