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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

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800205567

Length 174 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Scrum

Concepts

Agile

Author (1):

Fred Heath

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

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

The pillars of empiricism

Just like a house needs pillars in order to be supported and withstand bad weather or earthquakes, so does a development framework need pillars to support it and make it resistant to adverse effects. For an empirical approach, such as Scrum, these pillars are Inspection, Adaptation, and Transparency.

The pillars of empiricism are summarized in the following diagram:

Figure 2.1 – The pillars of empiricism

Let's examine what each of these pillars means.

Inspection

As mentioned in Chapter 1, Introduction to Scrum, Scrum Teams produce certain artifacts. According to the Scrum Guide, Scrum practitioners should inspect Scrum Artifacts when these are being produced. Inspections should be honest and thorough, but they should not take over or obstruct the development work.

We have actually already mentioned one of these artifacts: the Increment. Increments, as well as the other artifacts that we'll examine in...

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Authors (1)

Fred Heath

Fred Heath

Fred Heath is an accomplished software engineer and technical product specialist with 25 years of experience in the software engineering world, spanning a wide range of roles, industries, and technologies. He has worked with Scrum for over a decade and has performed every role in the Scrum Team. His technical interests include programming with Ruby and Elixir, Behavior-Driven Development, software engineering best practices, and agile methodologies. He has authored two books, on Scrum and requirements management, and enjoys blogging and speaking at technical conferences. Fred is currently working as a Data Product Manager in the EdTech sector.

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