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The Spirit of Scrum

Beyond form and practice

Michael Küsters

Look beyond the form of a specific practice and discover the “spirit of Scrum”: the vital essence which helps you build successful teams.

Michael draws from his vast experience to offer you real stories that can help you draw parallels to your own situation and gain a deeper understanding of Scrum.

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Discover the "Spirit of Scrum" contained in over one hundred narratives from real world Scrum implementations in companies of different size, industry and agile maturity.

This book contains a vast treasure of learnings and reflection opportunities that will make you, too, more successful with Scrum.

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Michael Küsters

Michael helps companies and people become more agile by providing coaching, training and consulting in agile frameworks, principles and mindset.

As author, he is sharing his insights and experiences with people seeking for new ways to achieve even more than before.

Michael has consulted for a wide range of companies from small start-up to international corporation, transforming teams, divisions and entire organizations. He is a seasoned veteran with Scrum, Kanban, XP, LeSS and SAFe, Lean and Six Sigma and harnesses this vast experience for his clients' success.

Before experiencing agility, Michael has worked in all traditional IT roles - analyst, developer, tester, operations, support, project manager, division head - even CTO. He also draws on a vast experience as agile team member, Scrum Master and Product Owner.

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Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

When Scrum doesn’t work

  1. Prologue
  2. The Developer office
  3. The Analysts
  4. Business Leader
  5. Business Team
  6. Epilogue

The Scrum Flow

  1. Scrum - a process?
  2. Sprint Planning
  3. Excel mode
  4. Perceived value
  5. Risk management
  6. The curse of Hi-Tech
  7. Learning environment
  8. Ask questions
  9. Daily Scrum
  10. Three Questions
  11. Misunder- Standing
  12. Avoid Reporting
  13. Crisp and concise
  14. Developer meeting
  15. Sprint Review
  16. Be prepared
  17. Review isn’t Reporting
  18. Product, not code
  19. It’s not a Demo
  20. Get feedback
  21. Retrospectives
  22. Good, Bad, Boring
  23. A fake Retrospective
  24. The five-stage canvas
  25. Method focus
  26. Putting spice into Retrospectives
  27. Social Experiments
  28. Change the Impossible
  29. Refinement
  30. Brood

Scrum Values

  1. Commitment
  2. Courage
  3. Focus
  4. Openness
  5. Respect

Roles and Interaction

  1. Development team
  2. Cross-functional teams
  3. T-Shaped People
  4. Fill the gaps
  5. No “I” in Team
  6. Stop thinking in roles
  7. Change the game
  8. Challenge the rules
  9. Scrum Master
  10. Make Scrum happen
  11. Keep Scrum going
  12. Defend Scrum
  13. Team responsibility
  14. Tough skin, long breath
  15. Change your mind
  16. Product Owner
  17. Manage the backlog
  18. Know the customer
  19. Not my problem

Scrum Artifacts

  1. Essential Artifacts
  2. Product Backlog
  3. Sprint Backlog
  4. Product Increment
  5. Distracting artifacts
  6. Wasteful artifacts
  7. Counterproductive artifacts

Working Agreements

  1. Everything worth doing is worth overdoing

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