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Professional Scrum Development with Azure DevOps, 1st edition

Published by Microsoft Press (February 24, 2021) © 2021

  • Richard Hundhausen

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Master proven processes for improving development with Scrum and Azure DevOps

This guide can help any development team plan, track, and manage work far more effectively, by combining today's leading agile framework (Scrum) and Microsoft's ALM/DevOps toolset (Azure DevOps). Renowned Scrum expert Richard Hundhausen thoroughly covers team formation, backlogs, Sprints, test plans, collaboration, flow, continuous improvement, Azure Boards, Azure Test Plans, and the real-world tradeoffs associated with DevOps. Throughout, you'll find practical, in-the-trenches tips from experienced Professional Scrum Developers. To make this guide even more valuable, Hundhausen has organized it to complement Scrum.org's popular Professional Scrum Developer (PSD) program, which he created with Scrum.org's Ken Schwaber, author of this book's Foreword.

Professional Scrum Trainer Richard Hundhausen shows how to:
  •  Deepen your understanding of the Scrum framework and Professional Scrum as based on the 2020 Scrum Guide.
  • Provide proven work item planning and tracking, and quickly drive value from Azure Boards
  • Improve your Scrum “pre-game”: the tasks you'll perform before your first Sprint
  • Use Azure DevOps to create and manage backlogs, plan Sprints, and collaborate throughout them
  • Improve at scale with Scaled Professional Scrum and the Nexus scaled Scrum framework
  • Recognize which practices are still most efficiently performed without tools
  • Define and optimize team flow, overcome common dysfunctions, and evolve into a high-performance Professional Scrum Team

About This Book

  • For everyone who works with or relies on Scrum, including developers, designers, architects, testers, business analysts, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, managers, and other stakeholders
  • Focuses primarily on using Scrum for software products, but can support development of adaptive solutions for any complex problem performance Professional Scrum Team

  • Powerful techniques for the 80-90% of modern software teams that use Scrum and its variants
  • Reflects state-of-the-art tools built into Azure DevOps, as well as its integration with GitHub
  • Introduces high-productivity features for Scrum teams in Azure Boards and Azure Test Plans
  • Complements Scrum.org’s Professional Scrum Developer (PSD) program -- created by this book’s author together with Ken Schwaber

PART I SCRUMDAMENTALS
CHAPTER 1 Professional Scrum 
CHAPTER 2 Azure DevOps 
CHAPTER 3 Azure Boards 

PART II PRACTICING PROFESSIONAL SCRUM
CHAPTER 4 The Pre-game 
CHAPTER 5 The Product Backlog 
CHAPTER 6 The Sprint 
CHAPTER 7 Planning with Tests 
CHAPTER 8 Effective Collaboration 

PART III IMPROVING
CHAPTER 9 Improving Flow 
CHAPTER 10 Continuous Improvement 
CHAPTER 11 Scaled Professional Scrum 
RICHARD HUNDHAUSEN is the president of Accentient, a company that helps software organizations and teams deliver better products by understanding and leveraging Azure DevOps and Scrum. He is a Professional Scrum Trainer and co-creator of the Nexus Scaled Scrum framework. As a software developer, consultant, and trainer with nearly 40 years of experience, he understands that software is built and delivered by people and not by processes or tools. You can reach Richard at richard@accentient.com.

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