Agile Product Management with Scrum: Creating Products that Customers Love

Preface

Many excellent books have been written on agile software development and on product management. Yet to date, a comprehensive description of how product management works in an agile context does not exist. It is as if agilists have shied away from the subject, and the product management experts are still scratching their heads trying to figure out this brave new agile world. With more and more companies adopting Scrum, the question of how product management is practiced in a Scrum environment is becoming increasingly urgent. This book attempts to provide an answer.

When I first came across agile practices in 1999, I was struck by the close collaboration between business and technical people. Until then, I had considered software development ...