Successful Outsourcing with Scrum
While I am at work on my new book, tentatively titled Successful Outsourcing with Scrum, I will post drafts of completed chapters here for review. I welcome any feedback. Valuable contributions will be recognised on the book's website. The texts posted here are copyright 2009 Paul Kipp.
Table of Contents
- Chapter One: What is Scrum? first draft v0.10.
- What is Scrum?
- What is agile development?
- Why do we need a new method?
- How and why did I adopt Scrum?
- How have my clients reacted to Scrum?
- What have been the results of adopting Scrum?
- How hard is it to learn Scrum?
- What are the primary advantages of Scrum?
- How does Scrum distribute reponsibilities?
- How does Scrum work with offshore teams?
- Chapter Two: The Scrum Team - fist draft v0.07.
- What is a scrum team?
- What is a self-organizing team?
- What are Pigs and Chickens?
- How does a non-hierarchical team work?
- What does a ScrumMaster do?
- What about the others? Testers, programmers, UI specialists?
- What does the Product Owner do?
- Why should there be a single Product Owner?
- What are the responsibilities of the Product Owner?
- What is the time commitment of the product owner?
- How can I be a good product owner?
- Chapter Three: Communication - in progress
- Chapter Four: Quality Control - not yet available for download
- Chapter Five: Project Initiation - not yet available for download
- Chapter Six: Sprinting - not yet available for download
- Chapter Seven: Rinse and Repeat - not yet available for download
- Chapter Eight: Deployment - not yet available for download
- Glossary - not yet available for download
- Suggested Reading - not yet available for download
Successful Outsouring With Scrum
Please feel free to download chapters as I complete the first drafts and offer feedback to help me make this book as useful as it can be.