Saturday, October 9, 2010

BOOK - How we do Scrum

Henrik Kniberg describes in Scrum and XP from the Trenches how they do Scrum. This - free to download - book is interesting for everyone who wants to learn about how to do Scrum pragmatic in practise and to avoid pitfalls.

He describes how they do
  • Product backlogs (including user and tech stories)
  • Sprint planning (using planning poker :)
  • Communicate sprints
  • Sprint backlogs (taskboard, burndown chart,...)
  • Daily Scrums
  • Sprint demos
  • Sprint retrospectives
  • ...

and gives tips and tricks about
  • Slack time between sprints
  • Organising - distributed - teams
  • Estimated velocity
  • Fixed prices and release planning
  • eXtreme Programming practises
  • Testing and quality
  • ...
  • and other suggested reading