Agile Project Management with Scrum
Ken Schwaber, a 30-year veteran of the software development industry, is a pioneer of the agile process revolution and one of the creators of the Scrum process. In 2001, he signed the Agile Manifesto and later created the Agile Alliance and the Scrum Alliance. Ken is the author of Agile Project Management with Scrum and the coauthor of Agile Software Development with Scrum. He has trained over 47,000 certified ScrumMasters.
Scrum—a simple process for managing complicated projects—has few principles and practices that are simple to understand. However, Scrum's simplicity—its lack of prescription—can be disconcerting, and novice practitioners frequently find themselves resorting to old project management habits and methods, generating worse results. Scrum co-creator and advocate Ken Schwaber identifies the real-world lessons—the successes and failures—culled from his years of coaching firms in agile project management in this informative set of case studies. They will teach you how to use Scrum to tackle complicated challenges and produce better results—delivering more value software faster.
Learn the theory and practice of Scrum so that you can:
- Even the most complex and difficult projects can be managed.
- Manage uncertain or changing product requirements effectively.
- With self-managing development teams, you may simplify the chain of command.
- Customers should provide clearer specs as well as feedback.
- Reduce project planning time and tool requirements significantly.
- Build and release products in 30-day cycles so that clients receive deliverables sooner.
- Avoid mistakes by checking, reporting on, and fine-tuning projects on a frequent basis.
- Support several teams from various geographical areas working on a large-scale project.
- Increase your return on investment!
Author: Ken Schwaber
Link to buy: https://www.amazon.com/Agile-Project-Management-Developer-Practices-ebook/dp/B00JDMPOZW/
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