Scrum

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We live in a world that is broken For those who believe that there must be a efficient way for people to get things done, here from Scrum pioneer Jeff Sutherland is a brilliantly discursive, thought provoking book about the management process that is changing the way we live.In the future, historians may look back on human progress and draw a sharp line designating before Scrum and after Scrum Scrum is that ground breaking It already drives most of the world s top technology companies And now it s starting to spread to every domain where people wrestle with complex projects.If you ve ever been startled by how fast the world is changing, Scrum is one of the reasons why Productivity gains of as much as 1200% have been recorded, and there s no lucid or compelling explainer of Scrum and its bright promise than Jeff Sutherland, the man who put together the first Scrum team than twenty years ago.The thorny problem Jeff began tackling back then boils down to this people are spectacularly bad at doing things quickly and efficiently Best laid plans go up in smoke Teams often work at cross purposes to each other And when the pressure rises, unhappiness soars Drawing on his experience as a West Point educated fighter pilot, biometrics expert, early innovator of ATM technology, and V.P of engineering or CTO at eleven different technology companies, Jeff began challenging those dysfunctional realities, looking for solutions that would have global impact.In this book you ll journey to Scrum s front lines where Jeff s system of deep accountability, team interaction, and constant iterative improvement is, among other feats, bringing the FBI into the 21st century, perfecting the design of an affordable 140 mile per hour 100 mile per gallon car, helping NPR report fast moving action in the Middle East, changing the way pharmacists interact with patients, reducing poverty in the Third World, and even helping people plan their weddings and accomplish weekend chores Woven with insights from martial arts, judicial decision making, advanced aerial combat, robotics, and many other disciplines, Scrum is consistently riveting But the most important reason to read this book is that it may just help you achieve what others consider unachievable whether it be inventing a trailblazing technology, devising a new system of education, pioneering a way to feed the hungry, or, closer to home, a building a foundation for your family to thrive and prosper. Download Scrum – kino-fada.fr After Ken Schwaber and I wrote Software in 30 Days I felt we didn t have enough stories about Scrum outside of software development This book is for the general business reader in any domain It also tel...Once I got over the extremely self aggrandizing tone of the author, I found some of the points quite useful Basically this is a way of operationalizing the 80 20 rule Here are the things I took away from it 1 Good team size 4 6 is optimal, 20 is way too many.2 Multitasking is a myth people who think they re good at it, actually are the worst The truth is people are serial processing, not parallel, and it takes the brain longer to switch gears so all you re doing is slowing yourself down Once I...I was trying to decide what to give this book as a rating It wasn t what I was hoping for I really don t want to hear how smart the creator is or how much better what he is doing is compared to other methodologies what I want to hear is the nuts and bolts of how to make this idea work and what separates it from the rest of the herd Frankly, nothing presented showed me any of what I was looking for So it was going to be either a 3or less neutral or just pass by not giving any rating I was trying to decide what to give this book as a rating It wasn t what I was hoping for I really don t want to hear how smart the creator is or how much better what he is doing is compared to other methodologies what I want to hear is the nuts and bolts of how to make this idea work and what separates it from the rest of the herd Frankly, nothing presented showed me any of what I was looking for So it was going to be either a 3or less neutral or just pass by not giving any rating at al..., , , ,, , , , , , ,, , , , , , , , The book is basic for someone who already studies and practices Agile Methodologies for a long time But the book deserves five stars because goes on the Why of Scrum, Why Scrum works and how it is adapted to the new realities of work in the 21st century Some of the interesting topics The origins of Scrum, Team principles, Waste management, The importance of priorities and time management and how this fits with estimation and how to begin implementing Scrum in your team or org.So it s strong The book is basic for someone who already studies and p...If you are interested in the historical context of scrum and want to read around and about it, this looks like a good book for you But if you want to learn scrum this is not the book for you.This isn t a guide to Scrum per se Which is probably good, since there are lots of guides to scrum at the practices at varying levels of details What this book does is talk help you understand the value of scrum through stories There is an appendix of scrum practices at the end The book is full of war stories both literally and figuratively , and Sutherland is clearly proud of how he, his family, and organizations he has worked with, have applied scrum Reading this book will help energize This isn t a guide to Scrum per se Which is probably good, since there are lots of guides to scrum at the practices at varying levels of details What this book does is talk help you understand the value of scrum through stories There is an appendix of scrum practices at ...I had high expectations for this book, but it left me feeling kinda blah about it.Maybe I have business self help book overload, I just wasn t blown away by this.The majority of the book got skimmed as I wasn t sucked into reading each word and looking for the gold nuggets, the magic bullet.I can say , this is a Myth Rule Breaker book It is a revolution creating , trend setting , thought provoking , boldly truth spreading , Modern SDLC patterned , long awaited successful system for work telling Book Jeff s metaphor for Scrum Careful alignment, unity of purpose, and clarity of goal come together proves that, he really spent worth time to interrogate , analyse our present organisational system by looking at how people ACTUALLY work, rather than how they SAY they work I can say , this is a Myth Rule Breaker book It is a revolut...This is not a Scrum how to book Rather, the story of its making and its philosophy The concepts are highly adaptable to not just software, business, but everyday life as well He talks of how to increase productivity of teams by improving communication, eliminating waste, and con...

Scrum
  • 06 January 2017
  • Hardcover
  • 237 pages
  • 038534645X
  • Jeff Sutherland
  • Scrum