Agile Project Management with Scrum (Microsoft Professional)
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pay, employee, 113 ‚ 114
people, complexity of, 5
PERT chart management, 37, 38
Pigs, 7
plain language, using, 63 ‚ 65
planning
conversions to Scrum, 68
funders, working with, 67 ‚ 68
meetings. See Daily Scrum meetings; planning meetings, Sprint
minimum necessary, 68
Product Backlog component of, 68
questions resolved by, 67
stakeholder expectations, setting, 67
team ‚ s role in, 8, 134
visions , 68
planning meetings, daily. See Daily Scrum meetings
planning meetings, Sprint
attendees, 133
defined, 141
duration of, 8
first four hours, 133
parts , 8
Product Owner role at, 133, 134
redirection opportunities in, 17
rules of, 133 ‚ 134
second four hours, 134
Teams, role at, 134
time-boxing , 134
planning software example, 29 ‚ 31
precision, 2
predictability vs. estimates, 111
prioritization, benefits of, 148
process overview, 7 ‚ 9
Product Backlogs
bidding process, using during, 148
bugs , adding to, 131
burndown charts , 11 ‚ 12
Burndown reports , 89 ‚ 91
choosing items for Sprints, 133
columns in, 11
combined for multiple customers, 127
components of, 68
defined, 8, 141
example of, 10
example of constructing, 19 ‚ 21
explaining simply, 64
field service, 127
Gantt reports from, 87 ‚ 88
infrastructure for scaling, 120 ‚ 121
items, defined, 141
listing requirements for, 49
multiple customer scaling solution, 126 ‚ 129
multiple-team development of, 45, 56
planning, role in, 68
prioritizing in meetings, 8, 133
Product Owners goal for, 18
purpose of, 10
requirements management role, 153
ROI from, 18
rows in, 11
sale of company example, 61
scaling for multiple customers, 126 ‚ 129
scaling, prioritizing for, 120 ‚ 121
shadow creation of, 58 ‚ 60
spreadsheet parts, 11
Sprints, frozen during, 136
tracking function of, 85
uncertainty, reducing with, 41
Product Owners
customers, rivalries between, 58 ‚ 60
Daily Scrum involvement, 62
defined, 6, 141
financial impacts, importance of, 81
MegaBank example, 63 ‚ 65
MegaFund XFlow example, 57 ‚ 60
plain language, using, 63 ‚ 65
planning meetings, role in, 133, 134
prioritization of business problems, 20
Product Backlog construction example, 19 ‚ 21
Product Backlogs, explaining, 64
quick results, importance of, 55
responsibilities of, 74
ROI focus of, 18, 20
sale of company example, 61
scaling example, 128
ScrumMasters, relationship to, 36, 53, 65
Service 1st example, 55 ‚ 57
shadow creation of Product Backlogs, 58 ‚ 60
Sprint review meetings, 56 ‚ 57
Teams, relation to, 65, 112
Teams, tendency to drift from, 53
TechCore example, 60 ‚ 63
value of, 20 ‚ 21
project managers, 16, 25, 28, 30-31, 35-36, 104. See also ScrumMasters
project reports. See reports
public relations example, 31
purchasing components example, 62
purpose of Scrum, 1