Scrum and Agile Methods: A Practical Guide

Meet Scrum, the most used agile framework for project management worldwide!This book is for those who work on projects and are dissatisfied with deadlines that are never met, with the low quality deliveries and with the team that never seems to be truly committed. It is for those who believe that it is possible to do "more and better" in projects, but do not know exactly how. It is for those who want to deliver value to their customers, developing more solutions and fewer meetings.Did you identify yourself? So this book is for you."There was a period in my career that I felt frustrated, because no project seemed to go as I'd like. The revenue of the company I worked for depended on a project that we didn't know when it would be delivered, it was full of flaws, delayed for years and the team no longer believed that it would be possible to deliver it. It was thought to start again from scratch, but in reality the feeling was of giving up. But we did it and Scrum was an important part of that process. The goal with this book is to share that to help other companies achieve the same." - the authorSpecially written for project managers and team leaders, or for anyone who one day seeks such positions, but essentially for all those who want to deliver results and generate value in the companies they work for.In this book you will learn in a practical way how ... - how Scrum changed my career and the company I worked for forever; - understand the Scrum framework once and for all; - apply agile methods in your company; - train your team in agile methodologies; - inspect and adapt your development processes; - tools and processes to guarantee the quality of deliveries; - write software requirements in an agile and clear manner; - estimate software in an unconventional but very effective way; - prioritize backlog in an ego-proof way (because everything is urgent!); - refine your backlog so that the team is always working on what generates the most value; - increase the quality of development and reduce software defects; - m