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Mastering Professional Scrum: A Practitioner’s Guide to Overcoming Challenges and Maximizing the Benefits of Agility
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Mastering Professional Scrum: A Practitioner’s Guide to Overcoming Challenges and Maximizing the Benefits of Agility

by Stephanie Ockerman, Simon Reindl
October 2019
Beginner
224 pages
4h 50m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
Content preview from Mastering Professional Scrum: A Practitioner’s Guide to Overcoming Challenges and Maximizing the Benefits of Agility

Foreword by Ken Schwaber

I created Scrum to improve the way in which I and others develop software. Scrum has been refined over the last 27 years, mostly through the creation, publishing, and gentle refinement of the Scrum Guide. Jeff Sutherland (the coauthor of Scrum) and I posted Scrum, as precisely defined in the Scrum Guide, online so people can suggest improvements. Over the years, we have refined Scrum based on these comments, making Scrum easier to use and understand.

When I first used the phrase “Scrum Master,” many people became confused. Nobody was mastering Scrum; we were all learning how to use it and how to augment it with practices and tools so as to improve outcomes and to help team members use Scrum with proper values, practices, ...

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