97 things every Scrum practitioner should know : collective wisdom from the experts /

"Improve your understanding of Scrum through the proven experience and collected wisdom of experts around the world. Based on real-life experiences, the 97 essays in this unique book provide a wealth of knowledge and expertise from established practitioners who have dealt with specific problems...

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Group Author: Verheyen, Gunther (Scrum practitioner) (Editor)
Published: O'Reilly Media,
Publisher Address: Sebastopol, CA :
Publication Dates: 2020.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Edition: First edition.
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Summary: "Improve your understanding of Scrum through the proven experience and collected wisdom of experts around the world. Based on real-life experiences, the 97 essays in this unique book provide a wealth of knowledge and expertise from established practitioners who have dealt with specific problems and challenges with Scrum. You'll find out more about the rules and roles of this framework, as well as tactics, strategies, specific patterns to use with Scrum, and stories from the trenches. You'll also gain insights on how to apply, tune, and tweak Scrum for your work. This guide is an ideal resource for people new to Scrum and those who want to assess and improve their understanding of this framework."--Publisher description.
Carrier Form: xvii, 257 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9781492073840 (paperback) :
1492073849 (paperback)
Index Number: QA76
CLC: TP311.52
Call Number: TP311.52/N714
Contents: Part I. Start, Adopt, Repeat Five Things Nobody Tells You About Scrum / Marc Loeffler ; Mindset Matters Much More Than Practices / Gil Broza ; Actually, It's Not Really About Scrum / Stacia Viscardi ; Scrum Is Simple Just Use It As Is / Ken Schwaber ; Start with the Why of Your Scrum / Peter Goetz & Uwe Schirmer ; Adopt Before You Adapt / Steve Berczuk ; Regularly Revert to the Simplest Thing That Might Work / Todd Miller ; Will Scrum Work for Multi-Location Development? / Pete Deemer ; Know the Difference Between Multiple Scrum Teams and Multi-Team Scrum / Markus Gaertner ; What Will You Define as "Done"? / Gunther Verheyen ; How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Start Using Scrum / Simon Reindl - Part II. Products Deliver Value. Successful Projects That ...Fail / Ralph Jocham & Don McGreal ; Answer This Question: "What Is Your Product?" / Ellen Gottesdiener ; Scrum: Giving the Steering Wheel Back to Business / Rafael Sabbagh ; Beware the Product Management Vacuum / Ralph Jocham & Don McGreal ; Scaling Scrum to the Entire Organization with the Flow Framework / Mik Kersten ; Put Business Value Front and Center / Alan O'Callaghan ; Product Owner, Not an Information Barrier / Markus Gaertner ; Mastering the Art of "No" to Maximize Value / Willem Vermaak & Robbin Schuurman ; Communicating Prioritized Requirements Through the Product Backlog / James O Coplien ; Why There Are No User Stories at the Top of Your Product Backlog / James O Coplien ; Mind Your Outcomes Pay Attention to Value / Jeff Patton - Part III. Collaboration Is Key. Is There Anything to Learn from Football Hooligans? / Jasper Lamers ; And Then a Miracle Occurs / Konstantin Razumovsky ; Put Customer Focus at the Top of Your Decision-Making Stack / Mitch Lacey ; Is Your Team Working as a Team? / Rich Hundhausen ; "That's Not My Job!" / Markus Gaertner ; Specialization Is for Insects / James O. Coplien ; Digital Tools Considered Harmful: Sprint Backlog / Bas Vodde ; Digital Tools Considered Harmful: Jira / Bas Vodde ; The Vicious Effects of Managing for Utilization / Daniel Heinen & Konstantin Ribel ; Becoming a Radiating Team / Len Lagestee - Part IV. Development Is Multifaceted Work. Agile Is More Than Sprinting / James W Grenning ; Patricia's Product Management Predicament / Chris Lukassen ; The Five Stages of Product Backlog Item Sizing / Len Lagestee ; Three Common Misconceptions About User Stories / Marcus Raitner ; Introducing Abuser Stories / Judy Neher ; What's in Your Sprint Plan? / Rich Hundhausen ; Sprint Backlogs Deserve a Life Beyond Your Electronic Tool / Mark Levison ; Testing Is a Team Sport / Lisa Crispin ; Rethinking Bugs / Rich Hundhausen ; Product Backlog Refinement Is an Important Team Activity / Anu Smalley ; Automating Agility / David Starr ; The Evergreen Tree / Jesse Houwing - Part V. Events, Not Meetings. Sprints Are for Progress, Not to Become the New Treadmill / Jutta Eckstein ; How to Have an Effective Sprint Planning / Luis Gonçalves ; Sprint Goals Provide Purpose (Beyond Merely Completing Work Lists) / Mark Levison ; Sprint Goals: The Forgotten Keys of Scrum / Ralph Jocham & Don McGreal ; The Daily Scrum Is the Developers' Agile Heartbeat / James O. Coplien ; The Sprint Review Is Not a Phase-Gate / Dave West ; The Purpose of Sprint Review Is to Gather Feedback--Period / Rafael Sabbagh ; A Demo Is Not Enough--Go and Deploy for Better Feedback / Sanjay Saini ; Have Sprint Retrospectives and Structure Them / Steve Berczuk ; The Most Important Thing Isn't What You Think It Is / Bob Hartman - Part VI. Mastery Does Matter. Understanding the Scrum Master Role / Luis Gonçalves ; How I Learned That It's Not About Me, the Scrum Master / Ryan Ripley ; Servant-Leadership Starts from Within / Bob Galen ; The Court Jester at the Touchline / Marcus Raitner ; The Scrum Master as Coach / Geoff Watts ; The Scrum Master as a Technical Coach / Bas Vodde ; Scrum Master, Not Impediment Hunter / Derek Davidson ; Anatomy of an Impediment / Len Lagestee ; The Scrum Master's Most Important Tool / Stephanie Ockerman ; When in Trouble...Break Glass! / Bob Galen ; Actively Doing Nothing (Is Actually Hard Work) / Bas Vodde ; Guiding Scrum Masters on Their Never-Ending Journey with the #ScrumMasterWay Concept / Zuzi Šochová - Part VII. People, All Too Human. Teams Are More Than Collections of Technical Skills / Uwe Schirmer ; Are People Impediments? / Bob Galen ; How Human Nature Overcomplicates What Is Already Complex / Stijn Decneut ; How to Design Your Scrum for A-ha! Moments / Stijn Decneut ; Use Brain Science to Make Your Scrum Events Stick / Evelien Acun-Roos ; The Power of Standing Up / Linda Rising ; The Effects of Working from Home / Daniel James Gullo ; The Gentle Way of Change / Chris Lukassen - Part VIII. Values Drive Behavior. Scrum Is More About Behavior Than It Is About Process / Gunther Verheyen ; What It Means to Self-Organize / Michael K Spayd ; Treating Defects as Treasures (the Value of Openness) / Jorgen Hesselberg ; "That