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Agile Project Management with Scrum (Microsoft Professional)
By: Ken Schwaber Publisher: Microsoft Press Average Rating: Binding: Paperback Label: Microsoft Press Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 192 Publication Date: March 10, 2004
Product Description: Apply the principles of Scrum, one of the most popular agile programming methods, to software project management—and focus your team on delivering real business value. Author Ken Schwaber, a leader in the agile process movement and a co-creator of Scrum, brings his vast expertise to helping you guide the product and software development process more effectively and efficiently. Help eliminate the ambiguity into which so many software projects are borne, where vision and planning documents are essentially thrown over the wall to developers. This high-level reference describes how to use Scrum to manage complex technology projects in detail, combining expert insights with examples and case studies based on Scrum. Emphasizing practice over theory, this book explores every aspect of using Scrum, focusing on driving projects for maximum return on investment.
Written for idiots?... Process defined by "stories"?... Where is the "Scrum process" formally defined? I cannot find. I can find only stories about fictitious companies, level of disorder at these companies, and magical Silver Bullet named (but not defined) "scrum" that automatically, through long meetings, brings the order and happiness. Probably the level and style of presentations fits well to the level of "expertise" and education of average American programmer. And illustrates the trend: departing from rigorous formal methods towards "blah, blah" methods. PLAIN NONSENSE!
Great Book, although I needed more This is a great book, and an easy read. It gives examples of problems faced by the company, and how they were resolved using scrum. Personally, I needed a little more than that. I needed more indepth explanation of scrum. In general, this book is good to have.
Scrum defined If you want to learn Agile/Scrum, this is a good book to read. The topics are well covered. Who are the stakeholders? Who is chicken, who is pig are all answered. What is Sprint, backlog, velocity, burn down? Why does agile work where others fail in software development? Good examples and explanation of the subject. What is lacking is a cheat sheet of practice principles which one can deduce also, but it would be nice to have. Maybe next version. Enjoy reading it.
Outstanding book on Scrum and software project management This book gives a clear explanation of what Scrum is, by one of the people who invented it. This is all you'll need to learn the basics. Additionally, the author gives a number of chapters on real world examples of working in companies with Scrum. He explains various real world situations, the politics you have to deal with, and the gamut of problems project managers are faced with in trying to manage teams, bosses, bs and all the nonsense that happens at work. I really enjoyed this book because it is more than theoretical. It offers real world insights into dealing with real situations. Great book. Easy to read. I highly reccomend it.
Useful! Very useful to get Scrum, especially in the direction of how to use it RIGHT when managing agile projects.
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