Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions - Softcover

Graffius, Scott M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1533370249 ISBN 13: 9781533370242

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

EXPANDED AND UPDATED

Deliver Products in Short Cycles with Rapid Adaptation to Change, Fast Time-to-Market, and Continuous Improvement―Which Supports Innovation and Drives Competitive Advantage

Shifting customer needs are common in today's marketplace. Businesses must be adaptive and responsive to change while delivering an exceptional customer experience to be competitive. There are a variety of frameworks supporting the development of products and services, and most approaches fall into one of two broad categories: traditional or agile. Traditional practices such as waterfall engage sequential development, while agile involves iterative and incremental deliverables. Organizations are increasingly embracing agile to manage projects, and best meet their business needs of rapid response to change, fast delivery speed, and more.

With clear and easy to follow step-by-step instructions, Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions helps you:
- Implement and use the most popular agile framework―Scrum
- Deliver products in short cycles with rapid adaptation to change, fast time-to-market, and continuous improvement
- Support innovation and drive competitive advantage

Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions is for those interested or involved in innovation, project management, product development, software development or technology management. It's for those who have not yet used Scrum. It's also for people already using Scrum, in roles such as Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Development Team members (business analysts, solution and system architects, designers, developers, testers, etc.), customers, end users, agile coaches, executives, managers, and other stakeholders. For those already using Scrum, this guide can serve as a reference on practices for consideration and potential adaptation.

Reactions to Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions have been fantastic:

"One of the best Scrum books of all time" ― BookAuthority

"The book highlights the versatility of Scrum beautifully"― Literary Titan

"A superbly written and presented guide to team-based project management that is applicable across a broad range of businesses from consumer products to high-tech"― IndieBRAG

"The book is excellent" ― Readers' Favorite

"An all-inclusive instruction guide that is impressively 'user-friendly' in tone, content, clarity, organization, and presentation"― Midwest Book Review

"A must-have"― PM World Journal

Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions has received 17 first place awards:

5th Annual Beverly Hills Book Awards (Business-General)

5th Annual Beverly Hills Book Awards (Technology)

2016 London Book Festival (Business)

Fall 2016 Pinnacle Book Achievement Awards (Business)

2017 Feathered Quill Book Awards (Informational - Business)

2016 New Apple Book Awards (Technology)

2017 Independent Press Award (Technology)

11th Annual National Indie Excellence Awards (Technology)

2017 Pacific Rim Book Festival (Business)

2017 Bookvana Awards (Green/Conscious Business)

2017 Book Excellence Awards (Technology)

14th Annual Best Book Awards (Business Reference)

2017 New York City Big Book Awards (Technology)

2017 Royal Dragonfly Book Awards (Science & Technology)

2017 Human Relations Indie Book Awards (Workplace)

2018 Florida Book Festival (Business)

2018 Pacific Book Awards (Business)

Credit to Chris Hare and Colin Giffen, the technical editors on the book.

Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions ― get your copy today!

About this title

From the Back Cover

Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions will show you how to easily and quickly employ Scrum, the most popular agile project development and delivery framework.

About the Author

Scott M. Graffius is a technology leader, project management expert, consultant, international speaker, and award-winning author. 
 
Scott is a Principal Consultant and the CEO of Exceptional PPM and PMO Solutions™, a professional services firm, where he helps clients strengthen their project management capabilities and realize their strategic objectives and business initiatives. The firm confidently backs its services with a Delighted Client Guarantee™. 
 
A fantastic agile transformation experience and result with a client organization in the entertainment industry was the inspiration for Scott's first book, Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions (ISBN-13: 9781533370242). The book garnered 17 first place awards. Scott and Agile Scrum have been featured in Yahoo Finance, Computer Weekly, Innovation Management, and additional media publications. His second title, Agile Transformation: A Brief Story of How an Entertainment Company Developed New Capabilities and Unlocked Business Agility to Thrive in an Era of Rapid Change (ASIN: B07R9LJLPJ), was published in April 2019.
 
Scott is a former vice president of project management with a publicly traded provider of diverse consumer products and services over the Internet. Before that, he ran and supervised the delivery of projects and programs in organizations with businesses ranging from e-commerce to advanced technology products and services, retail, manufacturing, entertainment, and more. 
 
Scott holds several professional certifications: Certified Scrum Professional (CSP), Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), Project Management Professional (PMP), Lean Six Sigma Green Belt (LSSGB), and more.

Scott regularly speaks at conferences and other events around the globe where he delights audiences with presentations on agile, traditional, and hybrid project, program, portfolio, and PMO management. 
 
Scott resides in Los Angeles, California.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1533370249
• ISBN 13: 9781533370242
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 156