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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

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Scrum Provides a Way Forward, If Pursued With ProfessionalismWho Should Read This BookHow This Book is OrganizedCall to Action
Focus on Seven Key Areas to Improve Your Scrum PracticeGrowing Scrum Requires a Team to Improve Other CapabilitiesA Process for Continuous ImprovementSummaryCall to Action
Forming a Team IdentityWhat Makes a Good Team Member?Who Should Be on a Scrum Team?How Do Scrum Teams Form Working Agreements?What Does Self-Organization Look Like?How Do Scrum Teams Collaborate?How Do Teams Progress?SummaryCall to Action
What is a Definition of “Done”?Using Sprint Goals to Get to “Done”Getting PBIs to “Done” Earlier in the SprintLimiting Work Items in ProgressBuilding in Quality From the BeginningQuality MetricsTackling Technical DebtSummaryCall to Action
What is Value?Delivering Faster Is a Good Start, But Not EnoughProduct Value and the Scrum TeamUsing the Product Vision to Enliven Team Purpose, Focus, and IdentityMeasuring ValueInspecting and Adapting Based on FeedbackSummaryCall to Action
Planning With a Product MindsetCreating AlignmentProduct Backlog RefinementPlanning a SprintHow Far Ahead to RefinePlanning ReleasesSummaryCall to Action
Using the Sprint Retrospective to Uncover Areas for ImprovementIdentifying and Removing ImpedimentsGrowing Individual and Team CapabilitiesBeing an Accountable Scrum MasterSummaryCall to Action
Organizations Need to Evolve to SucceedDeveloping People and TeamsGetting Comfortable with TransparencyA Culture of Accountability, Not a Culture of BlameLetting Go of (the Illusion of) ControlThe Real Power of the Iron TriangleFunding Initiatives“Being Agile” is Not the GoalNail it Before you Scale itSummaryCall to Action
Business Agility Requires Emergent SolutionsCall to Action
Business AgilityEffective Empiricism with ScrumEffective Teamwork with ScrumAnalysis of Assessment Answers
Scrum Is Not a Methodology or a Governance Process