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The Professional ScrumMaster's Handbook

You're reading from   The Professional ScrumMaster's Handbook A collection of tips, tricks, and war stories to help the professional ScrumMaster break the chains of traditional organization and management

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849688024
Length 336 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

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) 2. Release Planning – Tuning Product Development FREE CHAPTER 3. Sprint Planning – Fine-tune the Sprint Commitment 4. Sprint! Visible, Collaborative, and Meaningful Work 5. The End? Improving Product and Process One Bite at a Time 6. The Criticality of Real-time Information 7. Scrum Values Expose Fear, Dysfunction, and Waste 8. Everyday Leadership for the ScrumMaster and Team 9. Shaping the Agile Organization 10. Scrum – Large and Small 11. Scrum and the Future The ScrumMaster's Responsibilities ScrumMaster's Workshop Index

Summary


Retrospectives provide teams with the ability to solve their own problems and escalate any issue that they cannot solve for themselves. Reviews and retrospectives offer visibility into product and process so that both can be adapted, giving the organization the ability to improve by listening to knowledge workers, rather than managing, measuring, and punishing them for challenging the status quo. Scrum sprints allow for the most important work to happen in short cycle times; anything that jeopardizes completion of the product increment must be dealt with immediately. Scrum often leads to innovation by the issues it exposes, but only if the ScrumMaster and/or team can engage in focused, relevant discussions of the challenges. If issues are surfaced but no action items result, the process will surely stagnate. As you accept the role of the ScrumMaster, please be sure that you're ready for your Scrum mother-in-law to live with you!

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