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