If you want to use Scrum to delight your customers, Essential Scrum is the complete, single-source reference and guidebook you’ve been searching for. Leading Scrum coach and trainer Kenny Rubin illuminates the values, principles, and practices of Scrum, and describes flexible, tried-and-true approaches that can help you implement it far more effectively. Drawing on his experience helping hundreds of organizations succeed with Scrum, Rubin guides you in acquiring a deep understanding of Scrum and how to apply it effectively at a team, product, and portfolio level. From start to finish, this book provides every team member, manager, and executive, with a common understanding of Scrum, a shared vocabulary they can use in applying it, and practical knowledge for driving maximum value from it.