Book description
A fast and easy guide to Agile/Scrum principles for any organization
The philosophy of Agile is to collaborate as much as possible with your teams and clients to build quality products that ship early and often, while learning and re-learning as you go. The Scrum approach organizes business priorities around short team sprints that yield incremental improvement. If you find yourself at the helm of a team, The Agile Pocket Guide will guide you in implementing Agile and Scrum principles through organizational change and by bringing personal ownership into the equation.
Discover how to develop products, services, and software quickly and efficiently by adhering to the basic tenets of the Scrum framework, as well as how to apply the processes and steps required to become agile, regardless of the swiftness of your team or the level of bureaucracy in your organization. In this straightforward and practical handbook, you'll learn:
The dynamics of a successful Agile environment
The very basics of Scrum and how to employ them quickly
Practical questions to ask the Team Leader as well as the Team
How to build an environment of communication and collaboration for the entire organization
And much more!
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- About the Author
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Team Tribes: A Story
- Chapter 1: Servant Leadership
- Chapter 2: What the Business Wants from You—Managing Requirements
- Chapter 3: Your Agile Team
- Chapter 4: The High-Performance Team
- Chapter 5: Everyone around the Campfire
- Chapter 6: Daily Stand-Up, or Daily Scrum
- Chapter 7: Introducing the Product Owner, or Value Driver
- Chapter 8: Discoveries from the Product Backlog
- Chapter 9: The Sprint Backlog and Release Planning
- Chapter 10: Sprint Planning Meeting
- Chapter 11: User Stories and Estimation
- Chapter 12: Timeboxed Sprints (Iterations) and the Meaning of Done
- Chapter 13: Tracking Flow and Information Radiators
- Chapter 14: Demonstration of the Product
- Chapter 15: The Retrospective
- Chapter 16: Wash, Rinse, Repeat, Win!
- Chapter 17: Team and Business Cultural Dynamics—Team Science™
- Chapter 18: Scrum of Scrums
- Chapter 19: Thirty-Second Scrum Elevator Pitch
- chapter 20: Understanding Requirements
- Chapter 21: Paired Programming—Team Kaizen
- Chapter 22: Measuring a Working Product
- Chapter 23: Technical Debt Is a Progress Killer!
- Chapter 24: Oh Kanban!
- Chapter 25: Personal Kaizen—More on Servant Leadership
- Chapter 26: Team Kaizen—Practicing Agile
- Chapter 27: Product Kaizen—The Value Driver for Your Product
- Chapter 28: Cultural Kaizen—Leadership in Dynamic Team Cultures
- Chapter 29: Conclusion
- Index
Product information
- Title: The Agile Pocket Guide: A Quick Start to Making Your Business Agile Using Scrum and Beyond
- Author(s):
- Release date: November 2012
- Publisher(s): Wiley
- ISBN: 9781118438251
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