A Lightning Introduction to Scrum

By Mohammed Musthafa Soukath Ali

This lightweight and engaging book is suitable to quickly understand essence of Scrum which is the most preferred new way of working under Agile. Many marketplace books explain a muddied version of Scrum associating it with activities and artifacts that are not part of the Scrum framework. This book articulates the original Scrum as defined in its authentic source, “The Scrum Guide.”

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mohammed Musthafa Soukath Ali
• Release date: Jun 19, 2016
• ISBN: 9781310461132

Mohammed Musthafa Soukath Ali

Mohammed Musthafa Soukath AliSCJP, LOMA 286, PMP, PSM, PSPO, SA, SPCMusthafa is the author of the #1 Best Selling book ‘Scrum Narrative and PSMTM Exam Guide’ on Amazon and smashwords.com. He is the architect behind the prestigious TCS Agile Ninja Coach program and has trained over 500 Agile Coaches. He is the co-inventor of the TCS Location Independent AgileTM method and the TCS AgilityDebtTM framework. He is also the external Management Capability Adviser for some of the Tata Group Companies. He is a designated Agile Software Delivery Expert, having consulted with 15+ global customers. He published 9 papers in conferences with two international speaker invitations in Berlin and Spain. He is currently leading one of the largest Agile transformations in corporate history. He works out of Chennai, India.You can connect with the author through his LinkedIn network: https://in.linkedin.com/in/mohammed-musthafa-soukath-ali-9a857762

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Also by Mohammed Musthafa Soukath Ali, available at leading online retailers:

1. Scrum Narrative and PSM Exam Guide

2. The Professional Scrum Product Owner: Guide to Pass PSPO 1 Certification

3. A Pocket Guide to Passing Professional Scrum Master (PSM 1)

4. Get SAFe Now : A Lightning Introduction to the Most Popular Scaling Framework on Agile

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A Lightning Introduction to Scrum

Copyright 2016 Mohammed Musthafa Soukath Ali

All rights reserved

The Scrum Guide ©2016 Scrum.Org and ScrumInc is offered for license under the Attribution Share-Alike license of Creative Commons, accessible at ‘http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode’ and also described in summary form at ‘http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/’. While this book reproduces the content from The Scrum Guide, it does not adapt the original content.

The information contained in this book is provided without any express, statutory, or implied warranties.

Rev. 1.0

2016 Edition

Editor

Samantha Mason

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Table of Contents

1. Chapter 1 - A new approach for complex problems

2. Chapter 2 – Vehicle of Scrum - An Absolute and less complex team

3. Chapter 3 – Scrum - A container and collaboration framework

4. Summary

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Chapter 1 - A new approach for complex problems

How a Product is built using the traditional way – Waterfall

Organizations create strategies for business purposes. Some of these strategies aim at building product capabilities. For example, a software product building strategy may include a Customer Relationship Management System, Billing and Payments, Mobile Channel, New Product Introduction, etc.

Many organizations use a process methodology called waterfall in their projects to build products. Two types of people are needed to define the business and development aspects of project plans.

The business people: They define what the product should do. To define the product needs, they make long-term predictions about the future. Some examples of predictions include what the value of the product will be, how it will be received in the market, and more importantly what that market will be when the product is actually released. Predictions are based on many

Reviews for A Lightning Introduction to Scrum

[Chiranjeevi Chaluvaiah · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Simple and easy to understand. The pictures in book makes things easy to memorise.

[Abdulsamad Alawi Abdalla · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Very Short but detailed Scrum You get here, and it is understable