97 Things Every Scrum Practitioner Should Know: Collective Wisdom from the Experts

https://reggaeportugal.com/69g6jci Preface How This Book Is Organized Acknowledgments O’Reilly Online Learning How to Contact Us I. Start, Adopt, Repeat 1. Five Things Nobody Tells You About Scrum Marc Loeffler 1. Scrum Will Not Solve Your Problems 2. Scrum Offers No Benefits When You Only Follow the Process 3. There Is No “Scrum Switch” 4. Transforming to Scrum Means Transforming Your Organization 5. Scrum Is Not Faster 2. Mindset Matters Much More Than Practices Gil Broza 3. Actually, It’s Not Really About Scrum Stacia Viscardi 4. Scrum Is Simple. Just Use It As Is. Ken Schwaber 5. Start with the Why of Your Scrum Peter Goetz & Uwe Schirmer 6. Adopt Before You Adapt Steve Berczuk 7. Regularly Revert to the Simplest Thing That Might Work Todd Miller 8. Will Scrum Work for Multi-Location Development? Pete Deemer 9. Know the Difference Between Multiple Scrum Teams and Multi-Team Scrum Markus Gaertner Multiple Scrum Teams 10. What Will You Define as “Done”? Gunther Verheyen 11. How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Start Using Scrum Simon Reindl II. Products Deliver Value 12. Successful Projects That...Fail Ralph Jocham & Don McGreal 13. Answer This Question: “What Is Your Product?” Ellen Gottesdiener 14. Scrum: Giving the Steering Wheel Back to Business Rafael Sabbagh 15. Beware the Product Management Vacuum Ralph Jocham & Don McGreal 16. Scaling Scrum to the Entire Organization with the Flow Framework Mik Kersten 17. Put Business Value Front and Center Alan O’Callaghan 18. Product Owner, Not an Information Barrier Markus Gaertner 19. Mastering the Art of “No” to Maximize Value Willem Vermaak & Robbin Schuurman 20. Communicating Prioritized Requirements Through the Product Backlog James O. Coplien 21. Why There Are No User Stories at the Top of Your Product Backlog James O. Coplien 22. Mind Your Outcomes. Pay Attention to Value. Jeff Patton III. Collaboration Is Key 23. Is There Anything to Learn from Football Hooligans? Jasper Lamers 24. And Then a Miracle Occurs Konstantin Razumovsky 25. Put Customer Focus at the Top of Your Decision-Making Stack Mitch Lacey 26. Is Your Team Working as a Team? Rich Hundhausen 27. “That’s Not My Job!” Markus Gaertner 28. Specialization Is for Insects James O. Coplien 29. Digital Tools Considered Harmful: Sprint Backlog Bas Vodde 30. Digital Tools Considered Harmful: Jira Bas Vodde Scrum Confusion No Shared Team Responsibility We’re Stuck with Jira. Now What? 31. The Vicious Effects of Managing for Utilization Daniel Heinen & Konstantin Ribel 32. Becoming a Radiating Team Len Lagestee IV. Development Is Multifaceted Work 33. Agile Is More Than Sprinting James W. Grenning 34. Patricia’s Product Management Predicament Chris Lukassen 35. The Five Stages of Product Backlog Item Sizing Len Lagestee 36. Three Common Misconceptions About User Stories Marcus Raitner 1. User Stories Are Part of Scrum 2. User Stories Are Specifications 3. The Product Owner Writes the User Stories 37. Introducing Abuser Stories Judy Neher 38. What’s in Your Sprint Plan? Rich Hundhausen Expressing the Sprint Plan Using Tasks Expressing the Sprint Plan Using Tests Expressing the Sprint Plan Using a Diagram Not Expressing the Sprint Plan 39. Sprint Backlogs Deserve a Life Beyond Your Electronic Tool Mark Levison 40. Testing Is a Team Sport Lisa Crispin As a Team, Commit to Your Desired Level of Quality Design Small Experiments for Your Biggest Problems Make Problems Visible Keep Talking Take It Slow 41. Rethinking Bugs Rich Hundhausen 42. Product Backlog Refinement Is an Important Team Activity Anu Smalley 43. Automating Agility David Starr 44. The Evergreen Tree Jesse Houwing V. Events, Not Meetings 45. Sprints Are for Progress, Not to Become the New Treadmill Jutta Eckstein 46. How to Have an Effective Sprint Planning Luis Gonçalves 47. Sprint Goals Provide Purpose (Beyond Merely Completing Work Lists) Mark Levison 48. Sprint Goals: The Forgotten Keys of Scrum Ralph Jocham & Don McGreal 49. The Daily Scrum Is the Developers’ Agile Heartbeat James O. Coplien 50. The Sprint Review Is Not a Phase-Gate Dave West 51. The Purpose of Sprint Review Is to Gather Feedback—Period Rafael Sabbagh 52. A Demo Is Not Enough—Go and Deploy for Better Feedback Sanjay Saini 53. Have Sprint Retrospectives and Structure Them Steve Berczuk 54. The Most Important Thing Isn’t What You Think It Is Bob Hartman VI. Mastery Does Matter 55. Understanding the Scrum Master Role Luis Gonçalves 56. How I Learned That It’s Not About Me, the Scrum Master Ryan Ripley 57. Servant-Leadership Starts from Within Bob Galen 58. The Court Jester at the Touchline Marcus Raitner 59. The Scrum Master as Coach Geoff Watts 60. The Scrum Master as a Technical Coach Bas Vodde 61. Scrum Master, Not Impediment Hunter Derek Davidson 62. Anatomy of an Impediment Len Lagestee Anything Constricting Flow or Constraining Pull in the System Anything Causing Team Tension to Rise Beyond Constructive Conflict Anything Keeping a Team from Self-Healing 63. The Scrum Master’s Most Important Tool Stephanie Ockerman 64. When in Trouble...Break Glass! Bob Galen 65. Actively Doing Nothing (Is Actually Hard Work) Bas Vodde 66. Guiding Scrum Masters on Their Never-Ending Journey with the #ScrumMasterWay Concept Zuzi Šochová VII. People, All Too Human 67. Teams Are More Than Collections of Technical Skills Uwe Schirmer 68. Are People Impediments? Bob Galen 69. How Human Nature Overcomplicates What Is Already Complex Stijn Decneut 70. How to Design Your Scrum for A-ha! Moments Stijn Decneut 71. Use Brain Science to Make Your Scrum Events Stick Evelien Acun-Roos 72. The Power of Standing Up Linda Rising 73. The Effects of Working from Home Daniel James Gullo 74. The Gentle Way of Change Chris Lukassen 1. Individual Motivation 2. Individual Ability 3. Team Motivation 4. Team Ability 5. Systematic Motivation 6. Systematic Ability VIII. Values Drive Behavior 75. Scrum Is More About Behavior Than It Is About Process Gunther Verheyen 76. What It Means to Self-Organize Michael K. Spayd 77. Treating Defects as Treasures (the Value of Openness) Jorgen Hesselberg 78. “That Won’t Work Here!” Derek Davidson 79. Five Sublime Aspects for Being a More Humane Scrum Master Hiren Doshi 80. The Sixth Scrum Value Derek Davidson IX. Organizational Design 81. Agile Leadership and Culture Design Ron Eringa 82. Scrum Is “Agile Leadership” Andreas Schliep & Peter Beck 83. Scrum Is Also About Improving the Organization Kurt Bittner 84. Networks and Respect Paul Oldfield 85. The Power of Play in a Safe (but Not Too Safe) Environment Jasper Lamers 86. The Trinity of Agile Leadership Marcus Raitner Self-Organization Orientation Humane Leadership What Else? 87. The “MetaScrum” Pattern to Drive Agile Transformation Alan O’Callaghan 88. Scrum and Organizational Design in Practice Fabio Panzavolta 89. Thinking Big James O. Coplien X. Scrum Off Script 90. The Origins of Scrum Might Not Be What You Think They Are Rafael Sabbagh 91. The “Standing Meeting” Bob Warfield 92. Scrum: Problem-Solving and the Scientific Method in Practice Si Alhir 93. Scrum Events Are Rituals to Ensure Good Harvest Jasper Lamers 94. How We Used Scrum to Work with an External Agency Eric Naiburg 95. Scrum Applied in Police Work Sjoerd Kranendonk 96. Born to Be Agile: A Case for Scrum in the Classroom Arno Delhij 97. Agile in Education with eduScrum Willy Wijnands Contributors Scrum Glossary Index