The Scrum Field Guide

The Scrum Field Guide will give students skills and confidence to learn Scrum rapidly and successfully. Long-time Scrum practitioner Mitch Lacey identifies major challenges associated with early-stage Scrum adoption, as well as deeper issues that emerge after companies have adopted Scrum, and describes how other organizations have overcome them. Students will learn how to gain "quick wins" that build support, and then use the flexibility of Scrum to maximize value creation across the entire process.

Chapter 1: Scrum: Simple, Not Easy
Part I: Getting Prepared
Chapter 2: Getting People on Board
Chapter 3: Using Team Consultants to Optimize Team Performance
Chapter 4: Predicting Team Velocity
Chapter 5: Implementing the Scrum Roles
Chapter 6: Determining Sprint Length
Chapter 7: How Do You Know You're Done?
Chapter 8: The Case for a Full-Time ScrumMaster
Part II: Field Basics
Chapter 9: Why Engineering Practices Are Important in Scrum
Chapter 10: Core Hours
Chapter 11: Release Planning
Chapter 12: Decomposing Stories and Tasks
Chapter 13: Keeping Defects in Check
Chapter 14: Sustained Engineering and Scrum
Chapter 15: The Sprint Review
Chapter 16: Retrospectives
Part III: First Aid
Chapter 17: Facilitating a Productive Daily Scrum
Chapter 18: The Fourth Question in Scrum
Chapter 19: Keeping People Engaged with Pair Programming
Chapter 20: Adding New Team Members
Chapter 21: When Cultures Collide
Chapter 22: Sprint Emergency Procedures
Part IV: Advanced Survival Techniques
Chapter 23: Sustainable Pace
Chapter 24: Delivering Working Software
Chapter 25: Optimizing and Measuring Value
Chapter 26: Up-Front Project Costing
Chapter 27: Documentation in Scrum Projects
Chapter 28: Outsourcing and Offshoring
Chapter 29: Prioritizing and Estimating Large BacklogsThe Big Wall
Chapter 30: Writing Contracts
Part V: Wilderness Essentials
Chapter 31: Driving to Done through Collaboration
Chapter 32: How Story Points Relate to Hours
Chapter 33: Immersive Interviewing and Hiring
Chapter 34: Aligning Incentives with Outcomes
Chapter 35: Risk Management in Scrum
Appendix: Scrum Framework
Index