An Introduction to Scrum: Understanding and Applying the Software

By Ted Owens

The book starts off with a definition of scrum and then goes into the main concepts of the scrum framework. As it is described as being agile software, the author spends a bit of time explaining what exactly that is. The reader is then given even more detail about the software as a few components of scrum are focused upon like user stories and spri

• Language: English
• Publisher: Shaan White
• Release date: Apr 9, 2014
• ISBN: 9781632878915

Ted Owens

Ted Owens is an economist but had an interest in learning about software development programs. Scrum was something that he had been interested in since it was launched in 1986. From what he learned, he thought that others would also be interested in learning about the benefits of scrum. Ted started to compile a book on scrum with that in mind. He shows how scrum allows a group of persons to work on a project as a unit. He has used it himself with other team members and has found it to be quite effective.

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An Introduction to Scrum

Understanding and Applying the Software

By: Ted Owens

PUBLISHERS NOTES

Disclaimer

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WHAT YOU WILL LEARN IN THIS BOOK

How This Book Will Help You and Why

To put it in plainer language, scrum was designed as a way to turn a software development team into a single, cohesive, organic unit which was focused on creating a program to fulfill a client's needs. This book will help you to learn the basics of Scrum and is essential if you need to become certified as a Scrum master.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Publishers Notes

What You Will Learn In This Book

Dedication

Chapter 1- Scrum-The Basics

Chapter 2- The Scrum Framework

Chapter 3- Agile Principles- An Overview

Chapter 4- Sprints- What Are They And How Do They Work?

Chapter 5- User Stories and Requirements Scrum

Chapter 6- Dealing With Product Backlog In Scrum

Chapter 7- What Are The Various Roles Of Scrum Team Members?

About The Author

DEDICATION

If you need to learn Scrum or in fact any technology based system you need to start from the basics. Lots of techs wont tell you that before Geek there was Non-Geek. I was and still