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The Professional Scrum Master Guide

You're reading from   The Professional Scrum Master Guide The unofficial guide to Scrum with real-world projects

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800205567
Length 174 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Fred Heath Fred Heath
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1:The Scrum Framework
2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Scrum FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Scrum Theory and Principles 4. Chapter 3: The Scrum Team 5. Chapter 4: Scrum Events 6. Chapter 5: Scrum Artifacts 7. Section 2:Scrum in Action
8. Chapter 6: Planning and Estimating with Scrum 9. Chapter 7: The Sprint Journey 10. Chapter 8: Facets of Scrum 11. Section 3:The PSM Certification
12. Chapter 9: Preparing for the PSM I Assessment 13. Assessments 14. Other Books You May Enjoy 15. Index

Preparing for the first Sprint

In Scrum, every Sprint is treated exactly the same as any other Sprint. It is a time-boxed event in which the Scrum Team delivers value by creating an increment of potentially releasable software. No Sprint is special in that respect. Some teams, however, especially teams inexperienced in Scrum, tend to treat the first Sprint a bit differently than the others.

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Avoid the Scrum 0 anti-pattern. A Scrum 0 is a Scrum dedicated to setting up infrastructure, creating a design or architecture, initial backlog refinements, and other preparatory work. Scrum 0 is just a set of preliminary activities and does not produce an increment of potentially releasable software. Sprints designed not to produce a Done increment undermine the Scrum principles and should not be pursued.

A common misconception about the first Sprint is that because it's not expected to produce user-side functionality, then it's a special Sprint and can be used as a repository...

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