Essential Scrum: A Practical Guide to the Most Popular Agile Process|A Practical Guide to the Most Popular Agile Process

The single source comprehensive guide to scrum for all team members managers and executives.If you want to use Scrum to develop innovative products and services that delight your customers Essential Scrumis the complete single-source reference you ve been searching for. Leading Scrum coach and trainer Kenny Rubin illuminates the values principles and practices of Scrum and describes flexible proven approaches that can help you implement it far more effectively.Whether you are new to Scrum or years into your use this book will introduce clarify and deepen your Scrum knowledge at the team product and portfolio levels. Drawing from Rubin s experience helping hundreds of organizations succeed with Scrum this book provides easy-to-digest descriptions enhanced by more than two hundred illustrations based on an entirely new visual icon language for describing Scrum s roles artifacts and activities.Essential Scrumwill provide every team member manager and executive with a common understanding of Scrum a shared vocabulary they can use in applying it and practical knowledge for deriving maximum value from it.Agile coaches you re gonna be happy with this book. Kenny Rubin has created an indispensable resource for us. Do you have a manager that just doesn t get it ? Hand them this book and ask them to flip to Chapter 3 for a complete explanation of how Scrum is less risky than plan-driven management. It s written just for them-in management-speak. Want to help the team come to a common understanding of Scrum? The visual icon language used throughout this book will help you help them. These are just two ways this book can aid you to coach Scrum teams. Use it well. - Lyssa Adkins Coach of Agile Coaches Agile Coaching Institute author Coaching Agile Teams.One of the best most comprehensive descriptions of the core Scrum framework out there Essential Scrum is for anyone-new to or experienced with Scrum-who s int