TY - BOOK AU - Maximini,Dominik ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - The Scrum Culture: Introducing Agile Methods in Organizations T2 - Management for Professionals, SN - 9783319118277 AV - HD28-70 U1 - 658.4092 23 PY - 2015/// CY - Cham PB - Springer International Publishing, Imprint: Springer KW - Economics KW - Software engineering KW - Computer science KW - Business planning KW - Economics/Management Science KW - Business Strategy/Leadership KW - Computing Milieux KW - Organization/Planning KW - Software Engineering N1 -  Part I: The Scrum Culture -- Part II: The Theory of Introducing Scrum -- Part III: The Practical Application of Kotter's Principles -- Part IV: Case Study -- Part V: Additional Information N2 - This book is a guide for managers, Scrum Masters and agile coaches who are interested in agile organizational methods and who are planning to introduce Scrum at their own company. Scrum is not only a product development framework but can also be used to structure activities for agile and lean organizational development.   Divided into five major parts, the book first introduces and defines the Scrum Culture. It explains its relevance, highlights a number of pain points typical for first encounters with Scrum, and embeds it in an introduction to organizational change. This is complemented with many real-life examples that help to apply the concepts to readers’ own specific contexts. The second part describes the principles of introducing Scrum in detail, while the third part embarks on the practical application of these principles, drawing on a wealth of experience gathered in many successful introduction projects. Part four focuses on a detailed case study of a Scrum transformation before part five provides, in closing, a number of appendices offering extensive information on Scrum and its principles UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11827-7 ER -