Suggested Reading for Scrum Practitioners

Fundamentals of Scrum

• What is Scrum?
• The Scrum Guide 2020 [#ScrumGuide2020]
• The Scrum Guide 2017
• The Scrum Guide 2020 — Reordered [#ScrumGuide2020]
• Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide [#ScrumAntiPatterns]
• Scrum Glossary
• A Brief Overview of the Scrum Framework [#Video]
• Scrum Roles [#Video][#ScrumTapas]
• Scrum Artifacts [#Video][#ScrumTapas]
• Scrum Events and Activities [#Video][#ScrumTapas]
• On Complexity: Why Your Software Project Needs Scrum
• Moving Your Scrum Downfield - Six Essential Traits of the Game
• The Benefits of Scrum & Agile
• The promise of business agility
• US Department of Defence (DOD) has made it illegal to do waterfall
• Scrum: A Brief History of a Long-Lived Hype – Ullizee-Inc
• Scrum Guide 2020 Updates [#ScrumGuide2020]
• What 4 Key Changes To The Scrum Guide Tell Us About Scrum [#ScrumGuide2020]

Empiricism and Scrum Values

• The Three Pillars of Empiricism (Scrum)
• Scrum Principles and Values [#Video][#ScrumTapas]
• Closed-loop feedback control with Scrum
• There’s value in the Scrum Values
• Scrum Values
• Maximize Scrum with the Scrum Values: Courage, Focus, Commitment, Openness, and Respect
• 4 Ways to Coach with the Scrum Values
• Intralinks Case Study: Scrum Reboot This Time With The Values

Product Owner

• What is a Product Owner?
• Product Owner Learning Path
• Agile Product Ownership in a Nutshell [#Video]
• Product Owner. Not the Agile name for project manager or other outdated functions
• Product Owner, actually owns the product
• 58 Product Owner Theses
• Evolution of the Product Owner
• The New New Product Owner
• 14 Stances of Highly Effective Product Owners
• The 18 Characteristics of a Great Product Owner
• Attributes of Professional Product Owner
• 15 things a Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO) actually does
• 10 Product Owner Questions
• Product Owner Anti-Patterns — 31+2 Ways to Improve as a PO [#ScrumAntiPatterns]
• Why you Need Only ONE Product Owner
• Hiring: 71 Scrum Product Owner Interview Questions to Avoid Agile Imposters
• The Product Owner is a Proxy for Stakeholders [#ScrumMyth]
• 32 Scrum Stakeholder Anti-Patterns [#ScrumAntiPatterns]

Developers

• What is a Scrum Development Team?
• Team Member Learning Path
• Evolution of the Development Team
• About Self-organizing Teams
• The 25 Characteristics of a Great Development Team
• Development Team Anti-Patterns [#ScrumAntiPatterns]
• The Development Team — Just A Bunch Of Developers or a Real Team?
• Professional Scrum teams build software that works
• The Importance of Professionalism [#Video][#ScrumTapas]

Software Development Complementary Practices

• I do continuous delivery, why should I Sprint?
• Using a "Technical Debt Register" in Scrum
• Three Strategies for Fitting Refactoring into Your Sprints [#new]
• Testing in Agile teams - how to iteratively take care of project quality
• ATDD, BDD, TDD … What’s in a name?
• Scrum And DevOps
• The Convergence of Scrum and DevOps
• A modern source control system supports DevOps & Agility
• What DevOps Taught Me About Agile
• DevOps Cake!
• Scrum and Continuous Delivery [#Video][#ScrumTapas]
• The Importance of Vertically Slicing Architecture [#Video][#ScrumTapas]
• Technical Debt vs. Not "Done" Work [#Video][#ScrumTapas]
• Open Practice Library [#new]

Product Backlog

• What is a Product Backlog?
• Product Backlog Upholds Transparency
• The Importance of Product Backlog Transparency [#Video][#ScrumTapas]
• Four Steps to Keep Your Product Backlog Small and Manageable
• The Product Backlog and Technical Debt
• Product Backlog and the Tea Leaves Effect
• The Product Backlog is Maintained Exclusively by the Product Owner [#ScrumMyth]
• In Scrum, the Product Backlog has to consist out of User Stories [#ScrumMyth]
• In Scrum, the Product Backlog is prioritized [#ScrumMyth]
• Story Points are Required in Scrum [#ScrumMyth]
• 28 Product Backlog Anti-Patterns [#ScrumAntiPatterns]

Product Vision and Release Planning

• 10 Tips for Product Owners on the Product Vision
• Release planning and predictable delivery
• Tips for Agile Product Roadmaps & Product Roadmap Examples
• Measuring Success, Measuring Value

Sprint Backlog

• What is a Sprint Backlog?
• The Sprint Backlog Defined [#ScrumTapas][#Video]
• The Sprint Backlog can’t change during the Sprint [#ScrumMyth]
• Sprint Backlog fully built and assigned in Sprint Planning [#ScrumMyth]
• The Sprint Backlog is a Commitment [#ScrumMyth]

Sprint Planning

• Why, What, How - Sprint Planning [#ScrumGuide2020]
• Sprint Planning Checklist
• Scrum: Don’t Lick the Cookie
• Scrum Guide change: Planning Retrospective items into a Sprint Backlog
• 20 Sprint Planning Anti-Patterns [#ScrumAntiPatterns]

Daily Scrum

• Daily Scrum Anti-Patterns: 20 Ways to Improve [#ScrumAntiPatterns]
• Daily Scrum Is a Status Meeting [#ScrumMyth]

Increment

• What is an Increment in Scrum?
• The Purpose of Scrum is rarely realized – a path to better feedback
• 5 Challenges Creating a Done Increment
• There is failure in not finishing all Sprint Backlog Items [#ScrumMyth]
• In Scrum, releases are done only at the end of the Sprint [#ScrumMyth]
• You can only Release the Product at the end of the Sprint [#ScrumMyth]

Sprint Review

• Sprint Review: Much More Than Just A Demo
• The Sprint Review is a Demo [#ScrumMyth]
• 15 Sprint Review Anti-Patterns Holding Back Scrum Teams [#ScrumAntiPatterns]

Sprint Retrospective

• 11 Ideas to Spice up Your Retrospective
• Sprint Retrospectives: Solutions to 4 Common Problems
• Sprint Retrospective Anti-Patterns [#ScrumAntiPatterns]
• Scrum Guide change: Planning Retrospective items into a Sprint Backlog
• Getting business value out of Agile Retrospectives
• Which Questions do you Ask in Retrospectives?
• 21 Sprint Retrospective Anti-Patterns Impeding Scrum [#ScrumAntiPatterns]

Books

Check out our lists of recommended books about various Scrum related topics and specific complementary practices:

• Suggested Books for Applying Professional Scrum
• Suggested Books for Applying Professional Scrum to Software Development