Book description
Improve your understanding of Scrum through the proven experience and collected wisdom of experts around the world. Based on real-life experiences, the 97 essays in this unique book provide a wealth of knowledge and expertise from established practitioners who have dealt with specific problems and challenges with Scrum.
You'll find out more about the rules and roles of this framework, as well as tactics, strategies, specific patterns to use with Scrum, and stories from the trenches. You'll also gain insights on how to apply, tune, and tweak Scrum for your work. This guide is an ideal resource for people new to Scrum and those who want to assess and improve their understanding of this framework.
- "Scrum Is Simple. Just Use It As Is.," Ken Schwaber
- "The 'Standing Meeting,'" Bob Warfield
- "Specialization Is for Insects," James O. Coplien
- "Scrum Events Are Rituals to Ensure Good Harvest," Jasper Lamers
- "Servant Leadership Starts from Within," Bob Galen
- "Agile Is More than Sprinting," James W. Grenning
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Table of contents
- Preface
- I. Start, Adopt, Repeat
- 1. Five Things Nobody Tells You About Scrum
- 2. Mindset Matters Much More Than Practices
- 3. Actually, It’s Not Really About Scrum
- 4. Scrum Is Simple. Just Use It As Is.
- 5. Start with the Why of Your Scrum
- 6. Adopt Before You Adapt
- 7. Regularly Revert to the Simplest Thing That Might Work
- 8. Will Scrum Work for Multi-Location Development?
- 9. Know the Difference Between Multiple Scrum Teams and Multi-Team Scrum
- 10. What Will You Define as “Done”?
- 11. How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Start Using Scrum
- II. Products Deliver Value
- 12. Successful Projects That...Fail
- 13. Answer This Question: “What Is Your Product?”
- 14. Scrum: Giving the Steering Wheel Back to Business
- 15. Beware the Product Management Vacuum
- 16. Scaling Scrum to the Entire Organization with the Flow Framework
- 17. Put Business Value Front and Center
- 18. Product Owner, Not an Information Barrier
- 19. Mastering the Art of “No” to Maximize Value
- 20. Communicating Prioritized Requirements Through the Product Backlog
- 21. Why There Are No User Stories at the Top of Your Product Backlog
- 22. Mind Your Outcomes. Pay Attention to Value.
- III. Collaboration Is Key
- 23. Is There Anything to Learn from Football Hooligans?
- 24. And Then a Miracle Occurs
- 25. Put Customer Focus at the Top of Your Decision-Making Stack
- 26. Is Your Team Working as a Team?
- 27. “That’s Not My Job!”
- 28. Specialization Is for Insects
- 29. Digital Tools Considered Harmful: Sprint Backlog
- 30. Digital Tools Considered Harmful: Jira
- 31. The Vicious Effects of Managing for Utilization
- 32. Becoming a Radiating Team
- IV. Development Is Multifaceted Work
- 33. Agile Is More Than Sprinting
- 34. Patricia’s Product Management Predicament
- 35. The Five Stages of Product Backlog Item Sizing
- 36. Three Common Misconceptions About User Stories
- 37. Introducing Abuser Stories
- 38. What’s in Your Sprint Plan?
- 39. Sprint Backlogs Deserve a Life Beyond Your Electronic Tool
- 40. Testing Is a Team Sport
- 41. Rethinking Bugs
- 42. Product Backlog Refinement Is an Important Team Activity
- 43. Automating Agility
- 44. The Evergreen Tree
- V. Events, Not Meetings
- 45. Sprints Are for Progress, Not to Become the New Treadmill
- 46. How to Have an Effective Sprint Planning
- 47. Sprint Goals Provide Purpose (Beyond Merely Completing Work Lists)
- 48. Sprint Goals: The Forgotten Keys of Scrum
- 49. The Daily Scrum Is the Developers’ Agile Heartbeat
- 50. The Sprint Review Is Not a Phase-Gate
- 51. The Purpose of Sprint Review Is to Gather Feedback—Period
- 52. A Demo Is Not Enough—Go and Deploy for Better Feedback
- 53. Have Sprint Retrospectives and Structure Them
- 54. The Most Important Thing Isn’t What You Think It Is
- VI. Mastery Does Matter
- 55. Understanding the Scrum Master Role
- 56. How I Learned That It’s Not About Me, the Scrum Master
- 57. Servant-Leadership Starts from Within
- 58. The Court Jester at the Touchline
- 59. The Scrum Master as Coach
- 60. The Scrum Master as a Technical Coach
- 61. Scrum Master, Not Impediment Hunter
- 62. Anatomy of an Impediment
- 63. The Scrum Master’s Most Important Tool
- 64. When in Trouble...Break Glass!
- 65. Actively Doing Nothing (Is Actually Hard Work)
- 66. Guiding Scrum Masters on Their Never-Ending Journey with the #ScrumMasterWay Concept
- VII. People, All Too Human
- 67. Teams Are More Than Collections of Technical Skills
- 68. Are People Impediments?
- 69. How Human Nature Overcomplicates What Is Already Complex
- 70. How to Design Your Scrum for A-ha! Moments
- 71. Use Brain Science to Make Your Scrum Events Stick
- 72. The Power of Standing Up
- 73. The Effects of Working from Home
- 74. The Gentle Way of Change
- VIII. Values Drive Behavior
- 75. Scrum Is More About Behavior Than It Is About Process
- 76. What It Means to Self-Organize
- 77. Treating Defects as Treasures (the Value of Openness)
- 78. “That Won’t Work Here!”
- 79. Five Sublime Aspects for Being a More Humane Scrum Master
- 80. The Sixth Scrum Value
- IX. Organizational Design
- 81. Agile Leadership and Culture Design
- 82. Scrum Is “Agile Leadership”
- 83. Scrum Is Also About Improving the Organization
- 84. Networks and Respect
- 85. The Power of Play in a Safe (but Not Too Safe) Environment
- 86. The Trinity of Agile Leadership
- 87. The “MetaScrum” Pattern to Drive Agile Transformation
- 88. Scrum and Organizational Design in Practice
- 89. Thinking Big
- X. Scrum Off Script
- 90. The Origins of Scrum Might Not Be What You Think They Are
- 91. The “Standing Meeting”
- 92. Scrum: Problem-Solving and the Scientific Method in Practice
- 93. Scrum Events Are Rituals to Ensure Good Harvest
- 94. How We Used Scrum to Work with an External Agency
- 95. Scrum Applied in Police Work
- 96. Born to Be Agile: A Case for Scrum in the Classroom
- 97. Agile in Education with eduScrum
- Contributors
- Scrum Glossary
- Index
Product information
- Title: 97 Things Every Scrum Practitioner Should Know
- Author(s):
- Release date: April 2020
- Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- ISBN: 9781492073840
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