Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions

Shifting customer needs are common in today's marketplace. Businesses must be adaptive and responsive to change while delivering an exceptional customer experience to be competitive. There are a variety of frameworks supporting the development of products and services, and most approaches fall into one of two broad categories: traditional or agile. Traditional practices such as waterfall engage sequential development, while agile involves iterative and incremental deliverables. Organizations are increasingly embracing agile to manage projects, and best meet their business needs of rapid response to change, fast delivery speed, and more. With clear and easy to follow step-by-step instructions, helps you: - Implement and use the most popular agile framework―Scrum - Deliver products in short cycles with rapid adaptation to change, fast time-to-market, and continuous improvement - Support innovation and drive competitive advantage It's for those who have not yet used Scrum. It's also for people already using Scrum, in roles such as Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Development Team members (business analysts, solution and system architects, designers, developers, testers, etc.), customers, end users, agile coaches, executives, managers, and other stakeholders. For those already using Scrum, this guide can serve as a reference on practices for consideration and potential adaptation. "One of the best Scrum books of all time" ― BookAuthority "The book highlights the versatility of Scrum beautifully"― Literary Titan "A superbly written and presented guide to team-based project management that is applicable across a broad range of businesses from consumer products to high-tech"― IndieBRAG "The book is excellent" ― Readers' Favorite "An all-inclusive instruction guide that is impressively 'user-friendly' in tone, content, clarity, organization, and presentation"― Midwest Book Review "A must-have"― PM World Journal 5th Annual Beverly Hills Book Awards (Business-General) 5th Annual Beverly Hills Book Awards (Technology) 2016 London Book Festival (Business) Fall 2016 Pinnacle Book Achievement Awards (Business) 2017 Feathered Quill Book Awards (Informational - Business) 2016 New Apple Book Awards (Technology) 2017 Independent Press Award (Technology) 11th Annual National Indie Excellence Awards (Technology) 2017 Pacific Rim Book Festival (Business) 2017 Bookvana Awards (Green/Conscious Business) 2017 Book Excellence Awards (Technology) 14th Annual Best Book Awards (Business Reference) 2017 New York City Big Book Awards (Technology) 2017 Royal Dragonfly Book Awards (Science & Technology) 2017 Human Relations Indie Book Awards (Workplace) 2018 Florida Book Festival (Business) 2018 Pacific Book Awards (Business) Credit to Chris Hare and Colin Giffen, the technical editors on the book.