Includes bibliographical references and index.

Setting the stage: Agile and Scrum -- Finance speak -- Secure top management support but make sure to obtain middle management buy-in -- A visual requirements gathering for the product backlog -- Making the story point estimate comparable for Scrum enterprise-wide implementation -- The influence of architecture vision on team velocity and software quality -- From architecture vision to release and sprints planning to parallel software development -- Did you say product owner? -- The importance of automated, regression, and integration tests -- The importance of teamwork -- The new nature of management and leadership on a Scrum project -- How to adapt Scrum (without destroying its Agile foundations or doing negative ScrumButs) -- Scrum project readiness self-assessment -- Parting thoughts -- Two real-world software product development case studies -- Could you or should you have an abnormal termination of a Sprint?