Agile Scrum: Improving Practices for Business Gains is for beginners in Scrum to deploy the practices in disciplined manner; for software project management executives to achieve their KPIs by mapping them to scrum practices; for the leadership to achieve organization agility by adopting the scrum values to empower their teams; and for scrum practitioners and consultants to learn from the author's experience.

SECTION A

1 Introduction to Agile Concepts

2 All about Scrum

3 Scrum Process: High-Level View

4 Product Backlog Management

5 Sprint Planning

6 Writing Effective User Stories

7 Sprint Execution and Tracking

8 Sprint Review

9 Sprint Retrospectives

10 Measurements and Metrics in Scrum

SECTION B

11 Software Development Life Cycle and Waterfall Model

12 Project Management in Scrum and Waterfall

13 Quality Management in Scrum

14 Customer Management in Scrum

15 Risk Management in Scrum

16 Cost Management in Scrum

SECTION C

17 Management Onboarding – First Step to Scrum Deployment

18 Scrum – Tool for Driving Change in Work Environment

19 Empowering Quality Assurance

20 Making Customer Relations Robust

21 Managing Collaboration in Scrum

22 Human Factor – Limitations of Scrum Deployment

23 Scrum Failure Is Never a Failure Rama Bedarkar has been a core software information technology professional with a total experience of 27 years in multiple professional areas, such as project management, quality management, process management, program management, technology management, people management, and customer management in India as well as abroad in Singapore and the United States. She worked in Singapore for 3.5 years, where she was involved in training the students of Bachelor and Masters’ Degrees of Computer Science courses run locally in Singapore – from the University of Oxford