Author: Ken Schwaber
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Keywords: scrum, enterprise
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2007-06-13
List price: $39.99
ISBN-10: 0735623376
ISBN-13: 9780735623378

Get the practical guidance you need to apply Scrum enterprise wide--straight from a leader and innovator in the agile process movement. Agile development methods, such as Scrum, have been shown to produce improvements in speed, quality, and cost. However, the practices within Scrum, such as self-managing teams, are often so different from the norm at most enterprises and cause an organizational reaction. The productivity and quality benefits of Scrum pose a compelling reason to make such changes--moving it from the small team to the enterprise level. And as Scrum crosses to the

Authors:Kim H. Pries, Jon M. Quigley,
Publisher: CRC Press
Keywords: management, project, scrum
Number of Pages: 198
Published: 2010-08-17
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 1439825157
ISBN-13: 9781439825150

Originally created for agile software development, scrum provides project managers with the flexibility needed to meet ever-changing consumer demands. Presenting a modified version of the agile software development framework, Scrum Project Management introduces Scrum basics and explains how to apply this adaptive technique to effectively manage a wide range of programs and complex projects. The book provides proven planning methods for controlling project scope and ensuring your project stays on schedule. It includes scrum tracking methods to help your team maintain a focus on improving thr

Author: Mike Coh
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Keywords: using, scrum, development, software, agile, succeeding
Number of Pages: 504
Published: 2009-11-05
List price: $49.99
ISBN-10: 0321579364
ISBN-13: 9780321579362

Proven, 100% Practical Guidance for Making Scrum and Agile Work in Any Organization This is the definitive, realistic, actionable guide to starting fast with Scrum and agile–and then succeeding over the long haul. Leading agile consultant and practitioner Mike Cohn presents detailed recommendations, powerful tips, and real-world case studies drawn from his unparalleled experience helping hundreds of software organizations make Scrum and agile work. Succeeding with Agile is for pragmatic software professionals who want real answers to the most difficult challenges they face in impleme

Author: Darby Conley
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Keywords: collection, fuzzy, bums, scrum
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2006-09-19
List price: $10.95
ISBN-10: 0740750011
ISBN-13: 9780740750014

Bucky Katt is a rather obstinate Siamese who constantly battles his "owner" Rob for control of their home. Satchel Pooch, the Labrador-Shar-pei mix who’s sweet and lovable, makes a nice lackey for Bucky. Bucky knows he’s smarter than everyone else; it’s just a matter of convincing the rest of the world. Satchel always tries to do the right thing but very often ends up the brunt of Bucky’s antics. Rob Wilco is a bachelor trying to regain household domesticity. Together, this seemingly typical threesome gets into some less-than-typical but hilarious situations. There̵

Author: Ken Schwaber
Publisher: Microsoft Pre
Keywords: microsoft, professional, scrum, management, project, agile
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2004-02-11
List price: $39.99
ISBN-10: 073561993X
ISBN-13: 9780735619937

Apply the principles of Scrum, one of the most popular agile programming methods, to software project management?and focus your team on delivering real business value. Author Ken Schwaber, a leader in the agile process movement and a co-creator of Scrum, brings his vast expertise to helping you guide the product and software development process more effectively and efficiently. Help eliminate the ambiguity into which so many software projects are borne, where vision and planning documents are essentially thrown over the wall to developers. This high-level reference describes how to use Scrum t

Author: Allan Levine
Publisher: Dundurn Pre
Keywords: media, ministers, prime, wars, scrum
Number of Pages: 392
Published: 1996-08-08
List price: $26.50
ISBN-10: 1550021915
ISBN-13: 9781550021912

The image of the scrum -- a beleaguered politican surrounded by jockeying reporters -- is central to our perception of Ottawa. The modern scrum began with the arrival of television, but even in Sir John A. Macdonald’s day, a century earlier, reporters in the parliamentary press gallery had waited outside the prime minister’s office, pen in hand, hoping for a quote for the next edition. The scrum represents the test of wills, the contest of wits, and the battle for control that have characterized the relationship between Canadian prime ministers and journalists for more than 125 yea

Author: Allan Levine
Publisher: Dundurn Group (CA)
Keywords: media, ministers, prime, wars, scrum
Number of Pages: 389
Published: 1993-09
List price: $17.50
ISBN-10: 1550022075
ISBN-13: 9781550022070

Scrum Wars chronicles the fascinating and dramatic confrontations between the prime ministers of Canada and the men and women of the Canadian news media.