The Agile Team Handbook, 2nd Edition: Putting Scrum To Work For Your Team

Completely revised and expanded, The Agile Team Handbook, Second Edition, will help guide you, your Team, and your organization on your Agile journey using Scrum. Scrum is intentionally disruptive. It is socially disruptive and organizationally disruptive with a purpose – to help your team and your organization build the best possible products as effectively as possible. Working within the disruptive framework that is Scrum is both challenging and highly rewarding. This handbook provides a solid foundation for you and your team to overcome the challenges and reap the rewards.

Jan Beaver is a Certified Scrum Trainer(R) who has worked with hundreds of teams across dozens of organizations to build effective, powerful Agile Teams. With a background in both education and software technology spanning more than 30 years, Jan brings a wealth of experience and empathy to the team experience. Jan holds a PhD in history, which provides an ability to see the whole and make connections across abstract concepts, in other words systems thinking. Understanding complex interactions within and between systems is the focus of much of his work. His current area of interest is the social interactions that occur within complex adaptive systems -- like Scrum Teams -- and how to enable true self-organization to achieve innovative solutions to the problems inherent in new product development.