Mastering Professional Scrum (Addison-Wesley Professional)
Wednesday, 15 January 2020

This book aims to show how to deliver increased value by using Scrum more effectively. Scrum practitioners Stephanie Ockerman and Simon Reindl draw on years of Scrum training and coaching to help you return to first principles and apply Scrum with the professionalism required to achieve its transformative potential. They help you focus on proven Scrum approaches for improving quality, getting and using fast feedback, and becoming more adaptable, instead of “going through the motions” and settling for only modest improvements.

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Author: Stephanie Ockerman and Simon Reindl
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Date: October 2019
Pages: 224
ISBN: 978-0134841526
Print: 0134841522
Kindle: B07XTLNPTC
Audience: Scrum developers
Level: Intermediate
Category: Methodology 

 

  • Realistically assess your current Scrum practice, and identify areas for improvement
  • Recognize what a great Scrum Team looks like and get there
  • Focus on “Done”—not “sort-of-Done” or “almost-Done”
  • Measure and optimize the value delivered by every Product Increment
  • Improve the way you plan, develop, and grow
  • Clear away wider organizational impediments to agility and professionalism
  • Overcome common misconceptions that stand in the way of progress

For recommendations of books on Scrum see Reading Your Way To Agile in our Programmer's Bookshelf section.

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