Scrum For Dummies

Title Page......Page 3
Copyright Page......Page 4
Table of Contents......Page 7
About This Book......Page 17
Conventions Used in This Book......Page 18
Icons Used in This Book......Page 19
Where to Go from Here......Page 20
Part 1 Getting Started with Scrum......Page 21
Chapter 1 The Basics of Scrum......Page 23
Roadmap to value......Page 24
Scrum overview......Page 26
Scrum teams......Page 27
Scrum framework......Page 28
The Feedback Feast......Page 31
Three pillars of improvement......Page 32
One Agile Manifesto......Page 33
Twelve Agile Principles......Page 34
Three platinum principles......Page 36
The Five Scrum Values......Page 38
Focus......Page 39
Courage......Page 40
Part 2 Running a Scrum Project......Page 41
Chapter 2 The First Steps......Page 43
Show me the money......Page 44
I’m not sure what I want......Page 46
Your company’s culture......Page 47
The Power in the Product Owner......Page 48
Why Product Owners Love Scrum......Page 50
The Company Goal and Strategy: Stage 1......Page 51
Structuring your vision......Page 52
Finding the crosshair......Page 53
Scrum master traits......Page 54
Scrum master as servant leader......Page 55
Why scrum masters love scrum......Page 56
Stakeholders......Page 58
Scrum mentors......Page 59
Chapter 3 Planning Your Project......Page 61
Take the long view......Page 62
Use simple tools......Page 63
Create your product roadmap......Page 64
Set your time frame......Page 65
Prioritization of requirements......Page 66
Levels of decomposition......Page 67
Seven steps of requirement building......Page 68
Your Product Backlog......Page 69
Product backlog refinement......Page 71
User stories......Page 75
Further refinement......Page 78
Chapter 4 The Talent and the Timing......Page 79
The uniqueness of scrum development teams......Page 80
Dedicated teams and cross-functionality......Page 81
Self-organizing and self-managing......Page 84
Co-locating or the nearest thing......Page 85
Getting the Edge on Backlog Estimation......Page 86
Your Definition of Done......Page 87
Common Practices for Estimating......Page 89
Fibonacci numbers and story points......Page 90
Velocity......Page 96
Chapter 5 Release and Sprint Planning......Page 99
Release Plan Basics: Stage 3......Page 100
Prioritize, prioritize, prioritize......Page 102
Release goals......Page 104
Release sprints......Page 105
Release plan in practice......Page 106
Defining sprints......Page 108
Planning sprint length......Page 109
Following the sprint life cycle......Page 111
Sprint goals......Page 113
Phase II......Page 114
Your Sprint Backlog......Page 115
The burndown chart benefit......Page 116
Setting backlog capacity......Page 117
Working the sprint backlog......Page 119
Prioritizing sprints......Page 120
Chapter 6 Getting the Most Out of Sprints......Page 123
Defining the daily scrum......Page 124
Conducting a daily scrum......Page 126
Making daily scrums more effective......Page 127
Team Task Board......Page 128
Swarming......Page 130
Dealing with rejection......Page 131
The Sprint Review: Stage 6......Page 133
The sprint review process......Page 134
Stakeholder feedback......Page 135
The Sprint Retrospective: Stage 7......Page 136
The sprint retrospective process......Page 137
The Derby and Larsen process......Page 138
Inspection and adaptation......Page 140
Need for Certainty......Page 141
The Feedback Loop......Page 142
Transparency......Page 144
Antipatterns......Page 145
In-Flight Course Correction......Page 146
Testing in the Feedback Loop......Page 147
Culture of Innovation......Page 148
Part 3 Scrum for Industry......Page 151
Chapter 8 Software Development......Page 153
Scrum and Software Development: A Natural Fit......Page 154
Software Flexibility and Refactoring......Page 156
Customize your release sizes......Page 157
Embracing Change......Page 158
Business alignment with technology......Page 159
Up-front engineering......Page 161
Emergent architecture......Page 162
Scrum Applications in Software......Page 163
Video-game development......Page 164
Services......Page 167
Customization projects......Page 168
Chapter 9 Tangible Goods Production......Page 171
The Fall of Waterfall......Page 172
The best in bids......Page 173
Scrum roles in construction......Page 174
Customer involvement......Page 175
The subcontractor dilemma......Page 176
Worker safety......Page 177
Scrum in Home Building......Page 179
Manufacturing......Page 180
Shareholder value......Page 181
Strategic capacity management......Page 182
Live hardware development......Page 183
Health Care and Scrum......Page 187
Speed to market......Page 189
Reduced mistakes, increased quality......Page 191
Cost cutting......Page 192
Adhering to regulations......Page 193
Medical device manufacturing and safety......Page 194
Challenges in education......Page 196
Scrum in the classroom......Page 199
Military and Law Enforcement......Page 202
Chapter 11 Publishing: A Shifting Landscape......Page 205
Inspecting, adapting, and refactoring......Page 206
Applying scrum......Page 208
News Media and Scrum......Page 210
Defining done for content......Page 211
The news-media scrum team......Page 212
Sprint flexibility......Page 213
Part 4 Scrum for Business Functions......Page 215
Chapter 12 IT Management and Operations......Page 217
Big Data and Large-Scale Migration......Page 218
Data warehouse project management......Page 219
Enterprise resource planning......Page 221
The Service-versus-Control Conundrum......Page 224
Security challenges......Page 225
The Retiring-Boomer Gap......Page 226
Profit-and-Loss Potential......Page 227
DevOps......Page 228
Maintenance......Page 229
Kanban within a scrum structure......Page 230
Chapter 13 Portfolio Management......Page 235
People allocation and prioritization......Page 236
Disconnect between projects and business objectives......Page 238
Scrum solutions......Page 239
Lean Startup......Page 241
A Vertical Slicing Overview......Page 244
Product owner scrum of scrums......Page 246
Scrum master scrum of scrums......Page 247
Scrum at Scale......Page 248
Scaling the scrum master......Page 249
Scaling the product owner......Page 250
Synchronizing in one hour a day......Page 252
Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)......Page 253
Program......Page 254
TDD and CI......Page 255
Code quality......Page 256
Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS)......Page 257
LeSS framework......Page 258
LeSS Huge framework......Page 259
Chapter 14 Human Resources and Finance......Page 263
Human Resources and Scrum......Page 264
Creating the Right Culture......Page 265
HR and existing organization structures......Page 266
HR and scrum in hiring......Page 268
Performance reviews......Page 269
Incremental funding......Page 274
Scrum and budgets......Page 277
Chapter 15 Business Development......Page 279
Marketing evolution......Page 280
Scrum and social media......Page 281
Scrum in marketing......Page 282
Scrum in Action for Marketing......Page 283
Xerox......Page 284
Scrum for Sales......Page 285
The scrum solution......Page 286
The scrum sales process......Page 288
Chapter 16 Customer Service......Page 293
The service conundrum......Page 294
Information overload......Page 295
Inspect and adapt through feedback......Page 296
Customer service product backlog......Page 297
Customer service definition of done......Page 298
Look inward......Page 299
Inspect and adapt in practice......Page 300
Scrum in Action in Customer Service......Page 301
Part 5 Scrum for Everyday Life......Page 303
Chapter 17 Dating and Family Life......Page 305
Finding Love with Scrum......Page 306
Setting a vision......Page 307
Dating in layers......Page 308
Discovering companionship and scrum......Page 309
Dating with scrum......Page 310
Winning as a team......Page 311
Focusing versus multitasking......Page 312
Planning your wedding with scrum......Page 314
Families and Scrum......Page 315
Planning and setting priorities......Page 316
Communicating with scrum......Page 319
Inspecting and adapting for families......Page 320
Making chores fun and easy......Page 321
Getting to Retirement......Page 323
Saving for emergencies......Page 324
Building retirement......Page 325
Securing financial freedom......Page 326
Achieving Fitness and Weight Goals......Page 328
Keeping Life Balance......Page 330
Planning Travel......Page 332
Learning early......Page 335
Graduating from high school......Page 336
Achieving in college......Page 339
Part 6 The Part of Tens......Page 341
Conduct an Audit......Page 343
Identify and Recruit Talent......Page 344
Mobilize a Transition Team......Page 345
Identify Pilot Project......Page 346
Reduce Single Points of Failure......Page 348
Kick Off Pilot Project......Page 349
Inspect, Adapt, Mature, and Scale......Page 350
Maturity......Page 351
Scale virally......Page 352
Faux Scrum......Page 353
Lack of Automated Testing......Page 354
Inappropriate Environment......Page 355
Lack of Support for Learning......Page 356
Watered-Down Process......Page 357
Better Quality......Page 359
Increased Return on Investment......Page 360
Higher Team Morale......Page 361
More Relevant Metrics......Page 363
Improved Progress Visibility and Exposure......Page 364
Increased Project Control......Page 365
Reduced Risk......Page 366
Chapter 22 Ten Key Metrics for Scrum......Page 367
Defects......Page 368
Time to Market......Page 369
Return on Investment......Page 370
Capital Redeployment......Page 371
Satisfaction Surveys......Page 372
Team Member Turnover......Page 373
Skill Versatility......Page 374
Manager:Creator Ratio......Page 375
Scrum Alliance......Page 377
Scrumguides.org......Page 378
Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)......Page 379
Platinum Edge......Page 380
Index......Page 383
EULA......Page 411