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Scaling Lean & Agile Development

Thinking and Organizational Tools for Large-Scale Scrum

Craig LarmanBas Vodde

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SOFTWARE ENGINEERING/AGILE

Craig Larman Bas Vodde

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Scrum Shortcuts without Cutting CornersAgile Tactics, Tools, & Tips

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Practical, Step-by-Step Scrum Techniques for Improving Processes, Actions, and Outcomes

T he widespread adoption and success of Scrum can be attributed in large part

to its perceived intuitiveness and simplicity. But when new Scrum practitioners

attempt to apply Scrum theory and high-level approaches in actual projects, they often

find it surprisingly difficult. In Scrum Shortcuts without Cutting Corners, Scrum expert

Ilan Goldstein helps you translate the Scrum framework into reality to meet the Scrum

challenges your formal training never warned you about.

Drawing on his extensive agile experience in a wide range of projects and environments,

Goldstein presents thirty proven, flexible shortcuts for optimizing Scrum processes,

actions, and outcomes. Each shortcut walks you through applying a Scrum approach

to achieve a tangible output. These easy-to-digest, actionable patterns address a broad

range of topics including getting started, quality and metrics, team members and roles,

managing stakeholders, estimation, continuous improvement and much more.

Whatever your role, Scrum Shortcuts without Cutting Corners will help you take your

Scrum skills to the next level and achieve better results in any project you participate in.

Ilan Goldstein is a globally recognized Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) with extensive

experience working with start-ups, market leaders, government agencies, and public

companies, helping them to improve their agility through the implementation of Scrum.

He is a regular conference speaker, guest university lecturer, and founder of both

AxisAgile—a leading provider of agile training and consulting services—and Scrum

Australia—a national not-for-profit organization focused on growing and enriching the

Scrum community.

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team: sketch a system model, bearing in mind this scenario:

> 1 product, many teams, each team has a Team “Product Backlog” prioritized by a Team “Product Owner”

> start with these variables verbatim

1. # “product” backlogs (e.g. 1 backlog per team, 1 backlog for 2 teams, 1 backlog for all teams)

2. % of total (product) items a team knows well (requirements & design)

3. agility of teams to change direction at the company level

4. % of items worked on each Sprint that are highest value from a company view

5. likelihood that a single team will see they may be working on low-value items, from a company view

6.local team identity12

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