Product Overview
Today, in corporate world, everyone is talking about Scrum. Major companies like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, IBM, Deloitte, American Express, and many more have adopted Scrum concepts. This book is written to provide a simplified handbook to you such that you can familiarize yourself with the most popular Agile process framework to build complex software products.
Scrum is widely defined as an iterative or incremental process framework to build complex products of highest possible value. It is an incremental approach to develop a product through successive improvements.
What will you Learn with this Book?
- What Is Scrum?
- Why Scrum?
- What are the problems with traditional plan-driven waterfall approach?
- What are the different Scrum roles and their responsibilities?
- What are the Scrum ceremonies and how to conduct them?
- What is the difference between a Product Backlog and a Sprint Backlog?
- What is a potentially shippable product increment?
- How do document the feedback from Sprint Retrospectives?
- What is Agile Manifesto?
- What is the difference between traditional approach and the iterative Agile Scrum approach?
- What is a Sprint?
- What are the benefits of Time Boxing?
- What are the benefits of Short Duration Sprints?
- What are the benefits of consistent duration Sprints?
- What is a Sprint Goal?
- What is Definition of Done?
- What is a User Story?
- How should you write good User Stories?
- How should you discover the User Stories?
- Can I refer to some sample User Stories?
- What is a Technical Debt?
- What are the main causes of Technical Debt?
- What are the consequences of Technical Debt?
- How do you manage Technical Debt?
- What are some of the practical examples of Technical Debt?
- What are some of the practical techniques to manage Technical Debt?
- Why do we need to estimate the work?
- What are different estimation units?
- What are different estimation techniques?
- What is velocity and how to measure the same?
- What is the difference between velocity and productivity?
- What is Release Burndown Chart? How can I see a sample Release Burndown Chart?
- What is Release Burnup Chart? How can I see a sample Release Burnup Chart?
- What is a Sprint Burndown Chart? How can I refer to a sample Sprint Burndown Chart?
- What is a Sprint Burnup Chart? How can I get a sample Sprint Burnup Chart?
- What is a Velocity Chart?
- What is a Kanban Board?
Who Should Read This Book?
- Experienced Project Managers
- Aspiring Project Managers
- Business Analysts
- Developers or Programmers
- Test Managers and Engineers
- Business Project Managers or Leads
- Business and Technical Leaders
- Subject Matter Experts
- Students seeking an IT job
- Anyone who needs to learn the most popular Agile framework to expand career opportunities.
- Anyone who needs a short and simple reference book on Scrum.
- Anyone who doesnt have time to read large detailed books on Scrum.
- Anyone who needs to understand Scrum before enrolling into a training or a certification course.
