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Agile Project Management with Scrum

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ISBN-10: 073561993X

ISBN-13: 9780735619937

Edition: 2004 (Revised)

Authors: Ken Schwaber

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The rules and practices for Scrum -- a simple process for managing complex projects -- are few, straightforward, and easy to learn. But Scrum's simplicity itself -- its lack of prescription -- can be disarming, and new practitioners often find themselves reverting to old project management habits and tools and yielding lesser results. In this illuminating series of case studies, Scrum co-creator and evangelist Ken Schwaber identifies the real-world lessons -- the successes and failures -- culled from his years of experience coaching companies in agile project management. Through them, you'll understand how to use Scrum to solve complex problems and drive better results -- delivering more…    
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Book details

List price: $39.99
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Pearson Education
Publication date: 2/11/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 7.25" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English

A 30-year veteran of the software development industry, Ken Schwaber is a leader of the agile process revolution and one of the developers of the Scrum process. A signatory of the Agile Manifesto in 2001, he subsequently founded the Agile Alliance and the Scrum Alliance. Ken authored Agile Project Management with Scrum and coauthored Agile Software Development with Scrum and has helped train more than 47,000 certified ScrumMasters.

Foreword
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Backdrop: The Science of Scrum
Empirical Process Control
Complex Software Development
The Skeleton and Heart of Scrum
Scrum Roles
Scrum Flow
Scrum Artifacts
Product Backlog
Sprint Backlog
Increment of Potentially Shippable Product Functionality
New Management Responsibilities
The ScrumMaster at MetaEco
The Situation at MetaEco
The ScrumMaster in Action
The ScrumMaster's Value
The Product Owner at MegaEnergy
The Situation at MegaEnergy
The Product Owner in Action
The Product Owner's Value
The Team at Service1st
The Situation at Service1st
The Team in Action
The Team's Value
The ScrumMaster
The Untrained ScrumMaster at Trey Research
What Was Wrong
Lessons Learned
The Untrained ScrumMaster at Litware
What Was Wrong
Lessons Learned
Overzealous at Contoso.com
Being Right Isn't Everything
Lessons Learned
Wolves at MegaFund
The Wolves Strike
Lessons Learned
Bringing Order from Chaos
The Situation at Service1st
Application of Scrum
Lessons Learned
The Situation at Tree Business Publishing
Application of Scrum
Lessons Learned
The Situation at Lapsec
Application of Scrum
Lessons Learned
The Product Owner
Customer and Team Collaboration
Getting Service1st's Management Back in Action
Sprint Review Meeting
Lessons Learned
Fixing the Problem of XFlow at MegaFund
Addressing the Problem
Lessons Learned
Company Goals at TechCore
How Scrum Helped TechCore
Lessons Learned
Company Goals at MegaBank Funds Transfer System
How Scrum Helped FTS
Lessons Learned
Planning a Scrum Project
Managing Cash at MegaBank
The Two-Day Sprint Planning Meeting
Lessons Learned
Certified ScrumMasters Take on Return on Investment (ROI)
MLBTix
How the Teams Respond to This Exercise
Lessons Learned
Project Reporting--Keeping Everything Visible
New Project Reporting at the MegaEnergy Title Project
Solving the Problem
Lessons Learned
Getting More Information at MegaBank
Solving the Problem
Lessons Learned
Not Everything Is Visible at Service1st
The Reality
Lessons Learned
The Team
Team Formation at Service1st
Learning Who's the Boss: The Transition
Learning to Engineer Better: The Transition
Learning to Self-Organize: The Transition
Estimating Workload: The Transition
Learning to Have Fun While Working: The Transition
Giving the Team a Chance at WebNewSite
Background
Lessons Learned
Scaling Projects Using Scrum
Scaling at MegaFund
Approach
Lessons Learned
Scrum Scaling
Scaling at Medcinsoft
Approach
Bug Fixing
Lessons Learned
Rules
Sprint Planning Meeting
Daily Scrum Meeting
Sprint
Sprint Review Meeting
Sprint Retrospective Meeting
Definitions
Resources
Fixed-Price, Fixed-Date Contracts
How to Gain Competitive Advantage
How to Ignore Competitive Advantage
Capability Maturity Model (CMM)
CMM at MegaFund
SEI, CMM, and Scrum
Index