TY - BOOK AU - Bedarkar, Rama. TI - Agile scrum : : improving practices for business gains SN - 9788126560868 U1 - 005.365 1 PY - 2020/// CY - New Delhi PB - WILEY KW - Product backlog management KW - Sprint planning KW - Sprint execution and tracking N1 - 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 ER -