This will not be a comprehensive guide to what Scrum is. This is really brief about what scrum is and what scrum isn't. That's because Scrum is what you make of it anyway and there is never an ideal scenario -- it's kind of like you'll know it when you experience in a Scrum team.
What Are the Scrum Values?
Instead of going into what Scrum is (we take it that you know what it is already or if not you can Google it), we just...
Managing a product team is not like in a traditional hierarchy.
Product teams especially in larger organizations are matrix organizations. Even in small companies we typically see matrix organizations where 'Product' (with a capital 'p') is separate from Marketing, Development, QA and the business stakeholders.
This presents a unique challenge to Product Managers because each of the people in your squad, scrum team, agile team are...