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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

Creating and managing the Sprint Backlog

The Sprint Backlog is simply a list of Product Backlog items that have been selected for the Sprint, along with the plan for delivering them and accomplishing the Sprint Goal. While the Product Owner is responsible for which items go in the Product Backlog, the developers are solely accountable for which items go into the Sprint Backlog. The Product Owner will make suggestions as to which items should go in the Sprint Backlog, but the developers will decide based on their estimation of the work needed for each item and their own capacity to deliver work within the Sprint. Often, if the Product Owner is very insistent on including certain items in the Sprint, the developers may exclude other items of equal size or complexity from the Sprint Backlog so that they can accommodate the high-priority item. Placing and removing items from the Sprint Backlog must always be driven by the Sprint Goal's imperative. Let's discuss how that happens...

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Authors (1)

Fred Heath

Fred Heath

Fred is a polyglot software engineer who's spent over two decades working at every stage of the software development life-cycle, in a variety of roles and using a plethora of languages and platforms. His software interests include Ruby, Elixir, relational databases, Behavior-Driven Development, requirements management and agile methods. Fred has practiced Scrum for many years, both as a Scrum Master and as a software developer. As well as writing, Fred likes to read history and physics books and also blogs and speaks at meetups and conferences. He has also written the "The Professional Scrum Master Guide- unofficial Guide to Scrum" and "Managing Software Requirements the Agile Way".

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