{"id":1429,"date":"2014-03-31T03:15:06","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T03:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inspiredtoeducate.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/?p=1429"},"modified":"2014-03-31T11:40:01","modified_gmt":"2014-03-31T11:40:01","slug":"5-free-e-books-on-scrum-and-agile-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/inspiredtoeducate.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/5-free-e-books-on-scrum-and-agile-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Free E-Books on Scrum and Agile Testing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- Facebook Like Button v1.9.6 BEGIN [http:\/\/blog.bottomlessinc.com] -->\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Finspiredtoeducate.net%2Finspiredtoeducate%2F5-free-e-books-on-scrum-and-agile-testing%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height: 30px; align: left; margin: 2px 0px 2px 0px\"><\/iframe>\n<!-- Facebook Like Button END -->\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/inspiredtoeducate.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/huddle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-703\" title=\"huddle\" src=\"http:\/\/inspiredtoeducate.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/huddle.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"http:\/\/inspiredtoeducate.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/huddle.jpg 500w, http:\/\/inspiredtoeducate.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/huddle-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For teams that do creative work, Scrum has become a popular management framework to help improve team focus and provide a disciplined pattern for continuous improvement. \u00a0Working with teams that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scrum_(software_development)\" target=\"_blank\">use agile\/scrum<\/a>, it has been fun to see how the leadership and meeting patterns in scrum help improve positive communication in the organization. \u00a0 \u00a0I don&#8217;t present Scrum to you as &#8220;THE&#8221; perfect solution for running your projects. \u00a0 No project management framework is perfect. \u00a0 I,however, do believe that Scrum helps your team and organization discover ways to improve together. \u00a0 \u00a0 As Ken Schwaber would note, Scrum has just enough structure to help your team start the continuous improvement process.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">To help support some of my friends who are just getting started with Agile development, \u00a0I wanted to collect together a few free e-books that review Scrum, Kanban, and the engineering test practices linked to agile. \u00a0 \u00a0As I continue to improve my thinking around agile leadership, I believe it&#8217;s important to help our teams learn how to engineer software so that it&#8217;s easy to test and change. \u00a0 \u00a0Creating software that&#8217;s easy to test and change starts with thoughtful design. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a style=\"font-size: 13px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scrum.org\/Scrum-Guide\" target=\"_blank\">Scrum Guide<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">\u00a0by Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"font-size: 13px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.infoq.com\/minibooks\/scrum-xp-from-the-trenches\" target=\"_blank\">Scrum from the Trenches<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">\u00a0by Henrik Kniberg<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"font-size: 13px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.infoq.com\/minibooks\/kanban-scrum-minibook\" target=\"_blank\">Kanban and Scrum &#8211; 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