Software in 30 Days

software is called "Scrum." Yes, this is the rugby event that keeps the ball moving down the field. We'll discuss Scrum, how it works, and why it works in this chapter. 6 Scrum at the Project Level 63 Most persistent improvement in software development starts at the project level. You can use Scrum to further prove its utility, or on critically important initiative that must succeed. We'll explore what you can tell your developers to do after reading this chapter. 7 Develop a Scrum Capability 75 Success often breeds success. As more software initiatives using Scrum succeed, more people will want to get on the wagon. Rather than changing the entire organization, let's look at how we can set up a software development universe separate from the disappointing, existing department. You can increasingly reap benefits here on an increasing number of projects and releases. 8 Scrum at the Enterprise Level 101 Scrum at a project or release level provides initiative level agility, the ability to rapidly respond to opportunities or rise to challenges. To gain the most significant benefits, Scrum's empirical approach to software development must be fit into the organization as a whole. We'll look at how to do this, and why some approaches are short-lived and others persist. 9 Enterprise Transformation: Profound and Persistent Change 107 You want to make your organization leaner, more efficient, and agile on your watch. Even more, you want these benefits and their underlying causes to persist and become the organizational culture. We'll look at an enterprise change approach for achieving this in this chapter. 10 Scrumming Scrum 119 We devised Scrum for complex problem solving, like software development. We found Scrum a useful technique for managing organizational change, also a complex problem. The same benefits of transparency, waste removal, risk control, and predictability occurred. We'll look at this use of Scrum in this chapter. Appendix 1: Terminology 127 We slowly and progressively introduced some new terminology. This appendix is your reference for those terms. Appendix 2: The Scrum Guide 133 Read the canonical guide to Scrum, its roles, artifacts, and events. This is the bible of Scrum. Appendix 3: A Playbook for Achieving Enterprise Agility 153 This appendix presents a more detailed plan for enterprise change, as discussed in Chapter 10. Index 185