Scrum First Aid
A Recipe Book for Fixing Scrum Challenges and Anti-Patterns
This book is ideal for Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and Development Team members who are struggling with common process problems in Scrum. It's also useful for line managers and senior executives who want to help their Scrum Teams get the most out of their transition to an agile framework.
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Has your team recently adopted Scrum? Has your company's leadership recently encouraged the development process to become more "agile"? Are you an experienced development team whose Scrum implementation is causing more problems than it solves? Then this book is for you!
Whether your current Scrum implementation feels like a slightly-broken process or a five-alarm dumpster fire, you're not alone. Scrum is often touted as a simple, lightweight roadmap to agile success, but it can take years to master the intricacies of the framework. You don't have years, though; you have deadlines to meet and products to deliver.
By distilling common Scrum problems down to their essence, and providing effective solutions to painful Scrum challenges, you can spend more time focusing on product development than putting out framework-imposed fires. It's like hiring an industry-leading Agile Coach for pennies on the dollar.
Filled with illustrative examples and practical solutions, this book is suitable for all Scrum Teams and agile practitioners, regardless of experience level. Whether you're new to Scrum and still trying to wrap your head around some of its less-intuitive practices, or an experienced agilist looking to continuously improve your team's processes, there's something here for you.
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Author
About the Author
Todd A. Jacobs
Todd is the Chief Information Technology Officer and resident agile guru at Modern CloudOps℠, a division of CodeGnome Consulting. He specializes in CloudOps, DevOps, and agile transformations. Todd is also a recognized expert in IT automation and cyber security in the e-commerce, hospitality, and financial services sectors.
Todd is intensely passionate about technology and process. He's published several books about Scrum and agile leadership, and his technical articles have been featured in SysAdmin Magazine and Linux Journal. He's also a top contributor on Stack Overflow and a community moderator on Project Management Stack Exchange.
Contents
Table of Contents
Dedication
Epigraph
Introduction
How to Read This Book
- Pick Your Reading Style
- Chapter Navigation
- Anti-Patterns
Daily Scrum as Status Pulls
- Illustrative Example
- Analysis and Advice
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Sequential Development and Testing
- Illustrative Example
- Analysis and Advice
Expecting Ever-Increasing Velocity
- Illustrative Example
- Analysis and Advice
Sprint Names as “Permalinks”
- Illustrative Example
- Analysis and Advice
Incomplete Work as “Failure”
- Illustrative Example
- Analysis and Advice
- Implementation Questions
How are Product Releases Scheduled?
- Illustrative Example
- Analysis and Advice
Why Define a Sprint Goal Each Sprint?
- Illustrative Example
- Analysis and Advice
Who Manages Project Budgets?
- Illustrative Example
- Analysis and Advice
Must Sprint Backlogs Be Completed?
- Illustrative Example
- Analysis and Advice
What is Scrum’s Process Overhead?
- Illustrative Example
- Analysis and Advice
- Backmatter
About the Author
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