The Enterprise and Scrum

It's time to extend the benefits of Scrum-greater agility, higher-quality products, and lower costs-from individual teams to your entire enterprise. However, with Scrum's lack of prescribed rules, the friction of change can be challenging as people struggle to break from old project management habits. In this book, agile-process revolution leader Ken Schwaber takes you through change management-for your organizational and interpersonal processes-explaining how to successfully adopt Scrum across your entire organization.

A cofounder of Scrum, Ken draws from decades of experience, answering your questions through case studies of proven practices and processes. With them, you'll learn how to adopt-and adapt-Scrum in the enterprise. And gain profound levels of transparency into your development processes.

Discover how to:

Evaluate the benefits of adopting Scrum in any size organization
Initiate an enterprise transition project
Implement a single, prioritized Product Backlog
Organize effective Scrum teams using a top-down approach
Adapt and apply solutions for integrating engineering practices across multiple teams
Shorten release times by managing high-value increments
Refine your Scrum practices and help reduce the length of Sprints