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Agile & Scrum

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This topic covers the iterative frameworks and methodologies used in modern project management. Learners will understand how to implement sprints, manage backlogs, facilitate daily standups, and continuously deliver value in fast-paced development environments.

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📚Books(4)

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Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great

Derby and Larsen's practitioner manual for running effective retrospectives, with a five-stage structure and a catalog of concrete facilitation activities. Targets the continuous-improvement loop that most teams perform poorly.

intermediate🇬🇧
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User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development

Mike Cohn's standard reference on writing and managing user stories: structure, splitting, acceptance criteria, estimation, and planning. Addresses the single artifact teams most often get wrong when defining product backlog work.

intermediate🇬🇧
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Succeeding with Agile: Software Development Using Scrum

Mike Cohn's field guide to adopting Scrum at organizational scale, covering team structure, role transitions, distributed teams, scaling, and metrics. Pattern-and-case-study driven rather than introductory, aimed at people actually leading a transition.

advanced🇬🇧
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Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time

Scrum co-creator Jeff Sutherland's narrative account of why Scrum works, drawing on its origins in his fighter-pilot and software careers. Frames Scrum for a general management audience through stories rather than ceremony mechanics.

beginner🇬🇧

🌐Websites(2)

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Manifesto for Agile Software Development

The 2001 founding document of the Agile movement, stating four values and twelve principles signed by seventeen software thought leaders. Establishes the philosophy that Scrum and every other agile method operationalize.

beginner🇬🇧
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The 2020 Scrum Guide

The canonical 13-page definition of Scrum by its co-creators, covering the framework's roles, events, artifacts, and underlying empirical theory. Free, brand-neutral, and the single source of truth that every certification and practitioner defers to.

beginner🇬🇧

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