Scrum Field Guide, The: Agile Advice for Your First Year and Beyond, 2nd edition

Published by Addison-Wesley Professional (December 22, 2015) © 2016

  • Mitch Lacey
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The Scrum Field Guide will give students skills and confidence to learn Scrum rapidly and successfully. Long-time Scrum practitioner Mitch Lacey identifies major challenges associated with early-stage Scrum adoption, as well as deeper issues that emerge after companies have adopted Scrum, and describes how other organizations have overcome them. Students will learn how to gain “quick wins” that build support, and then use the flexibility of Scrum to maximize value creation across the entire process.

Chapter 1: Scrum: Simple, Not Easy

Part I: Getting Prepared

Chapter 2: Getting People on Board

Chapter 3: Using Team Consultants to Optimize Team Performance

Chapter 4: Predicting Team Velocity

Chapter 5: Implementing the Scrum Roles

Chapter 6: Determining Sprint Length

Chapter 7: How Do You Know You're Done?

Chapter 8: The Case for a Full-Time ScrumMaster

Part II: Field Basics

Chapter 9: Why Engineering Practices Are Important in Scrum

Chapter 10: Core Hours

Chapter 11: Release Planning

Chapter 12: Decomposing Stories and Tasks

Chapter 13: Keeping Defects in Check

Chapter 14: Sustained Engineering and Scrum

Chapter 15: The Sprint Review

Chapter 16: Retrospectives

Part III: First Aid

Chapter 17: Facilitating a Productive Daily Scrum

Chapter 18: The Fourth Question in Scrum

Chapter 19: Keeping People Engaged with Pair Programming

Chapter 20: Adding New Team Members

Chapter 21: When Cultures Collide

Chapter 22: Sprint Emergency Procedures

Part IV: Advanced Survival Techniques

Chapter 23: Sustainable Pace

Chapter 24: Delivering Working Software

Chapter 25: Optimizing and Measuring Value

Chapter 26: Up-Front Project Costing

Chapter 27: Documentation in Scrum Projects

Chapter 28: Outsourcing and Offshoring

Chapter 29: Prioritizing and Estimating Large Backlogs–The Big Wall

Chapter 30: Writing Contracts

Part V: Wilderness Essentials

Chapter 31: Driving to Done through Collaboration

Chapter 32: How Story Points Relate to Hours

Chapter 33: Immersive Interviewing and Hiring

Chapter 34: Aligning Incentives with Outcomes

Chapter 35: Risk Management in Scrum

Appendix: Scrum Framework

Index

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