Acknowledgments Author''s Note 1 Reimagining Paths to Faculty Vitality in Higher Education Understanding Faculty Career Stresses New Faculty Mid-career Faculty Women Faculty Faculty of Color Contingent Faculty Shifting the Narrative Introducing Agile and Scrum Origins of Agile and Scrum Scrum Values Applying Agile to Faculty Work An Agile Faculty Manifesto Agile Faculty Values Enacting the Agile Faculty Mindset 2 Working the Agile Way Using Scrum What Is Scrum? How Is Scrum Different? What Is the Scrum Process? What Happens during the Sprint? How Have I Used Scrum in My Own Experience? A Research Example A Service Example A Teaching Example Wrapping Up 3 Organizing and Prioritizing Your Personal Research Agenda To-Do List vs. Backlog Create Your Research Agenda Backlog Build a Realistic Sprint Plan from the Backlog Make Your Sprint Backlog Visible Remain Agile in the Face of Change or Opportunity Wrapping Up 4 Running a Collaborative Research Project or Program Understanding the Foundations of Collaboration Laying the Groundwork for Good Scrum Research Teams Who, and How Many? How Will You Work Together? Prioritizing, Estimating, and Visualizing the Research Backlog Prioritizing with a Product Owner Estimating Backlog Stories Estimating with T-shirt Sizing Estimating with Story Points Estimating in Practice Scaling the Backlog across Multiple Teams Wrapping Up 5 Leading Effective Agile Committees Serving as an Agile Leader Launching (or Resetting) the Agile Faculty Committee Pick the Right People Hold a Committee Retreat Team Building Committee Charter Development Goal Setting and Backlog Generating First Sprint Planning Facilitating the Agile Committee Setting Meeting Agendas Facilitating Discussion Managing Conflict Wrapping Up 6 Mentoring Students and Peers with Agile Activities Understanding Mentorship as an Agile Teaching Activity Using Epics and Stories with Undergraduate Mentees Mentoring Research Students Mentoring New Faculty Mutual Faculty Mentoring Wrapping Up 7 Organizing Your Course as an Epic Rethinking Backward Design as Agile Course Design Brainstorming about the Course Articulating Epics and Stories Determining Assessment Criteria for Epics Framing the Course Schedule Creating a New Course Using Agile Backward Design Grant Writing: Brainstorming about the Course Grant Writing: Articulating Epics and Stories Grant Writing: Determining Assessment Criteria for Epics Grant Writing: Framing the Course Schedule Revising an Existing Course Using Agile Backward Design Publishing: Brainstorming about the Course Publishing: Articulating Epics and Stories Publishing: Determining Assessment Criteria for Epics Publishing: Framing the Course Schedule Adapting the Agile Backward Design Process in Other Contexts Multi-section Courses Curriculum (Re)Design Wrapping Up Appendix 7.1: Complete Schedule for Grant Writing Course Appendix 7.2: Complete Schedule for Publishing 8 Planning and Implementing Scrum-Based Group Projects Comparing Cooperation and Collaboration Aligning a Group Project Idea with Important Course Considerations Creating a Short Group Project with One Sprint Creating a Long Group Project with Multiple Sprints Writing the Assignment Sheet Encouraging Collaboration and Introducing Scrum Acting as Product Owner and Scrum Master Product Owner Scrum Master Wrapping Up Afterword: Imagining the Agile College and University What if . important committees ran like Scrum teams? . student and faculty peer mentoring used an Agile coaching approach? . programs were sprint- rather than semester-based? . research teams were housed in interdisciplinary, collaborative, Agile centers? .

academic publishing used an agile model? Wrapping Up References.