Scrum and Xp from the Trenches, 2nd Edition
- Length: 184 pages
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
- Publisher: lulu.com
- Publication Date: 2015-06-29
- ISBN-10: 1329224272
- ISBN-13: 9781329224278
- Sales Rank: #931112 (See Top 100 Books)
This book aims to give you a head start by providing a detailed down-to-earth account of how one Swedish company implemented Scrum and Xp with a team of approximately 40 people and how they continuously improved their process over a year’s time. Under the leadership of Henrik Kniberg they experimented with different team sizes, different sprint lengths, different ways of defining “done”, different formats for product backlogs and sprint backlogs, different testing strategies, different ways of doing demos, different ways of synchronizing multiple Scrum teams, etc. They also experimented with Xp practices – different ways of doing continuous build, pair programming, test driven development, etc, and how to combine this with Scrum. This second edition is an annotated version, a “director’s cut” where Henrik reflects upon the content and shares new insights gained since the first version of the book.
Table of Contents
- Intro
- How we do product backlogs
- How we prepare for sprint planning
- How we do sprint planning
- How we communicate sprints
- How we do sprint backlogs
- How we arrange the team room
- How we do daily scrums
- How we do sprint demos
- How we do sprint retrospectives
- Slack time between sprints
- How we do release planning and fixed-price contracts
- How we combine Scrum with XP
- How we do testing
- How we handle multiple Scrum teams
- How we handle geographically distributed teams
- Scrum-master checklist
- Parting words
