Chapter 11. Portfolio Management Using Scrum

Developed in the mid 1990s, Scrum is now one of the most popular collections of agile project management practices in the agile industry. Influenced by lean thinking, which has its roots in the production process of Toyota, Scrum mapped these principles to software development. The result is a powerful framework for managing iterative-incremental projects. In this chapter, we’ll investigate how Scrum practices can be extended and applied in the context of agile portfolio management. This chapter, therefore, is not intended to replace other introductory books about Scrum that provide much more in-depth information about this process framework. (The bibliography section at the end of this book provides ...

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