A Scrum Book: The Spirit of the Game 1st Edition

Gain insights and depth of rationale into Scrum from many highly respected world authorities, including one of its founders, who lead you through the deep foundations of Scrum's structure and practice. Enhance and customize your Scrum practice with ninety-four organizational building blocks, called patterns, that you can freely and flexibly choose from to fit your needs. Understand and appreciate the history of Scrum and the role it plays in solving common problems in product development.

Building a successful product usually involves teams of people, and many choose the Scrum approach to aid in creating products that deliver the highest possible value. Implementing Scrum gives teams a collection of powerful ideas they can assemble to fit their needs and meet their goals. The ninety-four patterns contained within are elaborated nuggets of insight into Scrum's building blocks, how they work, and how to use them. They offer novices a roadmap for starting from scratch, yet they help intermediate practitioners fine-tune or fortify their Scrum implementations. Experienced practitioners can use the patterns and supporting explanations to get a better understanding of how the parts of Scrum complement each other to solve common problems in product development.

The patterns are written in the well-known Alexandrian form, whose roots in architecture and design have enjoyed broad application in the software world. The form organizes each pattern so you can navigate directly to organizational design tradeoffs or jump to the solution or rationale that makes the solution work. The patterns flow together naturally through the context sections at their beginning and end.

Learn everything you need to know to master and implement Scrum one step at a time - the agile way.

About the Author

Jeff Sutherland is the co-creator of Scrum. Author of Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time.

James O. Coplien was a co-founder of the Hillside Group and co-author of Organizational Patterns, and several other titles.

Lachlan Heasman is a Professional Scrum Trainer, widely heralded Scrum coach in Australia.

Mark den Hollander is R&D Manager Software at Thermo Fisher Scientific.

Cesario Ramos was an early Scrum trainer, author of Emergent: Lean Agile Adoption for an Innovative Workplace, and Founder of AgiliX.

Esther Vervloed is a Teacher and Graphics artist, Bachelor of Education.

Neil Harrison is Chair of the CS Department at Utah State Valley College, co-author of "Organizational Patterns of Agile Software Development."

Kiro Harada is the founder and CEO, Attractor, Ltd.

Joseph (Joe) Yoder is the founder and principal of The Refactory and the president of The Hillside Group.

June Kim is a Mobile Engineer at Firework.

Alan O'Callaghan is a Certified Scrum Trainer and leader in agile and object-oriented programming.

Mike Beedle is the late Founder and CEO of Enterprise Scrum. Co-author of the first Scrum book, Agile Software Development with Scrum.

Gertrud Bjornvig is Founder and Owner of Gertrud & Cope, co-author of Lean Architecture.

Dina Friis is Agile Coach, Difri, Ltd. MSc in Computer Science.

Ville Reijonen is Agile Coach at Vincit, co-author of Designing Distributed Control Systems: A Pattern Language Approach.

Gabrielle Benefield is the Founder of Evolve Beyond. One of the earliest Scrum trainers.

Jens Ostergaard First Certified Scrum Practitioner and an early Scrum Trainer. CEO of ScrumTrainingInstitute LLC.

Veli-Pekka Eloranta is Agile Coach at Vincit, co-author of Designing Distributed Control Systems: A Pattern Language Approach.

Evan Leonard is Senior Program Manager at Google.

Ademar Aguiar is the Founder of Agile Portugal Conferences, Professor, University of Porto, and Board Member, Hillside Group.