Agile Project Management with SCRUM (Microsoft Professional) |
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K. Schwaber
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Pages: 192 (Paperback)
ISBN: 073561993X
Pub: Microsoft Press,U.S.
Pub date: 2004-02-01
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 18570
Reader Reviews:
Invaluable book. Do not start implementing SCRUM before reading it! (0/0 people found this helpful)
Scrum is easy to understand and hard to implement. You can read about the roles, artefacts and ceremonies on many websites however this isn't enough. You learn best by doing it and in this book Ken is giving us his experience so we don't make the same mistakes. Of course there are many more truths to be learnt but this book gives you an excellent start. A must have for anyone starting with Scrum!
Lots of case studies, (28/30 people found this helpful)
Scrum is a simple emperical process of project management. There are few rules and these are adequately explained in a few pages and within the appendix of this book. So what, you might ask, is the rest of the book taken up with.
Well there's lots of case studies to demonstrate the practical use of Scrum in different scenarios. I must admit to having found these case studies a little uninteresting at times and a bit repetitive, however by the end of the book I feel I probably appreciated their purpose more than I did whilst reading them.
In terms of whether the book is worth owning, I found it well enough written and in general quite useful, however I do feel the meat of the subject can be summed up in far fewer pages and I'm split between the feeling that fewer case studies would have been adequate and that some were just "fillers" to pad out the book and the fact that, maybe, you can never have too many examples.
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