Scrum for Dummies

I can easily find the information I'm looking for as the company I work for is embracing Agile and Scrum methods and techniques more and more!

Excellent information on Scrum and also valuabletips and ideas to apply this framework to any professional or personal field in life.

Added reference for comparing and understanding Scrum and all the processes.

Love this little book. Sharing this with my team members.

Everybody knows that I'm a Scrumbag.

I am familiar with an agile method of project management as a freelancer. I thought this was going to hep me with some ideas for continuing to organize my projects and get things done. I use Trello for my project management.However, I found the book confusing. It's sort of a very detailed lost of all the places where Scrum can be used, but leaves the reader asking, what IS it? After reading the book, I realize that what I thought was Scrum was really to Agile method. I used the project boards to move projects across to completion. After reading several chapters of this book, I realized I still didn't understand Scrum, so re-read the intro chapter. It didn't help.I think the practical how-to is missing. I understand all of the ways that Agile could be handy--in business and personal life. But unless I get specifics on how to use the method, then knowing how great it is doesn't help at all.Overall, it's not a book that I would pass along to someone else to help them understand the method. I learned more by searching the web for "what is scrum?"

I wish there was a way to give a two and a half star rating. That is because this book is not so bad as a two-star, but it’s definitely not up to a three-star rating either.Scrum is a project management technique that grew out of the software development world. While there is nothing wrong with it per se, this book does a very poor job of selling it. And that’s my biggest gripe about this book: it’s a marketing book that is attempting to sell the technique as the be-all and end-all technique that everyone in the world should use for any purpose. The problem with this approach is encapsulated in the old saw: “when all you have is a hammer, any problem looks like a nail”. In this book, the authors start out by showing how Scrum is used in the wild and wooly reaches of software development but then proceed to apply it to all kinds of things that it has no place in. How about using it in construction? Or dating? Or planning a wedding? Or getting an education? Some of these are so far out there that they actually made me laugh aloud. Let me illustrate with a construction example: Say you are building an office building, which is supposed to be five stories tall, and you choose to follow scrum. When you have the first three stories erected, your customer (stakeholder in Scrum-speak) comes in and says that since the commercial leasing market is going really well these days, he wants the highest-priority to become erecting a ten-story building in the same space. As the authors claim many times throughout this book: change is life, scrum is change! Moreover, Scrum allows you to pivot as your product hits market realities, right? However, there is still this small matter of the footings and other design details that assumed the weight of a five-story structure, which would all have to change. Since you have already built a bunch, do you now tear it all down? Of course not!Seven out of the twenty-three chapters in this book describe the technique and how it works. There is value in that part of the book. The other sixteen chapters are marketing fluff and selling the author’s consulting services and should never have made it to print.This is not to say that Scrum – as a technique – is a bad thing. In the software world, or other areas that deal with intangibles, there can be a lot of value in doing things using this technique. The appropriate view of Scrum should be as one of a set of tools that you have in your toolbox. If the situation is right for the use of Scrum, then you should use it. However, it cannot – and should not - be used in all situations to solve all problems and many times other tools fit much better.

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L'importanza di una guida, rispetto alla pura documentazione, è quella di essere interpretativa e di offrire esempi e considerazioni. Particolarmente apprezzabile è la parte introduttiva dove spiega in maniera essenziale in cosa consiste SCRUM, e come questo in realtà sia solo il nucleo di una attività molto più complessa che è il Project Management. Un nucleo che definisce una filosofia di approccio molto apprezzabile. Ma non da trascurare il resto.

Como prácticamente todos los libros de la serie "para dummies" es excelente! Muy recomendable sin importar tu nivel previo de. Conocimiento de Scrum

Easy to read book. Text book for a class.

I've been working in scrum teams for years but have never read up on the actual theory of it all. I found this book was a great way to cement all the practices into a framework. It was easy to read and I feel that it was extremely worthwhile to spend the 2 hours going through it.

well written, just like the series. appreciated.