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

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  • A revised and expanded second edition full of guidance on what organizations need to do during the earlier stages of adoption of the most popular agile method: Scrum.
  • Paves the road to success with a clear plan for creating and releasing software
  • Works with any agile methodology, from XP to Scrum

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  • Copyright 2016
  • Dimensions: 7" x 9-1/8"
  • Pages: 480
  • Edition: 2nd
  • Book
  • ISBN-10: 0-13-385362-4
  • ISBN-13: 978-0-13-385362-9

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

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 BacklogsThe 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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