The Agile Pocket Guide: A Quick Start to Making Your Business Agile Using Scrum and Beyond
- 1h 14m
- Peter Saddington
- John Wiley & Sons (US)
- 2013
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 tenets 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
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.
In this Book
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Servant Leadership
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What the Business Wants from You—Managing Requirements
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Your Agile Team
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The High-Performance Team
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Everyone Around the Campfire
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Daily Stand-Up, or Daily Scrum
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Introducing the Product Owner, or Value Driver
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Discoveries from the Product Backlog
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The Sprint Backlog and Release Planning
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Sprint Planning Meeting
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User Stories and Estimation
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Timeboxed Sprints (Iterations) and the Meaning of Done
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Tracking Flow and Information Radiators
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Demonstration of the Product
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The Retrospective
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Wash, Rinse, Repeat, Win!
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Team and Business Cultural Dynamics—Team Science™
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Scrum of Scrums
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Thirty-Second Scrum Elevator Pitch
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Understanding Requirements
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Paired Programming—Team Kaizen
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Measuring a Working Product
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Technical Debt is a Progress Killer!
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Oh Kanban!
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Personal Kaizen—More on Servant Leadership
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Team Kaizen—Practicing Agile
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Product Kaizen—The Value Driver for Your Product
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Cultural Kaizen—Leadership in Dynamic Team Cultures
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Conclusion
