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Insight — Shipping great software requires a deep understanding of the desires, needs, and
tastes of the customers. It is the product owner ’ s job to have this understanding.
Resources — It takes a surprising amount of resources — including time, money, people,
and technology — to build and ship software. You need to allocate and spend resources
carefully.
Planning — For planning, you need a process, and you need tools. Scrum is a planning
process, and TFS is a planning tool.
Features — Ultimately, the success of your software is measured by the usefulness and
quality of what you produce. It can be considered useful in terms of productivity, education,
entertainment, or any other attribute your customers value. Scrum is a product - focused
method for producing products with the right features for your customers.
With all this in place, you have the raw ingredients to ship great software.
Several project management methodologies are commonly used in shipping software. This chapter
discusses three of them: Scrum, MSF, and Waterfall. It presents highlights of the three methodologies
and compares their signifi cant project attributes.
You ’ re now ready to begin learning more about running Scrum projects. In Chapter 2, you ’ ll learn
about the organization of a Scrum team.
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