Synopses & Reviews
Th>The Scrum Field Guide will give you skills and confidence to adopt Scrum more rapidly, more successfully, and with far less pain and fear. 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. You’ll learn how to gain “quick wins” that build support, and then use the flexibility of Scrum to maximize value creation across the entire process.
In 30 brief, engaging chapters, Lacey guides you through everything from defining roles to setting priorities to determining team velocity, choosing a sprint length, and conducting customer reviews. Along the way, he explains why Scrum can seem counterintuitive, offers a solid grounding in the core agile concepts that make it work, and shows where it can (and shouldn’t) be modified. Coverage includes
- Getting teams on board, and bringing new team members aboard after you’ve started
- Creating a “definition of done” for the team and organization
- Implementing the strong technical practices that are indispensable for agile success
- Balancing predictability and adaptability in release planning
- Keeping defects in check
- Running productive daily standup meetings
- Keeping people engaged with pair programming
- Managing culture clashes on Scrum teams
- Performing “emergency procedures” to get sprints back on track
- Establishing a pace your team can truly sustain
- Accurately costing projects, and measuring the value they deliver
- Documenting Scrum projects effectively
- Prioritizing and estimating large backlogs
- Integrating outsourced and offshored components
New coverage to this edition includes material on Immersive Interviewing, the Value of Collaborative Estimation, and Achieving Competitive Advantage with Business Alignment.
Packed with real-world examples from Lacey’s own experience, this book is invaluable to everyone transitioning to agile: developers, architects, testers, managers, and project owners alike.
Synopsis
Thousands of organizations are adopting Scrum to transform the way they execute complex projects, in software and beyond. This guide will give you the skills and confidence needed to deploy Scrum, resulting in high-performing teams and satisfied customers. Drawing on years of hands-on experience helping companies succeed, Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) Mitch Lacey helps you overcome the major challenges of Scrum adoption and the deeper issues that emerge later.
Extensively revised to reflect improved Scrum practices and tools, this edition adds an all-new section of tips from the field.
Lacey covers many new topics, including immersive interviewing, collaborative estimation, and deepening business alignment. In 35 engaging chapters, you ll learn how to build support and maximize value across your company.
Now part of the renowned Mike Cohn Signature Series on agile development, this pragmatic guide addresses everything from establishing roles and priorities to determining team velocity, setting sprint length, and conducting customer reviews.
Coverage includes
- Bringing teams and new team members on board
- Creating a workable definition of done
- Planning for short-term wins, and removing impediments to success
- Balancing predictability and adaptability in release planning
- Running productive daily scrums
- Fixing failing sprints
- Accurately costing projects, and measuring the value they deliver
- Managing risks in dynamic Scrum projects
- Prioritizing and estimating backlogs
- Working with distributed and offshore teams
- Institutionalizing improvements, and extending agility throughout the organization
Packed with real-world examples straight from Lacey s experience, this book will be invaluable to anyone transitioning to Scrum, seeking to improve their early results, or trying to get back on track.
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Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Author
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: Determining Team Velocity
Chapter 5: Implementing the Scrum Roles
Chapter 6: Determining Sprint Length
Chapter 7: How Do We Know When We Are 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: Running a Productive Daily Standup Meeting
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
Chapter 30: Writing Contracts
Appendix: Scrum Framework