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Title: Agile Project Management with Scrum (Microsoft Professional) by Ken Schwaber ISBN: 0-7356-1993-X Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 10 March, 2004 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Agile PM through case studies
Comment: Ken Schwaber, the co-founder of Scrum, presents a text of case studies based on his experience helping teams implement Scrum.
Each case is a mini-retrospective focusing on topics such as planning a scrum project, project reporting, team formation, and team member responsibilites. Ken presents the situation, the application of a scrum practice, the lessons learned, and a conclusion. The chapters can be browsed and read out of order.
For those not familiar with Scrum, there is a useful appendix which covers the rules and practices of Scrum.
For those who learn through case studies, I highly recommend this book.
Rating: 3
Summary: Dale Carnegie revisited
Comment: If you have read any of Dale Carnegie's books you will see that all you are getting is a series of anecdotes. It takes a while to get to the essence of the book, where a few pages could have done that in the upfront chapters, then the gumpf could have filled the rest. If you think about it, you are a manager with little time who wants to implement the system, analogous to the scrum master holding the 15 minute daily meeting: I feel the book should have been written like that - have the chapter overview, have the introductory facts ie rules then do the work.
Rating: 5
Summary: Real world guide to implementing Scrum correctly.
Comment: Our organization recently implemented Scrum, and although the
Beedle/Schwaber book was great to get us off the ground on Scrum
theory, we immediately had many questions once we actually tried to implement it in real life projects. I agree with the notion that Scrum is conceptually easy to understand, but actually quite complex to implement correctly. The scrum forum has been helpful, but we really needed a cohesive reference of situational problems. The APMWS book really hit the nail on the head and delivered what we needed the most: a practical guide to Scrum with anecdotes and "what happens if..." situations from real world Scrum implementations. This came just in time for us, and we are feeling more confident for our upcoming certification class.
The appendices in the back are also very helpful. The "Rules"
appendix is perfect as a quick introduction to Scrum for new Team
members and Product Owners. It's actually quite detailed for being such a short appendix.
Also, for newbies the three main Roles are very nicely explained. We had some misconceptions that were immediately addressed by this book.
Anyway, from a Scrum newbie that is faced with implementation issues, thanks to Ken for putting together a real world implementation guide.
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Title: Agile Software Development with SCRUM by Ken Schwaber, Mike Beedle ISBN: 0130676349 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 15 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $30.95 |
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Title: Test-Driven Development in Microsoft .NET (Microsoft Professional) by James W. Newkirk, Alexei A. Vorontsov ISBN: 0735619484 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 14 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Agile and Iterative Development: A Manager's Guide by Craig Larman ISBN: 0131111558 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 15 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $34.99 |
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Title: Object Thinking (DV-Microsoft Professional) by David West ISBN: 0735619654 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 10 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Extreme Programming Adventures in C# (DV-Microsoft Professional) by Ron Jeffries ISBN: 0735619492 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 03 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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