Highlights from : From Scrum Shortcuts without Cutting Corners/Agile Tactics, Tools, & Tips / Ilan Goldstein...

Sometimes, I like reading from the end of the story('a snark was a boojum you see'). This book appears to have come from introspection after having finished many a game. Start anywhere. It's a non-sequential smorgasbord - worth your time. It will help from making false starts/mis-fires into scrum.

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Shortcut 2: Fragile Agile /

Possibly one of the most frustrating comments that I hear when speaking to novice software teams is, “We do Scrum—we work in sprints, we have a daily scrum, and we even have a product backlog.” In addition, although they may not explicitly say it, you can often add, “We don’t write any documentation, we release haphazardly, we plan on the fly, and we don’t care about buggy code because we’ll just fix it up with a bug iteration.” ARGH! These people give Scrum a terrible name, and worse still, when their projects inevitably fail, it is very difficult, if not impossible, to win back the senior stakeholders who have been burnt by a badly warped Scrum implementation.

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 Chapter 1. Scrum Startup
     Shortcut 1: Scrum on the Pitch
     Shortcut 2: Fragile Agile
     Shortcut 3: Creative Comfort
     Wrap Up
 Chapter 2. Attitudes and Abilities
     Shortcut 4: Masterful ScrumMaster
     Shortcut 5: Rock Stars or Studio Musicians?
     Shortcut 6: Picking Your Team Line-Up
     Wrap Up
 Chapter 3. Planning and Protecting
     Shortcut 7: Setting the Scrum Stage
     Shortcut 8: Plan the Sprint, Sprint the Plan
     Shortcut 9: Incriminating Impediments
     Wrap Up
 Chapter 4. Requirement Refinement
     Shortcut 10: Structuring Stories
     Shortcut 11: Developing the Definition of Done
     Shortcut 12: Progressive Revelations
     Wrap Up
 Chapter 5. Establishing Estimates
     Shortcut 13: Relating to Estimating
     Shortcut 14: Planning Poker at Pace
     Shortcut 15: Transitioning Relatively
     Wrap Up
 Chapter 6. Questioning Quality
     Shortcut 16: Bah! Scrum Bug!
     Shortcut 17: We Still Love the Testers!
     Shortcut 18: Automation Nation
     Wrap Up
 Chapter 7. Monitoring and Metrics
     Shortcut 19: Metrics That Matter
     Shortcut 20: Outstanding Stand-Ups
     Shortcut 21: Taming the Task Board
     Wrap Up
 Chapter 8. Retros, Reviews, and Risks
     Shortcut 22: To-Dos for Your Sprint Reviews
     Shortcut 23: Retrospective Irrespective
     Shortcut 24: Risk Takers and Mistake Makers
     Wrap Up
 Chapter 9. Managing the Managers
     Shortcut 25: Perception Is Reality
     Shortcut 26: Our Lords and Masters
     Shortcut 27: Morphing Managers in the Matrix
     Wrap Up
 Chapter 10. Larger Lessons
     Shortcut 28: Scrum Rollout Reckoning
     Shortcut 29: Eyes on the Prize
     Shortcut 30: Shortcut to the Final Level
     Final Wrap Up
 References

http://www.agilemanifesto.org/