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Informationen zum Autor Kenneth S. Rubin provides Scrum and Agile training and coaching to help companies develop products more effectively and economically. A Certified Scrum Trainer, he has trained more than eighteen thousand people on Agile and Scrum, Smalltalk development, managing object-oriented projects, and transition management. He has coached hundreds of companies, ranging from startups to the Fortune 10. Rubin was the first Managing Director of the worldwide Scrum Alliance, a nonprofit organization focused on successful Scrum adoption. His diverse development roles have included successful stints as Scrum product owner, ScrumMaster, and developer. Rubin’s executive management roles have included CEO, COO, VP of Engineering, VP of Product Management, and VP of Professional Services. He is the author of Succeeding with Objects (Addison-Wesley, 1995). Klappentext This easy-to-read, easy-to-us Zusammenfassung A Practical Guide to the Most Popular Agile Process The Single-Source, Comprehensive Guide to Scrum for All Team Members, Managers, and Executives If you want to use Scrum to develop innovative products and services that delight your customers, Essential Scrum is the complete, single-source reference you’ve been searching for. Leading Scrum coach and trainer Kenny Rubin illuminates the values, principles, and practices of Scrum, and describes flexible, proven approaches that can help you implement it far more effectively. Whether you are new to Scrum or years into your use, this book will introduce, clarify, and deepen your Scrum knowledge at the team, product, and portfolio levels. Drawing from Rubin’s experience helping hundreds of organizations succeed with Scrum, this book provides easy-to-digest descriptions enhanced by more than two hundred illustrations based on an entirely new visual icon language for describing Scrum’s roles, artifacts, and activities. Essential Scrum will provide every team member, manager, and executive with a common understanding of Scrum, a shared vocabulary they can use in applying it, and practical knowledge for deriving maximum value from it. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures xxv Foreword by Mike Cohn xxxi Foreword by Ron Jeffries xxxiii Preface xxxv Acknowledgments xxxix About the Author xliii Chapter 1: Introduction 1 What Is Scrum? 1 Scrum Origins 3 Why Scrum? 4 Genomica Results 4 Can Scrum Help You? 5 Closing 10 Part I: Core Concepts 11 Chapter 2: Scrum Framework 13 Overview 13 Scrum Roles 14 Scrum Activities and Artifacts 16 Closing 28 Chapter 3: Agile Principles 29 Overview 29 Variability and Uncertainty 32 Prediction and Adaptation 37 Just-in-Time Work 43 Validated Learning 44 Work in Process (WIP) 48 Progress 54 Performance 56 Closing 58 Chapter 4: Sprints 61 Overview 61 Timeboxed 62 Short Duration 64 Consistent Duration 67 No Goal-Altering Changes 69 Definition of Done 74 Closing 78 Chapter 5: Requirements and User Stories 79 Overview 79 Using Conversations 81 Progressive Refinement 82 What Are User Stories? 83 Level of Detail 86 INVEST in Good Stories 88 Nonfunctional Requirements 93 Knowledge-Acquisition Stories 93 Gathering Stories 95 Closing 98 Chapter 6: Product Backlog 99 Overview 99 Product Backlog Items 100 Good Product Backlog Characteristics 101 Grooming 104 Definition of Ready 108 Flow Management 110 Which and How Many Product Backl...
