Software in 30 Days (eBook)

KEN SCHWABER is a cofounder of the worldwide Agile software movement and cocreator, with Jeff Sutherland, of the "Scrum" technique for building software in 30 days. He is president of Scrum.org, a software consulting firm, and led the process management product revolution of the early 1990s. JEFF SUTHERLAND is the cocreator of Scrum, and was cosigner of the Agile Manifesto, which marked the start of the Agile movement. He has served as vice president of engineering or CTO at eleven software companies, managing the last seven entirely using Scrum, and achieved industry-leading, hyper-productive results. Jeff is the CEO of Scrum Inc., a consulting and training company.

Section I: Why Every Business In The World Can Produce Software In Thirty Days

This sections reviews how many organization struggle to develop software and how Software in Thirty Day's approach can eliminate the underlying problem.

Chapter 1: The Crisis in Software: The Wrong Process Produces The Wrong Results

Find out why so many software projects fail and why traditional methods are ill-suited to software development.

Chapter 2: Scrum: The Right Process Produces the Right Results

Understand the shift in thinking necessary to eliminate software project failure and deliver software in 30 days.

Chapter 3: Try It Yourself: The Pilot

You are interested. Learn how to run a pilot project that will successfully help you determine what to do next.

Chapter 4: What Can I Do?

Learn what you, as a manager, can do to make Software in 30 Days successful.

Section II: Why Every Business In The World Can Produce Software In Thirty Days

This section address how you can implement and embed Software in Thirty Days in your organization.

Chapter 5: Getting Started with Scrum

Understand how Scrum works.

Chapter 6: Scrum at the Project Level

Learn how to launch Scrum on a single project.

Chapter 7: Develop a Scrum Capability

Learn how to develop a Scrum capability in your organization.

Chapter 8: Scrum at the Enterprise Level

Consider spreading Scrum throughout the enterprise.

Appendices

1: Terminology

Look up terminology used in this book

2: Scrum Guide

Read the canonical guide to Scrum

3: A Playbook for Achieving Enterprise Agility

A Scrum enterprise adoption playbook in use since 1995.