Ebook: Professional Scrum Development With Microsoft Visual Studio 2012

Hundhausen Richard. Professional Scrum Development With Microsoft Visual Studio 2012
Microsoft Press, 2012, 385 pp., Eng., ISBN: 978-0-7356-5798-4, EPUB
Introduction
Scrum is a framework for developing and sustaining complex products, such as software. Scrum is just a set of rules, as defined in the Scrum Guide (http://www.scrum.org/Scrum-Guides), and it describes the roles, events, and artifacts, as well as the rules that bind them together. When used correctly, this framework enables a team to address complex problems while productively and creatively delivering products of the highest possible value. Scrum is an Agile method. In fact, it is the most popular Agile method in use today.
Scrum employs an iterative and incremental approach to optimizing predictability and controlling risk. This is due to the empirical process control nature of Scrum. Through proper use of inspection, adaptation, and transparency, a Scrum Team can try a new way of doing something (an experiment) and gauge its usefulness after a short iteration. They can then collectively decide to embrace, extend, or drop the practice. This includes the tools a team uses and how they use them.
Combining Scrum with the application lifecycle management (ALM) tools found in Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 is a powerful combination. It is the purpose of this book to establish a baseline understanding of Scrum, as well as how Scrum is supported in Visual Studio 2012. I will also illustrate which practices provide more value when executed without the use of tools. In addition, I will point out those tools which have been erroneously marketed as healthy when used by a collocated, collaborative Scrum Team.
In software development, anything and everything can change in a moment’s notice. Healthy teams know this. They also know that continuously inspecting and adapting the way things are done is a way of life. High-performance Scrum Development Teams take it a step further. They know that within every dysfunction or impediment identified is an opportunity to learn and improve. Reading this book is a great first step.
Supplemental files and examples for this book can be found at http://examples.oreilly.com/9780735657984-files/.