Scrum For Dummies, 3rd Edition

Introduction

Welcome to Scrum For Dummies. Scrum is an agile product development framework with proven results in decreasing time to market by 30–40 percent, improving product quality, and heightening customer satisfaction — all while lowering costs by 30–70 percent. Scrum accomplishes these results through integrating business and development talent, improved communication models, increased performance visibility, regular customer and stakeholder feedback, and an empirically based inspect-and-adapt mentality. You can solve even the most complex problems more effectively by using scrum to increase your bottom line.

About This Book

The goal is to explicitly demonstrate how you can use scrum for any product or solution, not just software development. This book is intended to be a field manual for the application of scrum in real-world situations. Although it covers scrum fundamentals in detail, this book also delves into how to get out and experience the amazing benefits of scrum.

By design, scrum is easy to explain, but the application and mastery are often difficult. Old habits and organizational mindsets need to be shifted and new ways embraced. For this reason, we've included success stories so that you can see how scrum can fit into your situation.

The main thrust of understanding scrum lies in the three accountabilities, three artifacts, and five events that form its foundation — each of which is thoroughly covered in this book. We also include common practices that we ...