Table of Contents

Why Scrum?
Team!
Agile Product/Process Development
Eliminate Waste and Save Money
Product Requirements
Improved Control/Assurance
Schedule Maintenance
Budget Maintenance
Managing Changing User Requirements
Are All Projects Candidates for Scrum?

Scrum Basics
Overview of Scrum
Requirements
Product Backlog
Planning and Estimation
Release Backlog
Sprint
Sprint Retrospective
Iterative Product Delivery
Burndown Chart and Scope Changes
Meetings
Project Human Resources

Scrum and Conventional Project Management
What Is the White Book?
Project Backlog–Scope
Project Burndown Chart
Relation of Backlog to Work Breakdown Structure
Task Decomposition to "Atomic" Level
Sprint
Effect of Scrum on (Velocity) Tempo
Command and Control
Quality
Use of Existing Project Management Tools
Risk Management
Meetings

Complex Program Management
Scrum of Scrums
Budget

Scrum and Line Management
Line Management Tasks versus Project Tasks
Individual and Team Performance
Throughput
Movement toward Self-Directed Work Teams
Use of Product Backlog
Use of Sprint Retrospective

Scrum and the Waterfall Method
The Waterfall Method
Managing Conflicts
Managing Risks
System Development with Scrum and Waterfall Combined

Scrum and Education
Do Scrum and Education Systems Fit?
What Scrum Can Do for the Educational System
Deployment of Scrum in a School
Deployment of Scrum in Administrative Offices
Using Scrum with Educational Support Groups

Scrum and Six Sigma
Six Sigma Roles
Typical Six Sigma Deployment
Six Sigma Deployment with Scrum
Six Sigma Phases

Scrum and Systems Engineering Defense-Style
Systems Engineering Planning Implementation
Systems Engineering Input and Technical Objectives
Systems Engineering Process Requirements
Systems Engineering Output
Systems Engineering Planning
Functional Tasks
Leveraged Options
Pervasive Development Considerations
System/Cost Effectiveness
Military Reviews

Scrum and Service Industry
The Service
Products of the Service Industry
Defining Processes in the Service Industry
Deploying Scrum in the Service Industry
Benefits of Scrum in the Service Industry
Examples of Scrum in the Service Industry

Scrum and Hospitals
Levels
Types of Projects Amenable to Scrum
Where Scrum Is Not Appropriate

Outsourced Scrum
Distributed Teams
Tools for Distributed Teams
Drawbacks to
Upsides to Outsourced Scrum
Outsourcing—The Future

The New Age
Improvisation
Emergent Phenomena
Creative Problem-Solving

Summary

Originally created for agile software development, scrum provides project managers with the flexibility needed to meet ever-changing consumer demands. Presenting a modified version of the agile software development framework, Scrum Project Management introduces Scrum basics and explains how to apply this adaptive technique to effectively manage a wide range of programs and complex projects.

The book provides proven planning methods for controlling project scope and ensuring your project stays on schedule. It includes scrum tracking methods to help your team maintain a focus on improving throughput and streamlining communications. It also demonstrates how to:

Combine traditional project management methods with scrum
Adapt the familiar work breakdown structure to create scrum backlogs and sprints
Use a scrum of scrums to manage programs
Apply earned value management, critical path, and PERT in the context of scrum

Having successfully deployed and implemented scrum across multiple companies and departments, the authors provide valuable insight into how they achieved their past successes and how they overcame the trials involved with the deployment of a scrum environment. Throughout the text they discuss improvisation, creative problem solving, and emergent phenomena—detailing the methods needed to ensure your team achieves project success.