NEWS (June 2015): 2nd edition available! Read the online version at InfoQ, or purchase a print version from there. "Your writing style is great, and the information that you provide is very useful ... Your are an asset to the Scrum community" -- Ken Schwaber (co-founder of Scrum) "Henrik's book is a starter kit of basic practices that help teams move beyond trying to do Scrum to executing Scrum well." -- Jeff Sutherland (co-founder of Scrum) "Henrik's book isn't a philosophical explanation of why Scrum works or why you might want to try this or that. It is a description of how one well-running agile team works. Henrik provides a host of good practices along with the necessary context to help us learn better how to do Scrum and XP in the trenches of our own projects." -- Mike Cohn (author of Agile Estimating and Planning) "excellent document, serving as an adequate introduction to XP and Scrum" -- theServerSide.com "Henrik goes on to describe some