Additional Resources

  • Schwaber, Ken and Jeff Sutherland. 2017. The Scrum Guide: The Definitive Guide to Scrum: The Rules of the Game. 2017. This terse guide to Scrum is considered by many to be the definitive description of the practice.

  • Rubin, Kenneth, 2012. Essential Scrum: A Practical Guide to the Most Popular Agile Process. This is a comprehensive guide to Scrum that addresses common issues related to Scrum adoptions.

  • Lacey, Mitch, 2016. The Scrum Field Guide: Agile Advice for Your First Year and Beyond, 2nd Ed. This guide to implementing Scrum focuses on nuts-and-bolts practical issues that arise in Scrum implementations.

  • Cohn, Mike. 2010. Succeeding with Agile: Software Development Using Scrum. This is another good alternative to (Rubin 2012) or (Lacey 2016).

  • Sutherland, Jeff, 2014. Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time. This business-oriented book presents the story of Scrum.

  • Stuart, Jenny, et al. “Six Things Every Software Executive Should Know about Scrum.” Construx White Paper, July 2018. This is a short overview of Scrum aimed at executives.

  • Stuart, Jenny, et al. “Staffing Scrum Roles,” Construx White Paper, August 2017. This paper describes common issues encountered in staffing Scrum roles.

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