This guide shows how development teams can plan, track, and manage work by combining the Scrum agile framework and Microsoft’s Azure ALM/DevOps toolset. Richard Hundhausen covers team formation, backlogs, Sprints, test plans, collaboration, flow, continuous improvement, Azure Boards, Azure Test Plans, and the real-world tradeoffs associated with DevOps.
The book has tips throughout from experienced Professional Scrum Developers, and Hundhausen has organized the material to complement Scrum.org’s Professional Scrum Developer (PSD) program.
Author: Richard Hundhausen Publisher: Microsoft Press Date: February 2021 Pages: 432 ISBN: 978-0136789239 Print: 0136789234 Kindle: B08F5HCNJ7 Audience: Developers interested in Scrum Level: Intermediate Category: Methodology

Topics covered:
- Deepen your understanding of the Scrum framework and Professional Scrum as based on the 2020 Scrum Guide.
- Provide proven work item planning and tracking, and quickly drive value from Azure Boards
- Improve your Scrum “pre-game”: the tasks you’ll perform before your first Sprint
- Use Azure DevOps to create and manage backlogs, plan Sprints, and collaborate throughout them
- Improve at scale with Scaled Professional Scrum and the Nexus scaled Scrum framework
- Recognize which practices are still most efficiently performed without tools
- Define and optimize team flow, overcome common dysfunctions, and evolve into a high-performance Professional Scrum Team
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