Essential Scrum
About this book
A comprehensive reference on Scrum covering roles, activities, artefacts and the principles beneath them, written for people who need the whole picture rather than a quick start. Rubin covers requirements at every level from product down to sprint backlog, technical debt, definition of done, estimation and velocity, release planning, and portfolio planning across multiple products. Heavily illustrated and organised so chapters stand alone as references.
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- The Sprint GoalThe single objective for one Sprint, the Sprint Backlog's commitment, and the only thing in a Sprint the Developers actually promise.
- Ordering the Product BacklogOrder expresses strategy, not preference, and being accountable for it is not the same as doing it yourself.
- How the Scrum Master servesA true leader who serves the Scrum Team, the Product Owner and the organisation, and is accountable for the Scrum Team's effectiveness.
- The IncrementA concrete stepping stone toward the Product Goal, additive to all prior Increments and verified to work together with them.
- The Product BacklogAn emergent, ordered list of what is needed to improve the product, and the single source of work undertaken by the Scrum Team.
- The Scrum TeamOne team of ten or fewer people, with three accountabilities and no sub-teams or hierarchies, responsible for all product-related activities.
- The SprintA fixed-length event of one month or less that contains all the other events, and the container in which ideas turn into value.
- The Definition of DoneThe shared standard for what "finished" means, a commitment to the Increment, and the thing that stops undone work accumulating invisibly.
- Empiricism and the three pillarsScrum is founded on empiricism and lean thinking. Transparency, inspection and adaptation are the pillars that make empirical process control work.