Scrum For Dummies
2nd Edition
Published on 6. July 2018
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Paperback/Softback
416 pages
978-1-119-46764-9 (ISBN)
Description
Use scrum in all aspects of life
Scrum is an agile project management framework that allows for flexibility and collaboration to be a part of your workflow. Primarily used by software developers, scrum can be used across many job functions and industries. Scrum can also be used in your personal life to help you plan for retirement, a trip, or even a wedding or other big event.
Scrum provides a small set of rules that create just enough structure for teams to be able to focus their innovation on solving what might otherwise be an insurmountable challenge. Scrum For Dummies shows you how to assemble a scrum taskforce and use it to implement this popular Agile methodology to make projects in your professional and personal life run more smoothly-from start to finish.
Discover what scrum offers project and product teams
Integrate scrum into your agile project management strategy
Plan your retirement or a family reunion using scrum
Prioritize for releases with sprints
No matter your career path or job title, the principles of scrum are designed to make your life easier. Why not give it a try?
Scrum is an agile project management framework that allows for flexibility and collaboration to be a part of your workflow. Primarily used by software developers, scrum can be used across many job functions and industries. Scrum can also be used in your personal life to help you plan for retirement, a trip, or even a wedding or other big event.
Scrum provides a small set of rules that create just enough structure for teams to be able to focus their innovation on solving what might otherwise be an insurmountable challenge. Scrum For Dummies shows you how to assemble a scrum taskforce and use it to implement this popular Agile methodology to make projects in your professional and personal life run more smoothly-from start to finish.
Discover what scrum offers project and product teams
Integrate scrum into your agile project management strategy
Plan your retirement or a family reunion using scrum
Prioritize for releases with sprints
No matter your career path or job title, the principles of scrum are designed to make your life easier. Why not give it a try?
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Mark C. Layton, "Mr. Agile (R)," is an executive and BoD advisor. He is the Los Angeles chair for the Agile Leadership Network, a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST), and founder of agile transformation firm Platinum Edge. Mark is also coauthor of Agile Project Management For Dummies. David Morrow is a Certified Scrum Professional (CSP), Certified Agile Coach (ICP-ACC), and an executive agile coach.
Content
Introduction 1
About This Book 1
Foolish Assumptions 2
Conventions Used in This Book 2
Icons Used in This Book 3
Beyond the Book 4
Where to Go from Here 4
Part 1: Getting Started With Scrum 5
Chapter 1: The Basics of Scrum 7
The Bird's-Eye Basics 8
Roadmap to value 8
Scrum overview 10
Scrum teams 11
Governance 12
Scrum framework 12
The Feedback Feast 15
Agile Roots 16
Three pillars of improvement 16
One Agile Manifesto 17
Twelve Agile Principles 18
Three platinum principles 20
The Five Scrum Values 22
Commitment 23
Focus 23
Openness 24
Respect 24
Courage 24
Part 2: Running A Scrum Project 25
Chapter 2: The First Steps 27
Getting Your Scrum On 28
Show me the money 28
I want it now 30
I'm not sure what I want 30
Is that bug a problem? 31
Your company's culture 31
The Power in the Product Owner 32
Why Product Owners Love Scrum 34
The Company Goal and Strategy: Stage 1 35
Structuring your vision 36
Finding the crosshair 37
The Scrum Master 38
Scrum master traits 38
Scrum master as servant leader 39
Why scrum masters love scrum 40
Common Roles Outside Scrum 42
Stakeholders 42
Scrum mentors 43
Chapter 3: Planning Your Project 45
The Product Roadmap: Stage 2 46
Take the long view 46
Use simple tools 47
Create your product roadmap 48
Set your time frame 49
Breaking Down Requirements 50
Prioritization of requirements 50
Levels of decomposition 51
Seven steps of requirement building 52
Your Product Backlog 53
The dynamic to-do list 55
Product backlog refinement 55
Other possible backlog items 59
Product Backlog Common Practices 59
User stories 59
Further refinement 62
Chapter 4: The Talent and the Timing 63
The Development Team 64
The uniqueness of scrum development teams 64
Dedicated teams and cross-functionality 65
Self-organizing and self-managing 68
Co-locating or the nearest thing 69
Getting the Edge on Backlog Estimation 70
Your Definition of Done 71
Common Practices for Estimating 73
Fibonacci numbers and story points 74
Velocity 80
Chapter 5: Release and Sprint Planning 83
Release Plan Basics: Stage 3 84
Prioritize, prioritize, prioritize 86
Release goals 88
Release sprints 89
Release plan in practice 90
Sprinting to Your Goals 92
Defining sprints 92
Planning sprint length 93
Following the sprint life cycle 95
Planning Your Sprints: Stage 4 97
Sprint goals 97
Phase I 98
Phase II 98
Your Sprint Backlog 99
The burndown chart benefit 100
Setting backlog capacity 101
Working the sprint backlog 103
Prioritizing sprints 104
Chapter 6: Getting the Most Out of Sprints 107
The Daily Scrum: Stage 5 108
Defining the daily scrum 108
Scheduling a daily scrum 110
Conducting a daily scrum 110
Making daily scrums more effective 111
Team Task Board 112
Swarming 114
Dealing with rejection 115
Handling unfinished requirements 117
The Sprint Review: Stage 6 117
The sprint review process 118
Stakeholder feedback 119
Product increments 120
The Sprint Retrospective: Stage 7 120
The sprint retrospective process 121
The Derby and Larsen process 122
Inspection and adaptation 124
Chapter 7: Inspect and Adapt: How to Correct Your Course 125
Need for Certainty 125
The Feedback Loop 126
Transparency 128
Antipatterns 129
External Forces 130
In-Flight Course Correction 130
Testing in the Feedback Loop 131
Culture of Innovation 132
Part 3: Scrum For Industry 135
Chapter 8: Software Development 137
Scrum and Software Development: A Natural Fit 138
Software Flexibility and Refactoring 140
Release often and on demand 141
Customize your release sizes 141
Inspect and adapt as you release 142
Embracing Change 142
Development team challenges 143
Business alignment with technology 143
Up-front engineering 145
Emergent architecture 146
Scrum Applications in Software 147
Video-game development 148
Services 151
Customization projects 152
Chapter 9: Tangible Goods Production 155
The Fall of Waterfall 156
Construction 157
The best in bids 157
Scrum roles in construction 158
Customer involvement 159
The subcontractor dilemma 160
Worker safety 161
Scrum in Home Building 163
Manufacturing 164
Survival of the fastest to market 165
Shareholder value 165
Strategic capacity management 166
Hardware Development 167
Early identification of high-risk requirements 167
Live hardware development 167
Chapter 10: Services 171
Health Care and Scrum 171
Speed to market 173
Reduced mistakes, increased quality 175
Cost cutting 176
Adhering to regulations 177
Medical device manufacturing and safety 178
Education and Scrum 180
Challenges in education 180
Scrum in the classroom 183
Military and Law Enforcement 186
Chapter 11: Publishing: A Shifting Landscape 189
A Changing Landscape in Publishing 190
Inspecting, adapting, and refactoring 190
Applying scrum 192
News Media and Scrum 194
Defining done for content 195
The news-media scrum team 196
Sprint flexibility 197
Part 4: Scrum For Business Functions 199
Chapter 12: IT Management and Operations 201
Big Data and Large-Scale Migration 202
Data warehouse project management 203
Enterprise resource planning 205
The Service-versus-Control Conundrum 208
Security challenges 209
The Retiring-Boomer Gap 210
Profit-and-Loss Potential 211
Innovation versus Stability 212
DevOps 212
Maintenance 213
Kanban within a scrum structure 214
Chapter 13: Portfolio Management 219
Portfolio Management Challenges 220
People allocation and prioritization 220
Dependencies and fragmentation 222
Disconnect between projects and business objectives 222
Displaced accountability 223
Scrum solutions 223
Lean Startup 225
Scaling Scrum for Large Portfolios 228
A Vertical Slicing Overview 228
Scrum of Scrums 230
Product owner scrum of scrums 230
Development team scrum of scrums 231
Scrum master scrum of scrums 231
Scrum at Scale 232
Scaling the scrum master 233
Scaling the product owner 234
Synchronizing in one hour a day 236
Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) 237
Portfolio 238
Program 238
Team 239
Advantages of the SAFe Model 239
TDD and CI 239
Code quality 240
Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS) 241
LeSS framework 242
LeSS Huge framework 243
Chapter 14: Human Resources and Finance 247
Human Resources and Scrum 248
Creating the Right Culture 249
HR and existing organization structures 250
HR and scrum in hiring 252
Performance reviews 253
Finance 258
Incremental funding 258
Statements of position (SOP) 261
Scrum and budgets 261
Chapter 15: Business Development 263
Scrum and Marketing 264
Marketing evolution 264
Scrum and social media 265
Scrum in marketing 266
Scrum in Action for Marketing 267
CafePress 268
Xerox 268
Scrum for Sales 269
The scrum solution 270
The scrum sales process 272
Chapter 16: Customer Service 277
Customers: The Most Crucial Stakeholders 278
The service conundrum 278
Information overload 279
Scrum and Customer Service 280
Inspect and adapt through feedback 280
Customer service product backlog 281
Customer service definition of done 282
Look inward 283
Inspect and adapt in practice 284
Scrum in Action in Customer Service 285
Part 5: Scrum For Everyday Life 287
Chapter 17: Dating and Family Life 289
Finding Love with Scrum 290
Setting a vision 291
Dating in layers 292
Discovering companionship and scrum 293
Dating with scrum 294
Winning as a team 295
Focusing versus multitasking 296
Planning your wedding with scrum 298
Families and Scrum 299
Setting family strategy and project visions 300
Planning and setting priorities 300
Communicating with scrum 303
Inspecting and adapting for families 304
Making chores fun and easy 305
Chapter 18: Scrum for Life Goals 307
Getting to Retirement 307
Saving for emergencies 308
Building retirement 309
Securing financial freedom 310
Retiring debt 312
Achieving Fitness and Weight Goals 312
Keeping Life Balance 314
Planning Travel 316
Studying 319
Learning early 319
Graduating from high school 320
Achieving in college 323
Part 6: The Part of Tens 325
Chapter 19: Ten Steps to Transition to Scrum 327
Conduct an Audit 327
Identify and Recruit Talent 328
Ensure Proper Training 329
Mobilize a Transition Team 329
Identify Pilot Project 330
Maximize Environment Efficiency 332
Reduce Single Points of Failure 332
Establish Definition of Done 333
Kick Off Pilot Project 333
Inspect, Adapt, Mature, and Scale 334
Inspect and adapt sprint 1 335
Maturity 335
Scale virally 336
Chapter 20: Ten Pitfalls to Avoid 337
Faux Scrum 337
Lack of Training 338
Ineffective Product Owner 338
Lack of Automated Testing 338
Lack of Transition Support 339
Inappropriate Environment 339
Poor Team Selection 340
Lax Discipline 340
Lack of Support for Learning 340
Watered-Down Process 341
Chapter 21: Ten Key Benefits of Scrum 343
Better Quality 343
Decreased Time to Market 344
Increased Return on Investment 344
Higher Customer Satisfaction 345
Higher Team Morale 345
Increased Collaboration and Ownership 347
More Relevant Metrics 347
Improved Progress Visibility and Exposure 348
Increased Project Control 349
Reduced Risk 350
Chapter 22: Ten Key Metrics for Scrum 351
Sprint Goal Success Rates 352
Defects 352
Time to Market 353
Return on Investment 354
Total project duration and cost 355
New requests within ROI budgets 355
Capital Redeployment 355
Satisfaction Surveys 356
Team Member Turnover 357
Project Attrition 358
Skill Versatility 358
Manager:Creator Ratio 359
Chapter 23: Ten Key Resources for Scrum 361
Scrum Alliance 361
The Agile Alliance 362
Scrumguides.org 362
Scrum.org 363
Scruminc.com (Scrum at Scale) 363
ScrumPLoP 363
Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) 363
LeSS 364
InfoQ 364
Platinum Edge 364
Index 367
About This Book 1
Foolish Assumptions 2
Conventions Used in This Book 2
Icons Used in This Book 3
Beyond the Book 4
Where to Go from Here 4
Part 1: Getting Started With Scrum 5
Chapter 1: The Basics of Scrum 7
The Bird's-Eye Basics 8
Roadmap to value 8
Scrum overview 10
Scrum teams 11
Governance 12
Scrum framework 12
The Feedback Feast 15
Agile Roots 16
Three pillars of improvement 16
One Agile Manifesto 17
Twelve Agile Principles 18
Three platinum principles 20
The Five Scrum Values 22
Commitment 23
Focus 23
Openness 24
Respect 24
Courage 24
Part 2: Running A Scrum Project 25
Chapter 2: The First Steps 27
Getting Your Scrum On 28
Show me the money 28
I want it now 30
I'm not sure what I want 30
Is that bug a problem? 31
Your company's culture 31
The Power in the Product Owner 32
Why Product Owners Love Scrum 34
The Company Goal and Strategy: Stage 1 35
Structuring your vision 36
Finding the crosshair 37
The Scrum Master 38
Scrum master traits 38
Scrum master as servant leader 39
Why scrum masters love scrum 40
Common Roles Outside Scrum 42
Stakeholders 42
Scrum mentors 43
Chapter 3: Planning Your Project 45
The Product Roadmap: Stage 2 46
Take the long view 46
Use simple tools 47
Create your product roadmap 48
Set your time frame 49
Breaking Down Requirements 50
Prioritization of requirements 50
Levels of decomposition 51
Seven steps of requirement building 52
Your Product Backlog 53
The dynamic to-do list 55
Product backlog refinement 55
Other possible backlog items 59
Product Backlog Common Practices 59
User stories 59
Further refinement 62
Chapter 4: The Talent and the Timing 63
The Development Team 64
The uniqueness of scrum development teams 64
Dedicated teams and cross-functionality 65
Self-organizing and self-managing 68
Co-locating or the nearest thing 69
Getting the Edge on Backlog Estimation 70
Your Definition of Done 71
Common Practices for Estimating 73
Fibonacci numbers and story points 74
Velocity 80
Chapter 5: Release and Sprint Planning 83
Release Plan Basics: Stage 3 84
Prioritize, prioritize, prioritize 86
Release goals 88
Release sprints 89
Release plan in practice 90
Sprinting to Your Goals 92
Defining sprints 92
Planning sprint length 93
Following the sprint life cycle 95
Planning Your Sprints: Stage 4 97
Sprint goals 97
Phase I 98
Phase II 98
Your Sprint Backlog 99
The burndown chart benefit 100
Setting backlog capacity 101
Working the sprint backlog 103
Prioritizing sprints 104
Chapter 6: Getting the Most Out of Sprints 107
The Daily Scrum: Stage 5 108
Defining the daily scrum 108
Scheduling a daily scrum 110
Conducting a daily scrum 110
Making daily scrums more effective 111
Team Task Board 112
Swarming 114
Dealing with rejection 115
Handling unfinished requirements 117
The Sprint Review: Stage 6 117
The sprint review process 118
Stakeholder feedback 119
Product increments 120
The Sprint Retrospective: Stage 7 120
The sprint retrospective process 121
The Derby and Larsen process 122
Inspection and adaptation 124
Chapter 7: Inspect and Adapt: How to Correct Your Course 125
Need for Certainty 125
The Feedback Loop 126
Transparency 128
Antipatterns 129
External Forces 130
In-Flight Course Correction 130
Testing in the Feedback Loop 131
Culture of Innovation 132
Part 3: Scrum For Industry 135
Chapter 8: Software Development 137
Scrum and Software Development: A Natural Fit 138
Software Flexibility and Refactoring 140
Release often and on demand 141
Customize your release sizes 141
Inspect and adapt as you release 142
Embracing Change 142
Development team challenges 143
Business alignment with technology 143
Up-front engineering 145
Emergent architecture 146
Scrum Applications in Software 147
Video-game development 148
Services 151
Customization projects 152
Chapter 9: Tangible Goods Production 155
The Fall of Waterfall 156
Construction 157
The best in bids 157
Scrum roles in construction 158
Customer involvement 159
The subcontractor dilemma 160
Worker safety 161
Scrum in Home Building 163
Manufacturing 164
Survival of the fastest to market 165
Shareholder value 165
Strategic capacity management 166
Hardware Development 167
Early identification of high-risk requirements 167
Live hardware development 167
Chapter 10: Services 171
Health Care and Scrum 171
Speed to market 173
Reduced mistakes, increased quality 175
Cost cutting 176
Adhering to regulations 177
Medical device manufacturing and safety 178
Education and Scrum 180
Challenges in education 180
Scrum in the classroom 183
Military and Law Enforcement 186
Chapter 11: Publishing: A Shifting Landscape 189
A Changing Landscape in Publishing 190
Inspecting, adapting, and refactoring 190
Applying scrum 192
News Media and Scrum 194
Defining done for content 195
The news-media scrum team 196
Sprint flexibility 197
Part 4: Scrum For Business Functions 199
Chapter 12: IT Management and Operations 201
Big Data and Large-Scale Migration 202
Data warehouse project management 203
Enterprise resource planning 205
The Service-versus-Control Conundrum 208
Security challenges 209
The Retiring-Boomer Gap 210
Profit-and-Loss Potential 211
Innovation versus Stability 212
DevOps 212
Maintenance 213
Kanban within a scrum structure 214
Chapter 13: Portfolio Management 219
Portfolio Management Challenges 220
People allocation and prioritization 220
Dependencies and fragmentation 222
Disconnect between projects and business objectives 222
Displaced accountability 223
Scrum solutions 223
Lean Startup 225
Scaling Scrum for Large Portfolios 228
A Vertical Slicing Overview 228
Scrum of Scrums 230
Product owner scrum of scrums 230
Development team scrum of scrums 231
Scrum master scrum of scrums 231
Scrum at Scale 232
Scaling the scrum master 233
Scaling the product owner 234
Synchronizing in one hour a day 236
Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) 237
Portfolio 238
Program 238
Team 239
Advantages of the SAFe Model 239
TDD and CI 239
Code quality 240
Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS) 241
LeSS framework 242
LeSS Huge framework 243
Chapter 14: Human Resources and Finance 247
Human Resources and Scrum 248
Creating the Right Culture 249
HR and existing organization structures 250
HR and scrum in hiring 252
Performance reviews 253
Finance 258
Incremental funding 258
Statements of position (SOP) 261
Scrum and budgets 261
Chapter 15: Business Development 263
Scrum and Marketing 264
Marketing evolution 264
Scrum and social media 265
Scrum in marketing 266
Scrum in Action for Marketing 267
CafePress 268
Xerox 268
Scrum for Sales 269
The scrum solution 270
The scrum sales process 272
Chapter 16: Customer Service 277
Customers: The Most Crucial Stakeholders 278
The service conundrum 278
Information overload 279
Scrum and Customer Service 280
Inspect and adapt through feedback 280
Customer service product backlog 281
Customer service definition of done 282
Look inward 283
Inspect and adapt in practice 284
Scrum in Action in Customer Service 285
Part 5: Scrum For Everyday Life 287
Chapter 17: Dating and Family Life 289
Finding Love with Scrum 290
Setting a vision 291
Dating in layers 292
Discovering companionship and scrum 293
Dating with scrum 294
Winning as a team 295
Focusing versus multitasking 296
Planning your wedding with scrum 298
Families and Scrum 299
Setting family strategy and project visions 300
Planning and setting priorities 300
Communicating with scrum 303
Inspecting and adapting for families 304
Making chores fun and easy 305
Chapter 18: Scrum for Life Goals 307
Getting to Retirement 307
Saving for emergencies 308
Building retirement 309
Securing financial freedom 310
Retiring debt 312
Achieving Fitness and Weight Goals 312
Keeping Life Balance 314
Planning Travel 316
Studying 319
Learning early 319
Graduating from high school 320
Achieving in college 323
Part 6: The Part of Tens 325
Chapter 19: Ten Steps to Transition to Scrum 327
Conduct an Audit 327
Identify and Recruit Talent 328
Ensure Proper Training 329
Mobilize a Transition Team 329
Identify Pilot Project 330
Maximize Environment Efficiency 332
Reduce Single Points of Failure 332
Establish Definition of Done 333
Kick Off Pilot Project 333
Inspect, Adapt, Mature, and Scale 334
Inspect and adapt sprint 1 335
Maturity 335
Scale virally 336
Chapter 20: Ten Pitfalls to Avoid 337
Faux Scrum 337
Lack of Training 338
Ineffective Product Owner 338
Lack of Automated Testing 338
Lack of Transition Support 339
Inappropriate Environment 339
Poor Team Selection 340
Lax Discipline 340
Lack of Support for Learning 340
Watered-Down Process 341
Chapter 21: Ten Key Benefits of Scrum 343
Better Quality 343
Decreased Time to Market 344
Increased Return on Investment 344
Higher Customer Satisfaction 345
Higher Team Morale 345
Increased Collaboration and Ownership 347
More Relevant Metrics 347
Improved Progress Visibility and Exposure 348
Increased Project Control 349
Reduced Risk 350
Chapter 22: Ten Key Metrics for Scrum 351
Sprint Goal Success Rates 352
Defects 352
Time to Market 353
Return on Investment 354
Total project duration and cost 355
New requests within ROI budgets 355
Capital Redeployment 355
Satisfaction Surveys 356
Team Member Turnover 357
Project Attrition 358
Skill Versatility 358
Manager:Creator Ratio 359
Chapter 23: Ten Key Resources for Scrum 361
Scrum Alliance 361
The Agile Alliance 362
Scrumguides.org 362
Scrum.org 363
Scruminc.com (Scrum at Scale) 363
ScrumPLoP 363
Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) 363
LeSS 364
InfoQ 364
Platinum Edge 364
Index 367