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"So much of Scrum is a way of thinking about the project, the customers, and the team that an interactive class like the 2-day ScrumMaster course - where I learned by example - is the best way to learn it."
- Mike Cohn, Mountain Goat Software

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Scrum Library

White Papers

	RUP and Scrum
	Primavera Success Story
	Explanation of Scrum
	Controlled-Chaos Software Development
	Living on the Edge
	Self Organization
	Emergence of Essential Systems

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Vocabulary

Scrum provides a language for this common sense way of organizing, performing and managing work:

Backlog	All work to be performed in the forseeable future, both well defined and requiring further definition.

Sprint	A period of 30 days of less where a set of work will be performed to create a deliverable.

Sprint Backlog	That work that is well-enough defined that it can be worked on with relatively little change over a period of 30 days or less and will result in a tangible, incremental deliverable.

Scrum	A daily meeting at which progress and impediments to progress are reviewed.

Scrum Meeting Rules	Protocol for effective Scrum daily meetings.

Scrum Team	The cross-functional team working on the sprint's backlog.

Contact Ken Schwaber at ken.schwaber@verizon.net for consulting resources, training, mentoring, and information.

The Enterprise and Scrum
by Ken Schwaber

A new book for those managing large projects and programs, or wishing to adopt Scrum throughout the enterprise. Due out June 13, 2007 from Microsoft Press.

Agile Project Management
with Scrum
by Ken Schwaber

The rules and practices from Scrum - a simple process for managing complex projects - are few, straightforward, and easy to learn. In this illuminating series of case studies, Scrum co-creator and evangelist Ken Schwaber identifies the real-world lessons culled from his years of experience coaching companies in agile project management. [Read more]