Implement Scrum on a project (non-IT)

What characterizes IT development is that the product created is new. There is no mold, no production line, no simple recipe to follow. For over fifteen years, agile methods have been created and perfected to master this creative process and produce a product in perfect harmony with users' needs.

But IT is not the only field where the end product is new. The same constraints apply to research and intellectual production in general, as well as to the arts and certain crafts. In all these fields, it's possible to benefit from the years of research and development that have gone into agile methods, and Scrum in particular, as long as you keep the principles in mind.