Understanding and Implementing Scrum

Scrum is all about agile management of innovative product development in self-organizing teams. Scrum’s iterative, incremental approach ensures a much greater degree of transparency and flexibility than traditional, linear development methods.

This book takes you through the basics of scrum and explains the values and principles that the system is built on. The text addresses all individual aspects of the scrum approach, including development, the product itself, and continual improvement of the process.

Topics covered include:

• The history of scrum
• Advantages and suitability
• The scrum flow
• Roles (scrum master, development team, product owner)
• Self-organizing teams
• Scrum meetings (daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint review, sprint retrospective)
• Scrum artifacts (product backlog, sprint backlog, deliverable product increment)
• Release management
• Estimation and assessment processes
• Adopting scrum in a company environment
• Scaling
• Distributed scrum
• Leadership

The book also includes a comprehensive appendix that describes the basic elements of the scrum framework and a summary of the most frequently used scrum techniques. It is aimed at experienced developers who are interested in what scrum is and what it can do for real-world software projects.