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The Illustrated Guide to Scrum - Volume 2

Make Scrum Work for You

Peter Stevens

Whether you're dealing with the everyday challenges of Scrum or aiming to elevate your team's performance, Scrum in Real Life provides the tools, tips, and techniques to make Scrum work for you. Elevate your Scrum practice and deliver better results with this indispensable guide!

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Dive into the practical side of Scrum with Scrum in Real Life, the second volume in our infographic series dedicated to helping you apply Scrum methodologies in real-world situations:

  • Implement proven strategies to enhance team performance, reduce waste, and improve focus.
  • Discover innovative ways to improve your estimates, split stories, avoid common pitfalls, and maintain a healthy and actionable backlog

This volume is crafted for Scrum practitioners who are ready to take their theoretical knowledge and turn it into effective, actionable practices This guide is your roadmap to mastering Scrum in any environment.

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  • Adapting Scrum in the Real-World
  • Evolution of the Project Manager or Product Owner
  • Effective Sprint Planning and Retrospectives
  • Mastering ‘Ready’ and ‘Done’
  • Boosting Team Performance
  • Making Better Estimates through Backlog Refinement

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Peter Stevens

Peter B. Stevens is an Executive, Coach, Author, and Certified Scrum Trainer. He is best known as the creator of the Personal Agility System, the simple, scalable approach to effective leadership. Collaborating with Joe Justice, he documented and defined the principles of Extreme Manufacturing, the technical foundation of Scrum for Hardware. 

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Table of Contents

Adapting Scrum in the Real-World

  • Applying Scrum In Real Life - 5
  • Is it okay to change Scrum? - 6
  • Clarity of purpose enables self-organization - 7

Evolution of the Roles

  • Product Owner and Scrum Master - 8
  • What would a Project Manager contribute? - 10

Effective Sprint Planning and Retrospectives

  • Sprint Planning in three easy steps - 11
  • Nine ways to hold a Sprint Retrospective - 12

Mastering ‘Ready’ and ‘Done’

  • READY checklist for Backlog Items - 14
  • Levels of Done explained - 15
  • Align your Done with their ready - 16

Boosting Team Performance

  • Visualize the Sprint - 17
  • Account for Sprint events - 18
  • Account for other activities - 19
  • Eliminate / minimize wasteful activities - 20
  • Focus as a Team - 21

Better Estimates through Backlog Refinement

  • Refine epics to features - 24
  • Refine features into grains of sand - 25
  • Large features become many grains - 26
  • Alternative: guess the number of grains - 27
  • Validate your estimates - 28
  • Eight ways to split a story - 29
  • Eight traps to avoid - 30

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