Leverage Sprint Goals to Supercharge Teamwork and Build Winning Products

There are many books on Scrum and how to do Scrum the right way. This isn't one of those books. Driving Value with Sprint Goals will teach you how to deliver exceptional value.

To build great products, all teams and participants must align behind clear goals that deliver real value (outcomes)--not just more features (output). Sprint Goals are your most powerful tool for achieving this alignment, but many teams avoid, misuse, or struggle with them. Maarten Dalmijn guides you through defining, creating, and executing on Sprint Goals that deliver outstanding value to customers and the business.

This concise guide is packed with strategies and concepts for building high-performing teams that accelerate the delivery of value. As you reconsider critical Scrum and product management processes through the lens of the Sprint Goal, you can transform your entire organization from being low-value "feature factories" to delivering high-value outcomes.

• Understand how making plans doesn't start with planning but with intent
• Use humble planning together with intent to deal with surprises as you discover and learn what's necessary while you do the work
• Establish a laser-like focus on driving the outputs that lead to the most valuable outcomes
• Learn how to use Sprint Goals throughout the Sprint, at Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective, and for the ongoing work of building high-performing teams
• Learn what happens when Sprint Goals are absent or misapplied, and how to avoid those pitfalls

Driving Value with Sprint Goals will reshape the way you think about delivering value by offering a fresh and cohesive perspective invaluable to every Product Owner, Product Manager, Scrum Master, Agile Coach, and tech executive.

"Maarten masterfully bridges the gap between Scrum and product management. If you want to create products that truly make a difference, you need to read this book."
--Pawel Huryn, Author, Product Coach

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Author: Maarten Dalmijn
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Published: 07/27/2023
Series: Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Cohn)
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 9.14h x 7.11w x 0.56d
ISBN: 9780137381920

About the Author

Maarten Dalmijn is a consultant, speaker and trainer at Dalmijn Consulting. Maarten helps teams to beat the feature factory all over the world. Millions of practitioners have read his best-practice articles on Agile, Scrum, and Product Management. He specializes in helping companies to build empowered teams that can discover better ways of delivering value. Maarten is a frequent speaker at Fortune 500 companies, government organizations and international industry conferences. He has worked with many award-winning start-ups and scale-ups. Maarten is an ambassador and editor at Serious Scrum, the largest Scrum publication on Medium.