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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments

Why You Should Buy This Book

Chapter 1 The Road Ahead

Chapter 2 Traditional Projects

The Project Management Institute

Waterfall

Failed Projects

Complex Adaptive Systems

Chapter 3 A New Lightweight Approach

The Agile Manifesto

“Agile” Is An Umbrella Term

Lean Software Development

The Three Most Common Agile Frameworks

Scrum

Extreme Programming

The Scaled Agile Framework

Chapter 4 Starting Agile In Your Organization

Identifying Current Challenges

Shoring Up Management

Agile Is Predictable

Self-Organized Teams

Defining The Agile Team Roles

ScrumMaster

Product Owner

Developers

Confusing Roles

Working With The PMO

Avoiding The Agile “Rowboat”

Renaming Over Retooling

Setting The Stage

Chapter 5 Thinking Like An Agile Team

Don't Depend On Superheroes

Training The Agile Team

Letting The Team Self-Organize

Delivering Like An Agile Team

Staying Agile With The ScrumMaster

Gathering Work With The Product Owner

Protecting The Team With The Project Manager

Spreading Agile

Chapter 6 Working Like An Agile Team

Creating A Project Charter

Writing Your Release Plan

ROVe Release

The SAFe Way

Delivering Without Scope

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Planning With Agile User Stories

Planning Incremental Delivery

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Planning Starts As Estimates
 Starting With User Roles

Creating User Stories

Writing Effective Stories

Grouping With Themes Or Epics

Using Relative Estimation

Playing Planning Poker

Calculating Your Velocity

Planning Your Sprints

Chapter 7 Driving Productive Agile Activities

Staying Lightweight

Timeboxing

Multitasking

Running Agile Activities

The Daily Standup

Creating The Product Backlog

Refining The Product Backlog

Planning Your Sprints

Demoing The Work

Team Improvement

Inviting The Right Groups

Gathering The Roadblocks

Keeping The Activity Moving

Moving The Daily Standup

Moving The Backlog Refinement

Moving The Sprint Planning

Listening To Feedback

Feedback During The Daily Standup

Feedback During Product Backlog Refinement

Feedback During The Sprint Demo

Feedback During The Retrospective

Agenda Setting

Reporting Status At Standups

Breaking The Sprint

Chapter 8 Reporting With Agile Charts And Boards

Keeping Agile Transparent

Communicating Progress

Creating A Task Board

Reading The Task Board

Sizing The Task Board

Burndown Charts

The Sprint Burndown Chart

The Release Burndown Chart

Updating The Burndown

Updating The Sprint Burndown Chart

Updating The Release Burndown Chart

Seeing Trouble

Dealing With Challenges

How To Avoid Expanding The Burndown

Retrofitting

Working In A Distributed Workspace

Chapter 9 Getting Better With Agile Retrospectives

Team Reflection

Starting Simple

Understanding Retrospectives

Following The Prime Directive

Using A Facilitator

Setting The Stage

Retrospectives With Distributed Teams

Keeping Track In The Retrospective

Creating A Starfish Diagram

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Running PANCAKE Retrospectives

Running The Retrospective

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 Developing SMART Goals

Flushing Out The Issues

Playing Games

Asking Good Questions

Asking The “Five Whys”

Finding Actions

Following Up On Actions

Chapter 10 Wrapping Up

Putting The Bell On The Cat

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