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The Professional ScrumMaster's Handbook

By : Stacia Viscardi
Book Image

The Professional ScrumMaster's Handbook

By: Stacia Viscardi

Overview of this book

A natural and difficult tension exists between a project team (supply) and its customer (demand); a professional ScrumMaster relaxes this tension using the Scrum framework so that the team arrives at the best possible outcome."The Professional ScrumMaster's Handbook" is a practical, no-nonsense guide to helping you become an inspiring and effective ScrumMaster known for getting results.This book goes into great detail about why it seems like you're fighting traditional management culture every step of the way. You will explore the three roles of Scrum and how, working in harmony, they can deliver a product in the leanest way possible. You'll understand that even though there is no room for a project manager in Scrum, there are certain “management” aspects you should be familiar with to help you along the way. Getting a team to manage itself and take responsibility is no easy feat; this book will show you how to earn trust by displaying it and inspiring courage in a team every day."The Professional ScrumMaster's Handbook" will challenge you to dig deep within yourself to improve your mindset, practices, and values in order to build and support the very best agile teams.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
The Professional ScrumMaster's Handbook
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgment
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Running the sprint planning meeting


Sprint planning has two parts: in the first part the product owner describes the stories he/she wants, why he/she wants them, and how they provide value or solve a problem. The product owner also answers clarifying questions from the team. During the second part of the sprint planning meeting, the development team members discuss the approach, tasks, ownership of tasks, and other tactics for meeting their commitments.

Part I – the What and the Why

Start with the end in mind. The goal of each sprint is for the team to deliver a potentially shippable product increment—features that work, features that the customer can put their hands on. The purpose of sprint planning is to figure out how to do that.

The product owner drives the first part of sprint planning by giving detail about the most important items from the product backlog. As the product owner reviews and explains the stories, the team asks questions to clarify the product owner's needs. You can further...