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Liked It Rated 4 stars “SCRUM is a popular Agile method and Ken Schwaber is co-creator of the method, so obviously he knows the subject well. If you're interested in alternative agile development methods, SCRUM is worthy of your review.” see full review » see other reviews »

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  “SCRUM is a popular Agile method and Ken Schwaber is co-creator of the method, so obviously he knows the subject well. If you're interested in alternative agile development methods, SCRUM is worthy of your review.”

  Raven wrote this review Wednesday, August 29 2007. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No

  
  
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  “ 2 of 3 people found the following review helpful: Great guidance on transitioning to Scrum - not just at Enterprise scale, July 16, 2007 By Rowan Bunning "Agile Coach, CSM, CSP" (Canberra, AUSTRALIA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME) The book is divided into three parts: * Part I is titled "Adopting Scrum" and provides an excellent outline of a scalable process for transitioning to Scrum along with description of some of the likely challenges (most of which is relevant to small-medium sized organizations as well as large ones). This includes a month-by-month activity description and some examples in the form of stories about "hypothetical" companies. * Part II goes into more detail by outlining several specific practices addressing Organizational, Engineering, People, and Product Owner - Team Relationship issues. Each practice answers a question that might well be asked by someone involved in a transition project. * Part III provides an extremely concise and authoritative overview of the Scrum process, terminology, related reading and an example Scrum Kickoff Meeting Agenda. This is followed by "Scrum Musings" - a series of 1-2 page essays on important concepts behind Scrum. Generally, I found that this book flows better than the first two books and is no less as inspiring a read. It also reflects the current maturity of Scrum in a number of subtle ways including the terminology used. One example that happens to be topical to a colleague of mine is that this book repeatably uses the terms Product Manager/Customer together so as to be explicitly inclusive of both product development and bespoke/internal application development projects. In this way, it comes across as clearer and more inclusive that the earlier literature. Judging by how much I got out of it, I would say that you certainly don't have to be doing an Enterprise-wide Scrum rollout to make this book well worth reading. You could expect though to get even more out of it once you go beyond one Scrum team and/or project to the challenges of co-ordinating multiple. Keep in mind that this is a short book at 145 pages and coverage is concise and not exhaustive. The brevity does make it quick to read though. Whilst I would not say that "The Enterprise and Scrum" is essential for all ScrumMasters concerned with only a single team and project, it could be considered essential reading for anyone dealing with multiple projects or pursuing wider adoption of Scrum within an organization. For some, the introductory material on the challenges and steps to transition to Scrum and the Appendices may be worth the purchase price on their own as it constitutes perhaps the most usable, definitive and up-to-date short reference currently available on the Scrum process and terminology. ”

  rowanb wrote this review Sunday, August 12 2007. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No