January 2016
Beginner
300 pages
4h 26m
English
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Chapter 1Introducing Scrum
What Is Scrum?
If you picked up this book to learn about applying scrum to your web or mobile development team, you may already be familiar with the terms scrum and agile. Perhaps you received this book from your company, or maybe you've been tasked with implementing an agile process in your own organization. Whatever the reason, it's always useful to start with a clear, shared definition of the relevant terms.
Scrum is one of several techniques for managing product development organizations, lumped under the broad category of agile software development. Agile approaches are designed to support iterative, flexible, and sustainable methods for running a product engineering organization.
Among the various agile techniques, ...