Scrum offers minimal guidelines for Agile project management. In his book “The Scrum Field Guide”, Mitch Lacey provides Scrum practitioners with material that should help them improve their Scrum practices. The book is divided in four parts. The first part gives you advice on getting started with Scrum. The second part will help you overcome some of the initial stumbling blocks met by Agile teams and organizations. The third part of the book deals with some of the larger, deeper issues that companies face, like adding people to projects or fixing dysfunctional daily standup meetings. The final part of “The Scrum Field Guide” presents less discussed topics such as budgeting projects, writing contacts or writing documentation in Scrum projects. You can read this book from start to finish or pick a chapter about a specific issue that you want to solve. Each chapter of The Scrum Field Guide book starts with a story that put the topic in perspective. It is followed by a discussion on the conceptual aspects. At the end of the chapter, a “Keys to Success” part that summarizes the important content of the chapter and a reference section provides pointers to additional knowledge. I have particularly appreciated the chapters about the sprint length determination, doing new development and maintenance at the same time or the sprint emergency procedures. The book is easy to read and I will recommend this book to every Agile and Scrum practitioner and every non-Agile practitioner too ;O) Reference: “The Scrum Field [...]
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