Description
Book SynopsisThe 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 ContentsAbout 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
