Mastering Professional Scrum A Practitioners Guide to Overcoming Challenges and Maximizing the Benefits of Agility

“Our job as Scrum professionals is to continually improve our ability to use Scrum to deliver products and services that help customers achieve valuable outcomes. This book will help you to improve your ability to apply Scrum.”
—From the Foreword by Ken Schwaber, co-author of Scrum

• Realistically assess your current Scrum practice, and identify areas for improvement
• Recognize what a great Scrum Team looks like and get there
• Focus on “Done”—not “sort-of-Done” or “almost-Done”
• Measure and optimize the value delivered by every Product Increment
• Improve the way you plan, develop, and grow
• Clear away wider organizational impediments to agility and professionalism
• Overcome common misconceptions that stand in the way of progress

Stephanie Ockerman has more than a decade of experience in both traditional waterfall and agile delivery approaches and has worked with implementations in leading large-scale technology programs, acting as a Scrum Master, and coaching Scrum Teams and organizations. She is also a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) through PMI and a Co-Active Coach trained by the Coach Training Institute. Stephanie is an active blogger and frequently speaks at agile and leadership conferences around the world.

Simon Reindl is an experienced developer, trainer, coach, and technologist. He has more than 20 years’ experience helping organizations in the private and public sectors and all industries adopt new technology and improve the value delivered. He is qualified to lead the full range of Professional Scrum Training courses (PSF, PSD .NET, PSM, PSPO and SPS) as well as coach people at all levels—whether in technical or managerial roles. Simon is a qualified teacher and Certified Agile Coach. He is also an active blogger and speaker at agile and technical conferences around the world.

1. Introduction
2. The Scrum Framework, Actually
3. Self-Organizing Cross-Functional Teams
4. Professionalism and Unprofessionalism
5. Enabling Scrum in the Organization
6. Mastering Scrum with Servant Leadership
7. A Scrum Decision-Making Cheat Sheet
8. Glossary
9. References and recommended reading
   

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