Getting Started

New Scrum Teams can use pattern languages as a kind of roadmap to introduce Scrum into their organizations, one pattern at a time. Dependencies between patterns form a complex graph, albeit a directed graph with no backtracking. Knowing where to start can be overwhelming. This section will help you get started with pattern languages and pattern sequences.

This book contains two pattern languages. We call them “languages” because they define constraints on the combination and ordering of the parts (the patterns) in the same way that a grammar does (for example, for words). As mentioned earlier, one pattern language (in Chapter 2) deals with the organizational structure and another (Chapter 3) deals with the structure of the ...

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