The Agile Pocket Guide

The Agile Pocket Guide: A Quick Start to Making Your Business Agile Using Scrum and Beyond
The Agile Pocket Guide explains how to develop products, services, and software quickly and efficiently, without losing the main components of the framework so effective in streamlining the creating of these products and for making positive change within a company. It includes

• The basic tennets of the Scrum framework
• How to apply the processes and steps required to become agile
• The dynamics of a successful agile environment
• The very basics of Scrum and how to employ them quickly
• Practical questions to ask the Team Leader as well as the Team
• How to build an environment of communication and collaboration for the entire organization

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Servant Leadership
Chapter 2: What the Business Wants from You—Managing Requirements
Chapter 3: Your Agile Team
Chapter 4: The High-Performance Team
Chapter 5: Everyone around the Campfire
Chapter 6: Daily Stand-Up, or Daily Scrum
Chapter 7: Introducing the Product Owner, or Value Driver
Chapter 8: Discoveries from the Product Backlog
Chapter 9: The Sprint Backlog and Release Planning
Chapter 10: Sprint Planning Meeting
Chapter 11: User Stories and Estimation
Chapter 12: Timeboxed Sprints (Iterations) and the Meaning of Done
Chapter 13: Tracking Flow and Information Radiators
Chapter 14: Demonstration of the Product
Chapter 15: The Retrospective
Chapter 16: Wash, Rinse, Repeat, Win!
Chapter 17: Team and Business Cultural Dynamics—Team Science?
Chapter 18: Scrum of Scrums
Chapter 19: Thirty-Second Scrum Elevator Pitch
chapter 20: Understanding Requirements
Chapter 21: Paired Programming—Team Kaizen
Chapter 22: Measuring a Working Product
Chapter 23: Technical Debt Is a Progress Killer!
Chapter 24: Oh Kanban!
Chapter 25: Personal Kaizen—More on Servant Leadership
Chapter 26: Team Kaizen—Practicing Agile
Chapter 27: Product Kaizen—The Value Driver for Your Product
Chapter 28: Cultural Kaizen—Leadership in Dynamic Team Cultures
Chapter 29: Conclusion