Mastering Advanced Scrum

This book emphasizes on the Advanced Scrum Add-ons/Techniques to be explored, applied, and utilized by the Scrum Teams to establish and improve a fully functional Scrum-based Agile Way of Working. Reading this book not only helps the Scrum Teams to encourage their overall responsibility, accountability, and ownership, but also guides them to become High-Performing Scrum Teams.

The book contains numerous real-time use-cases and visual illustrations for various concepts of Scrum Framework, Scrum-based Agile Way of Working, and Advanced Scrum Add-ons/Techniques. It also gives an overview of Scrum Malfunctioning and various ways to prevent and correct it.

After reading this book, the readers can look out for any malfunctions present within their Scrum Teams and apply the applicable Advanced Scrum Add-ons/Techniques to address such malfunctions. What you will learn
● Identify Scrum Malfunctions in Scrum Teams along with various preventive and corrective measures.
● Adopt Advanced Scrum Add-ons/Techniques and Best Practices for Scrum Roles, Scrum Artifacts, and Scrum Events.
● Learn to improvise the Structuring, Alignment, Collaboration, Communication, and Working Agreements of Scrum Teams.
● Utilize Advanced Engineering Practices to improve the Technical Agility of Scrum Teams. Who this book is for
This book is for Agile Enthusiasts, Agile Coaches, Scrum Practitioners, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and for the Agile Software Product Development Scrum Teams having a basic know-how of the Scrum Framework and who want to implement various Advanced Techniques/Best Practices of the Scrum Framework to boost their Organizational Agility. Table of Contents
1. Fundamentals of Agile Software Development, Delivery, and Way of Working
2. Agile Frameworks
3. Overview of the Scrum Framework
4. Scrum Malfunctioning and Understanding the need for Advanced Scrum Add-ons
5. Introduction to Advanced Scrum Add-ons
6. Add-ons for Structuring, Collaboration, and Communication within Scrum Teams
7. Add-ons for Scrum Roles and Working Agreement within Scrum Teams
8. Add-ons for Effective and Efficient Product Backlog Management
9. Add-ons for Effective and Efficient Relative Estimation
10. Add-ons for Scrum Events
11. Add-ons for Advanced Engineering Practices and Technical Agility
12. Add-ons for Effective and Efficient Scrum Metrics
13. Add-ons for Scaling Scrum
14. Additional Advanced Scrum Add-ons
15. A Quick Reflection on Scrum Guide 2020
About the Authors
Rituraj Patil is an experienced Scrum Master/Agile Coach, who for the past 10+ years has been working with various multinational organizations to develop and deliver high-quality working software products, services, and solution offerings. He is a technology, Lean-Agile (Leadership, Culture, and Management) enthusiast, servant leader, and avid learner.