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Fixing Your Scrum
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Fixing Your Scrum

by Ryan Ripley, Todd Miller
January 2020
Intermediate to advanced
242 pages
6h 5m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Chapter 8Management

Manager:

Ryan, glad you’re back from Scrum training. I have a few minutes, so tell me about this Scrum stuff that I just spent a lot of money on.

Ryan:

It’s a framework for delivery. There are three roles: Scrum master, product owner, and development team. Five events: sprint, sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review, and sprint retrospective. And three artifacts: product backlog, sprint backlog, and the increment.

Manager:

You’ve got the jargon down, but what does it mean for our teams?

Ryan:

It means that the development teams are now self-organizing and self-managing. We inspect and...

Manager:

Wait. Self-managing? If teams manage themselves, what do I do?

Ryan:

You support the teams. The point of Scrum is to get to ...

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