Scrum Science

Download or read book A Scrum Book written by Jeff Sutherland and published by Pragmatic Bookshelf. This book was released on 2019-08-16 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building a successful product usually involves teams of people, and many choose the Scrum approach to aid in creating products that deliver the highest possible value. Implementing Scrum gives teams a collection of powerful ideas they can assemble to fit their needs and meet their goals. The ninety-four patterns contained within are elaborated nuggets of insight into Scrum’s building blocks, how they work, and how to use them. They offer novices a roadmap for starting from scratch, yet they help intermediate practitioners fine-tune or fortify their Scrum implementations. Experienced practitioners can use the patterns and supporting explanations to get a better understanding of how the parts of Scrum complement each other to solve common problems in product development. The patterns are written in the well-known Alexandrian form, whose roots in architecture and design have enjoyed broad application in the software world. The form organizes each pattern so you can navigate directly to organizational design tradeoffs or jump to the solution or rationale that makes the solution work. The patterns flow together naturally through the context sections at their beginning and end. Learn everything you need to know to master and implement Scrum one step at a time—the agile way.

Download or read book Scrum Science written by Samuel Needs and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-26 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scrum Science is a game changer for aspiring rugby players and coaches. It is a theoretical and practical handbook designed for rugby union players and coaches to help develop the fundamental skills required to scrum at an elite level. Learn the fundamentals of scrummaging, including an 8 week season plan for players and coaches of all levels. Accompanying the scrummaging drills is a neck conditioning program suitable for players of all ages. Each scrum drill and neck exercise is accompanied with instructional images to make learning easy to do on your own with minimal equipment. This is a must have for all rugby players involved in the scrum.

Download or read book Zombie Scrum Survival Guide written by Johannes Schartau and published by Addison-Wesley Professional. This book was released on 2020-11-13 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Escape “Zombie Scrum” and Get Real Value from Agile! “Professional Scrum and Zombie Scrum are mortal enemies in eternal combat. If you relax your guard, Zombie Scrum comes back. This guide helps you stay on your guard, providing very practical tips for identifying when you have become a Zombie and how to stop this from happening. A must-have for any Zombie Scrum hunter.” --Dave West, CEO, Scrum.org “Barry, Christiaan, and Johannes have done a magnificent job of accumulating successful experiences and sharing their inspiring stories in this very practical book. They don't shy away from telling it like it is, which is why their proposals are always as useful as they are grounded in reality.” --Henri Lipmanowicz, cofounder, Liberating Structures Millions of professionals use Scrum. It is the #1 approach to agile software development in the world. Even so, by some estimates, over 70% of Scrum adoptions fall flat. Developers find themselves using “Zombie Scrum” processes that look like Scrum, but are slow, lifeless, and joyless. Scrum is just not working for them. Zombie Scrum Survival Guide reveals why Scrum runs aground and shows how to supercharge your Scrum outcomes, while having a lot more fun along the way. Humorous, visual, and extremely relatable, it offers practical approaches, exercises, and tools for escaping Zombie Scrum. Even if you are surrounded by skeptics, this book will be the antidote to help you build more of what users need, ship faster, improve more continuously, interact more successfully in any team, and feel a whole lot better about what you are doing. Suddenly, one day soon, you will remember: that is why we adopted Scrum in the first place! Learn how Zombie Scrum infects you, why it spreads, and how to inoculate yourself Get closer to your stakeholders, and wake up to their understanding of value Discover why Zombie teams can't learn, and what to do about it Clear away the specific obstacles to real continuous improvement Make self-managed teams real so people can behave like humans, not Zombies Zombie Scrum Survival Guide is for Scrum Masters, Scrum practitioners, Agile coaches and leaders, and everyone who wants to transform the promises of Scrum into reality. Register your book for convenient access to downloads, updates, and/or corrections as they become available. See inside book for details.

Download or read book Scrumban Software Maintenance written by Nagesh Rao and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-05-05 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Software Development and Software Maintenance are distinctly different, with respect to the nature of work and execution of these activities. The work types, work sizes, workflow, required skills, and work stages are all different in Software Maintenance. The execution models that are in practice are primarily devised for software development work, and passed on to maintenance teams with the assumption that the work is similar. This mismatch in execution models has made Software Maintenance inefficient and ineffective. Therefore, it is prudent to look at the needs of Software Maintenance, and devise models, processes, and practices that suit its requirements. All these challenges pose great hurdles for Software Maintenance teams; they frequently stop and start work, switch contexts from one work request to another, and try to traverse the work requests through several silos of cross-functional teams. Over time, several execution models have evolved to address these challenges. Most of these follow agile and Lean methodologies. The model discussed in this publication is called Scrumban, a hybrid version of Kanban and Scrum. This version leverages the features of both models to Stop Starting to keep the work in progress at the minimum and Start Finishing to reduce the end-to-end lead time. This publication describes five steps to implement Scrumban in any Software Maintenance project. Who this book is for: This book is primarily written for anyone working on Software Maintenance projects - project managers, team leads, process coaches, technology analysts, designers, programmers, testers, and other change agents of the software engineering process groups. Just to make it simple, if your answer is "yes" to one or more of the following questions, then this book is for you: 1.Is your Software Maintenance and Support team always working on high priority work items? 2.Are there work items which need to be delivered on time without being impacted by unplanned and emergency work items? 3.Does your team miss or postpone release dates more often than usual? How this book is organized" This book is divided into three main parts: Problem, Solution, and Implementation. Each part is further divided into several chapters. Part I - The Problem section describes the needs and complexities of Software Maintenance. What makes Software Maintenance different from Software Development? What are the characteristics that make it complex? This section concludes with a discussion of the changing needs and complexities of Software Maintenance. Part II- The Solution section describes the execution models currently in practice for Software Maintenance - Traditional Waterfall and Scrum. It also discusses combining Agile and Lean practices to address the needs of Software Maintenance. Lastly, this section develops the most suitable framework for addressing the challenges described earlier. Part III - The Implementation section describes the five steps needed to implement Scrumban in Software Maintenance. Though it may not serve as a cookbook, this section helps in setting the direction for teams to define their own version of the Scrumban method to Stop Starting and Start Finishing.

Download or read book The Science of Rugby written by Craig Twist and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-05 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coaches, practitioners and medical staff working in the worldwide sport of rugby will frequently apply scientific principles to their programmes to inform the practice, performance, health, well-being and development of their athletes. This book explores the scientific principles underpinning the preparation and management of rugby players in both codes and modified versions of the sport. Applied examples are also provided throughout to understand the practical application of the material in a real-world context. This new edition of The Science of Rugby offers a significant contribution to the field of rugby science that will act as a useful resource to scientists, coaches, practitioners and students interested in rugby. New chapters and key topics include: Physical and psychological preparation for rugby Planning and monitoring of training Managing fatigue, recovery and nutrition Effects of different environmental conditions and travel on performance The mechanics of rugby techniques and injury Young players and talent identification Considerations for training the female rugby player Modified rugby, including rugby sevens, touch, tag and wheelchair rugby No other book bridges the gap between theory and applied practice in rugby, from grass roots to elite international standard, and therefore this is essential reading for any student, researcher, sport scientist, coach, physiotherapist or clinician with an interest in the game.

Download or read book Scrum written by Jeff Sutherland and published by Crown Currency. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The revolutionary “Red Book” that helped a generation work smarter, better, and faster—now expanded and updated with new stories, new ideas, and new methods to radically improve the way you and your company deliver results If you’ve ever been startled by how fast the world is changing, the Scrum framework is one of the reasons why. Productivity gains in workflow of as much as 1,200 percent have been recorded, and there’s no more lucid—or compelling—explainer of Scrum and its bright promise than Jeff Sutherland. The thorny problem that Sutherland began tackling back then boils down to this: People are spectacularly bad at doing things with agility and efficiency. Best-laid plans go up in smoke. Teams often work at cross-purposes to one another. And when the pressure rises, unhappiness soars. Woven with insights from martial arts, judicial decision making, advanced aerial combat, robotics, and Sutherland’s experience as a West Point–educated fighter pilot, a biometrics expert, a medical researcher, an early innovator of ATM technology, and a C-level executive at eleven different technology companies, this book will take you to Scrum’s front lines, where Sutherland’s system has brought the FBI into the twenty-first century, helped support John Deere’s supply chain amid a global pandemic and supply chain shortage, reduced poverty in the Third World, and even planned weddings and accomplished weekend chores. The way we work has changed dramatically since Sutherland first introduced Scrum a decade ago. This urgent update shares new insights and provides new tools to take advantage of the radical productivity that Scrum delivers. Sutherland will show you how to optimize working with artificial intelligence and share the latest cognitive science research on culture, psychological safety, diversity, and happiness, and how these factors drive performance, innovation, and overall organizational health. This new edition contains a decade of lessons learned. Whether it’s ten years ago, now, or ten years into the future, the Scrum framework is guaranteed to help you deliver results. But the most important reason to read this book is that it may just help you achieve what others consider unachievable.

Download or read book Agile Project Management with Scrum written by Ken Schwaber and published by Microsoft Press. This book was released on 2004-02-11 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rules and practices for Scrum—a simple process for managing complex projects—are few, straightforward, and easy to learn. But Scrum’s simplicity itself—its lack of prescription—can be disarming, and new practitioners often find themselves reverting to old project management habits and tools and yielding lesser results. In this illuminating series of case studies, Scrum co-creator and evangelist Ken Schwaber identifies the real-world lessons—the successes and failures—culled from his years of experience coaching companies in agile project management. Through them, you’ll understand how to use Scrum to solve complex problems and drive better results—delivering more valuable software faster. Gain the foundation in Scrum theory—and practice—you need to: Rein in even the most complex, unwieldy projects Effectively manage unknown or changing product requirements Simplify the chain of command with self-managing development teams Receive clearer specifications—and feedback—from customers Greatly reduce project planning time and required tools Build—and release—products in 30-day cycles so clients get deliverables earlier Avoid missteps by regularly inspecting, reporting on, and fine-tuning projects Support multiple teams working on a large-scale project from many geographic locations Maximize return on investment!