Scrum, Step by Step for 2027

Run Scrum properly, from the three accountabilities through a full sprint of planning, daily work, review and retrospective, and keep it healthy over time.

Who it's for

Team leaders, managers, product people and anyone who has been asked to “start doing Scrum” and wants to do it properly. You do not need a software background. The book works alongside the Scrum Guide, the short official definition maintained by Scrum’s creators, Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland.

What you'll learn

• See the whole of Scrum on one page (pillars, values, accountabilities, events, artefacts and commitments) and find the gaps in how your team works
• Make clear who decides what between the Product Owner, Scrum Master and Developers, and where managers and clients fit
• Order the Product Backlog by value, risk, dependencies and cost of delay, drawing on Don Reinertsen’s work, and run a 60-minute refinement session
• Run Sprint Planning around why, what and how, with a capacity calculation and a Sprint Goal
• Keep the sprint on course with a 15-minute Daily Scrum, a visible board, a burndown and an impediment log
• Turn the Sprint Review into a working session and run retrospectives in Esther Derby and Diana Larsen’s five phases
• Measure whether Scrum is working, spot common anti-patterns and keep several teams on one product aligned

What's inside

• 44 pages, 7 chapters
• Each chapter gives you key concepts, a step-by-step method, an illustrative example from a fictional UK organisation, a ready-to-use tool, common mistakes, a recap of the key steps and a short exercise to try this week
• Most chapters follow one fictional team at a Manchester web agency, so you see a whole sprint unfold
• A tool in every chapter, including the Scrum gap check, accountability card, refinement session agenda, capacity calculator, impediment log, retrospective action plan and Scrum health check scorecard
• A plan for your first three sprints with checklists, plus a glossary
• PDF in A4 format — read on screen or print
• Instant download after purchase

Contents

1. Scrum on One Page
2. The Three Accountabilities
3. Ordering and Refining the Product Backlog
4. Sprint Planning That Sets a Real Goal
5. Running the Sprint Day to Day
6. Sprint Review and Retrospective
7. Keeping Scrum Healthy

Part of The Business Library

This title is one of the 55 ebooks in The Business Library, available together for £109 (worth £1,437 if bought separately: the total of the individual prices of the included titles in our store). It is also included in The Ultimate Business Bundle, which adds 8 checklists and toolkits and 10 workbooks — all 73 products for £147.