Leading Agile Teams

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by Doug Rose
Publisher: Project Management Institute
Release Date: October 2015
Topic: Agile

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Book Description
Leading Agile Teams is a practical and engaging guide to help your organization embrace a more agile mindset. Most
organizations work in large groups when trying to find solutions for big problems. Agile teams are different. They get more
done by having a small self-organized team focus on the highest priority items. Each big problem is broken down and solved
by a small, stable group of dedicated professionals. This book will give you the knowledge and tools you need to create and
sustain strong agile teams. It is written for the developers, project managers, product owners, and ScrumMasters, who do
most of the legwork in getting agile up and running.

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Table of Contents
Cover Page

Title Page

Copyright Page
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 Dedication Page

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 So ware 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
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 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

Planning with Agile user Stories

Planning Incremental Delivery

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

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 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

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 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

Running PANCAKE Retrospectives

Running the Retrospective

Developing Action Items

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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