Scrum in Easy Steps:

by David Morris

Published 1 January 2017

An essential guide for anyone new to Scrum, and a valuable reference for the more experienced.Includes downloadable templates to get you started.

Scrum is the most widely used agile framework for developing software products.

Scrum in easy steps provides an introduction to Scrum, then steps through how a team gets going on a project and how they sustain performance and continually improve. It explores the three core roles in a Scrum team and how they work together effectively, and covers how a team works with others outside the team (an area most books on Scrum leave out).

The book then shows how to apply the Scrum framework throughout product development, from product discovery and definition, through the experience of working in Sprints on product delivery, to how teams inspect and adapt to improve themselves and find opportunities for their organisations to get better too. It finishes with a look at how Scrum could be applied beyond a single team and how the work of Scrum teams is integrated successfully with other parts of the organisation.

Whether you’re looking to move into the field of software development, are currently in a Scrum team and want a handy reference, or you work in an environment with Scrum teams and want to understand how they work, Scrum in easy steps is for you.


This third
edition of Agile
Project Management in easy steps has been updated to reflect
its ongoing evolution. It explains the principles, practices, and processes of
agile project management, by following an entire project, step-by-step, and
covering the main activities and deliverables, including:

Pre-project start-up and terms of reference.



Feasibility assessment and the business case.




Establishing strong foundations for success.




Iterative and incremental development .




Continual as well as post-project retrospectives.




Now
with two new chapters: The first addresses how to apply agile
approaches to projects in more controlled environments. The second looks at how
the role of project management changes in organizations moving from projects to
products, where stable long-standing teams work long-term on the same product
or service.





An
essential guide for anyone new to agile projects and a valuable source of
inspiration for the more experienced. It also includes downloadable templates
to get you started.