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The Agile Pocket Guide explains how to develop products, services, and software quickly and efficiently, without losing the main components of the framework so effective in streamlining the creating of these products and for making positive change within a company. It includes The basic tennets of the Scrum framework How to apply the processes and steps required to become agile The dynamics of a successful agile environment The very basics of Scrum and how to employ them quickly Practical questions to ask the Team Leader as well as the Team How to build an environment of communication and collaboration for the entire organization

Table of Contents:
About the Author vii Preface ix Acknowledgments xvii Introduction Team Tribes: A Story xix 1 Servant Leadership 1 2 What the Business Wants from You—Managing Requirements 5 3 Your Agile Team 9 4 The High-Performance Team 13 5 Everyone around the Campfire 17 6 Daily Stand-Up, or Daily Scrum 25 7 Introducing the Product Owner, or Value Driver 31 8 Discoveries from the Product Backlog 37 9 The Sprint Backlog and Release Planning 43 10 Sprint Planning Meeting 49 11 User Stories and Estimation 55 12 Timeboxed Sprints (Iterations) and the Meaning of Done 67 13 Tracking Flow and Information Radiators 73 14 Demonstration of the Product 79 15 The Retrospective 85 16 Wash, Rinse, Repeat, Win! 89 17 Team and Business Cultural Dynamics—Team ScienceTM 95 18 Scrum of Scrums 101 19 Thirty-Second Scrum Elevator Pitch 105 20 Understanding Requirements 109 21 Paired Programming—Team Kaizen 115 22 Measuring a Working Product 121 23 Technical Debt Is a Progress Killer! 127 24 Oh Kanban! 131 25 Personal Kaizen—More on Servant Leadership 137 26 Team Kaizen—Practicing Agile 143 27 Product Kaizen—The Value Driver for Your Product 147 28 Cultural Kaizen—Leadership in Dynamic Team Cultures 155 29 Conclusion 159 Index 161

About the Author :
PETER SADDINGTON owns a successful research and analytics consultancy and has been integral in multi-million dollar Agile Transformation projects with some of the biggest Fortune 500 companies, including Cisco, T-Mobile, Capital One, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Aetna, Primedia, and Cbeyond. He is a sought-after speaker at many industry events and is a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST). He has also received three master's degrees, one of which is in counseling, and provides life-coaching services in addition to his consultancy.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781118461808
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: A Quick Start to Making Your Business Agile Using Scrum and Beyond
  • ISBN-10: 1118461800
  • Publisher Date: 14 Nov 2012
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 192


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