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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

Chapter 5. The End? Improving Product and Process One Bite at a Time

The End.

Those two words signify finality, completion, and by their terseness, create an abrupt stop. Every child's storybook ends with these two words; and when we said them aloud with our parents at bedtime—The End—we knew it was time to turn the lights out and go to sleep.

A sprint starts with a sprint planning meeting and ends with the sprint review and retrospective. These meetings are the "bookends" of the sprint time box. At first glance, it appears that the goal is for a Scrum team to get to the end of each sprint having completed "potentially shippable product increment" or "features that work", after which they hold a sprint retrospective to discuss process improvements. This is certainly part of the goal.

The other, and probably more important, purpose of these meetings is to temporarily pause development so that the team and project stakeholders may figure out how to better proceed in the next sprint. Unlike the...

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