Book description
A collection of tips, tricks, and war stories to help the professional ScrumMaster break the chains of traditional organization and management
- Checklists, questions, and exercises to get you thinking (and acting) like a professional ScrumMaster
- Presented in a relaxed, jargon-free, personable style
- Full of ideas, tips, and anecdotes based on real-world experiences
In Detail
A natural and difficult tension exists between a project team (supply) and its customer (demand); a professional ScrumMaster relaxes this tension using the Scrum framework so that the team arrives at the best possible outcome.
"The Professional ScrumMaster’s Handbook" is a practical, no-nonsense guide to helping you become an inspiring and effective ScrumMaster known for getting results.
This book goes into great detail about why it seems like you’re fighting traditional management culture every step of the way. You will explore the three roles of Scrum and how, working in harmony, they can deliver a product in the leanest way possible. You’ll understand that even though there is no room for a project manager in Scrum, there are certain “management” aspects you should be familiar with to help you along the way. Getting a team to manage itself and take responsibility is no easy feat; this book will show you how to earn trust by displaying it and inspiring courage in a team every day.
"The Professional ScrumMaster’s Handbook" will challenge you to dig deep within yourself to improve your mindset, practices, and values in order to build and support the very best agile teams.
Table of contents
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The Professional ScrumMaster's Handbook
- Table of Contents
- The Professional ScrumMaster's Handbook
- Credits
- Foreword
- About the Author
- Acknowledgment
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
- 1. Scrum – A Brief Review of the Basics (and a Few Interesting Tidbits)
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2. Release Planning – Tuning Product Development
- Start at the beginning – product backlog
- Release planning – when will you set your features free?
- Summary
- Recommended reading
- 3. Sprint Planning – Fine-tune the Sprint Commitment
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4. Sprint! Visible, Collaborative, and Meaningful Work
- How the Scrum team should work
- Working in a sprint
- Estimating work
- The misunderstood daily scrum meeting
- Individual influences to the work of the sprint
- What's 'Norm'al for one team is not for another
- A corporate culture and its impact on teamwork
- Summary
- Recommended reading
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5. The End? Improving Product and Process One Bite at a Time
- Sprint review – inspecting and adapting the product
- Sprint retrospective – inspecting and adapting processes and teamwork
- Why should we care about reviews and retrospectives?
- Summary
- Recommended reading
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6. The Criticality of Real-time Information
- Yesterday's news is old news
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Through the Scrum microscope
- 1x magnification – product vision/initiatives
- 2x magnification – the product roadmap
- 4x magnification – the release plan
- 8x magnification – the product backlog
- 16x magnification – the sprint
- 32x magnification – tasks, daily scrums, and other information
- 64x magnification – read all about it, in the team room!
- Scrum microscope summary
- When physical taskboards and conversations aren't enough
- Waste and obstacle removal
- Summary
- 7. Scrum Values Expose Fear, Dysfunction, and Waste
- 8. Everyday Leadership for the ScrumMaster and Team
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9. Shaping the Agile Organization
- Will Agile cause a ripple, or a tsunami?
- Culture change requires a multi-faceted approach
- Self-actualizing individuals create an Agile organization
- Don't go it alone
- Avoiding Scrum as a panacea
- Why change? What blocks?
- Immunity to change
- Face it, Scrum might not be for your organization
- Summary
- Recommended reading
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10. Scrum – Large and Small
- Scrum stops the resource shell game
- Small Scrum
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When Scrum gets big—dysfunction or constraint?
- Challenge 1: Fearful ScrumMasters
- Challenge 2: Late integration
- Challenge 3: Communication across multiple teams
- Challenge 4: Big picture metrics
- Challenge 5: Not done – the root of all evil
- Challenge 6: Too few product owners
- Challenge 7: Scaling too much, too fast
- Challenge 8: Wrong team structure
- Challenge 9: Distributed teams
- A real need for a project Grand Poobah
- Agile DNA
- Summary
- Recommended reading
- 11. Scrum and the Future
- A. The ScrumMaster's Responsibilities
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B. ScrumMaster's Workshop
- Chapter 1: Scrum – A Brief Review of the Basics (and a Few Interesting Tidbits)
- Chapter 2: Release Planning – Tuning Product Development
- Chapter 3: Sprint Planning – Fine-tune the Sprint Commitment
- Chapter 4: Sprint! Valuable, Collaborative, and Meaningful Work
- Chapter 5: The End? Improving Product and Process One Bite at a Time
- Chapter 6: The Criticality of Real-time Information
- Chapter 7: Scrum Values Expose Fear, Dysfunction, and Waste
- Chapter 8: Everyday Leadership for the ScrumMaster and Team
- Chapter 9: Shaping the Agile Organization
- Chapter 10: Scrum – Large and Small
- Index
Product information
- Title: The Professional ScrumMaster's Handbook
- Author(s):
- Release date: April 2013
- Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
- ISBN: 9781849688024
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