Essential Scrum: A Practical Guide to the Most Popular Agile Process

Preface

This book discusses Essential Scrum—the things you have to know if you’re going to be successful when using Scrum to develop innovative products and services.

What Is Essential Scrum?

Scrum is based on a small set of core values, principles, and practices (collectively the Scrum framework). Organizations using Scrum should embrace the Scrum framework in its entirety, perhaps not through the entire organization all at once, but certainly within the initial teams that will use Scrum. Embracing all of Scrum does not mean, however, that organizations must implement Scrum according to some cookie-cutter, one-size-fits-all formula. Rather, it means that organizations should always stay true to the Scrum framework while choosing an appropriate ...