Chapter 4. The pre-game
In the game of rugby, or any professional sport for that matter, there are many activities that must be performed prior to kickoff: prior games are analyzed, sponsors are secured, stakeholder input is provided, rules get re-explained, playing fields get selected, calendar dates get negotiated, teams get selected, and player positions get designated. Scrum software development projects also have a pre-game, where many of these same types of activities are performed. The Scrum pre-game is the time period when the vision is established all the way up to the beginning of the first Sprint. The pre-game is not time-boxed, and not all projects make it out of the pre-game.
There are many important activities that can be performed ...
Get Professional Scrum Development with Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2012 now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
