Top Scrum books recommended by experts

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Fundamentals of Scrum

Understanding the concepts of Scrum starts with understanding the fundamentals. On your way to mastery, it's crucial for you to understand how certain concepts were derived, and why things work like they do. Starting with these resources is the best way to do so.

Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great

See how to mine the experience of your software development team continually throughout the life of the project. The tools and recipes in this book will help you uncover and solve hidden (and not-so-hidden) problems with your technology, your methodology, and those difficult "people" issues on your team. Project retrospectives help teams examine what went right and what went wrong on a project…

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Essential Scrum: A Practical Guide to the Most Popular Agile Process (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Cohn))

The Single-Source, Comprehensive Guide to Scrum for All Team Members, Managers, and Executives
If you want to use Scrum to develop innovative products and services that delight your customers, Essential Scrum is the complete, single-source reference you’ve been searching for. Leading Scrum coach and trainer Kenny Rubin illuminates the values, principles, and practices of Scrum, and describe…

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The illustrated Scrum Guide

In this book, I have taken the content from the Scrum Guide 2020, the official text that defines Scrum, and enriched it with visuals, analogies, and explanations. Each accountability, event, and artifact of Scrum is presented with images that will help you better understand and retain the information. I propose many additional notes and visuals. They come from real-world experiences with clien…

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Essential Scrum: A Practical Guide to the Most Popular Agile Process

Whether you are new to Scrum or years into your use, this book will introduce, clarify, and deepen your Scrum knowledge at the team, product, and portfolio levels. Drawing from Rubin’s experience helping hundreds of organizations succeed with Scrum, this book provides easy-to-digest descriptions enhanced by more than two hundred illustrations based on an entirely new visual icon language for d…

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Agile Software Development with Scrum

eXtreme Programming is an ideal many software shops would love to reach, but with the constant pressures to produce software quickly, they cannot actually implement it. The Agile software process allows a company to implement eXtreme Programming quickly and immediately-and to begin producing software incrementally in as little as 30 days! Implementing eXtreme Programming is easier said than do…

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The Scrum Field Guide: Practical Advice for Your First Year

Thousands of IT professionals are being asked to make Scrum succeed in their organizations–including many who weren’t involved in the decision to adopt it. If you’re one of them, The Scrum Field Guide will give you skills and confidence to adopt Scrum more rapidly, more successfully, and with far less pain and fear

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Additional Scrum Reading

These books are not required for you to learn Scrum, but they are highly recommended for you to deepen your knowledge.

Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time

In the future, historians may look back on human progress and draw a sharp line designating “before Scrum” and “after Scrum.” Scrum is that ground-breaking. It already drives most of the world’s top technology companies. And now it’s starting to spread to every domain where leaders wrestle with complex projects.

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Specializations and Deeper Scrum Knowledge

You've got your basics in order – time to move on to some advanced and specialized concepts. Scrum is evolving every day, these books can help you master it.

The Scrum Master Files: Secrets Every Coach Should Know

An adequate Scrum Master may introduce Sprints and Events. But only a truly great Scrum Master understands that Scrum Mastery has nothing to do with being this kind of a crutch for people. Scrum Masters are coaches who understand how to help people help themselves to achieve their goals and objectives.

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Scrum Cheat Sheets: A Practitioner’s Guide to Mastering Scrum

Scrum Cheat Sheets are your guide to the most in-use Agile Framework. These encompassing cheat sheets efficiently illustrate and explain Scrum values, principles, artifacts, roles, events, and best practices.
Whether you’re new to Scrum or years into its use, this guide is your go-to when it comes to deepening your understanding and mastering the practical use of Scrum as well as preparing …

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Agile Scrum Crash Course: A Guide To Agile Project Management and Scrum Master Certification PSM 1

Agile Scrum Crash Course is a quick and complete guide on all you need to know to learn the essentials of Agile Project Management and Scrum. It will also help you prepare for the Professional Scrum Master Certification, PSM 1 and pass on your first attempt.
Written in simple language with easy to understand examples, this book is specially designed for beginners. No matter what your indust…

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