Introduction

This is not a book for those who are completely new to Scrum or agile. There are other books, classes, and even websites for that. If you are completely new to Scrum, start with one of those.1 Nor is this a book for purists. They can find many blogs that will argue the one, true way of agile or Scrum. This is a book for pragmatists. It is for those who have started with Scrum and then encountered problems or for those who have not yet started with Scrum but who know they want to. They don’t need to read again about how to draw a burndown chart or what three answers each person gives at the daily scrum. They need advice on the harder stuff—how to introduce and spread Scrum, how to get people to let go of doing a big design at the ...

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