Professional Scrum Team, The: (The Professional Scrum Series)

The Practical Guide to Optimizing Product Value through Better Teamwork with Scrum “Professional Scrum is hard, not because the ideas are hard, but because it requires persistence, focus, and dedication to not let the day-to-day realities get in the way. In this book, Peter, Uwe, and Kurt have provided a collection of materials to help the Scrum Team deliver value and feel happy doing it.” --Dave West, CEO and Product Owner, Scrum.org Teams and individuals find the rules of the Scrum Framework to be easy to describe but challenging to implement. The Professional Scrum Team helps you bring the Scrum Framework rules to life in your everyday work, optimizing both team and individual performance and creating more value. Three leading Scrum experts bring together proven practices based on decades of real-life experience participating in, leading, and supporting Scrum Teams. They introduce a team as it starts out with Scrum and follow it as it gains hard-won practical experience, gradually mastering the intense collaboration that Scrum demands. As you share the team's experience--facing and overcoming realistic challenges--you'll discover better ways to work together, enhance your practices, leverage tools, continuously improve, and deliver functionality in ever-shorter cycles. Understand how Scrum Teams work, collaborate, and promote transparency Explore common problems that lead less experienced Scrum Teams to give up Find your Scrum Team's best approach to solving complex adaptive problems Integrate DevOps practices with Scrum to improve effectiveness Productively and professionally resolve conflicts that arise from close collaboration Help your organization learn how to improve its results by better supporting its Scrum Teams This guide is for anyone who works with Scrum Teams or wants to become more effective as a Scrum Team member or leader. Register your book for convenient access to downloads, updates, and/or corrections as they become available. See inside book for details.

Table of Contents:
Foreword xi Introduction xv Acknowledgments xxi About the Authors xxv Chapter 1: Being an Effective Scrum Team 1 Collaboration Between Product Owner and Development Team 3 Creating Transparency as a Scrum Team 10 Summary 25 Chapter 2: Common Problems 27 Missing Basics 29 Common Misunderstandings about Scrum 38 Avoidable Errors 46 Summary 54 Chapter 3: Scrum Is Not Enough 55 Strategy: Take Care of the Big Picture 56 Tactics: Work from Idea to Result 62 How to Improve Cross-functionality 71 Coping with Constant Change 77 Summary 83 Chapter 4: Releasable Is Less Than Released 85 What Is DevOps? 86 How to Combine Scrum and DevOps 91 Summary 99 Chapter 5: Resolving Conflict 101 Conflict That Can Be Solved by People Involved 102 Conflict That Needs Outside Intervention 107 Toxic Conflict That Needs Stronger Intervention 114 Summary 119 Chapter 6: Measure Success 121 Working Toward Goals 122 Improving Team Results 132 Summary 141 Chapter 7: Scrum and Management 143 The Role of Management in Scrum 144 How to Enable Self-organization 148 Summary 152 Chapter 8: The Agile Organization 153 Organizational Structures Can Either Help or Hinder Scrum 154 Complex Organizations Need Radical Simplicity 159 Summary 164 Chapter 9: Continuous Improvement Never Stops 167 How to Keep Improvement Continuous 168 Retrospectives as the Driver for Improvement 173 Will Scrum Ever Be Complete? 176 Summary 182 Bibliography 183 Index 185