Agile Project Management with Scrum (Microsoft Professional)

Apply the principles of Scrum, one of the most popular agile programming methods, to software project management?and focus your team on delivering real business value. Author Ken Schwaber, a leader in the agile process movement and a co-creator of Scrum, brings his vast expertise to helping you guide the product and software development process more effectively and efficiently. Help eliminate the ambiguity into which so many software projects are borne, where vision and planning documents are essentially thrown over the wall to developers. This high-level reference describes how to use Scrum to manage complex technology projects in detail, combining expert insights with examples and case studies based on Scrum. Emphasizing practice over theory, this book explores every aspect of using Scrum, focusing on driving projects for maximum return on investment. more

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2/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Aug-21-2009; Disappointing Read; I purchased the book hoping it would provide real content about the rules and practices of Scrum. Instead, the author appears intent upon using the book to drive business to his Scrum certification business. He touts platitudes about...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jul-12-2009; Adopting & Adapting with Scrum; Unfortunately just reading about Scrum won't result in a successful transformation of your company; Scrum is a methodology that you have to adopt, actively iterate on and adapt to your environment. For this reason, the format of Ken...; read full review | report as inappropriate

1/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jun-22-2009; Written for idiots?...; Process defined by "stories"?... Where is the "Scrum process" formally defined? I cannot find. I can find only stories about fictitious companies, level of disorder at these companies, and magical Silver Bullet named (but not defined)...; read full review | report as inappropriate

4/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Mar-30-2009; Great Book, although I needed more; This is a great book, and an easy read. It gives examples of problems faced by the company, and how they were resolved using scrum. Personally, I needed a little more than that. I needed more indepth explanation of scrum. In general,...; read full review | report as inappropriate

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jul-12-2009; Adopting & Adapting with Scrum; Unfortunately just reading about Scrum won't result in a successful transformation of your company; Scrum is a methodology that you have to adopt, actively iterate on and adapt to your environment. For this reason, the format of Ken...; read full review | report as inappropriate

3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jul-17-2008; It's a good overview of Agile, but feels a bit contrived; I generally like this book, and find it's content helpful. However, the examples chosen for the book focus on "broken" situations that seem to go beyond just project management and development methodology, and demonstrate that somehow...; read full review | report as inappropriate

2/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Aug-21-2009; Disappointing Read; I purchased the book hoping it would provide real content about the rules and practices of Scrum. Instead, the author appears intent upon using the book to drive business to his Scrum certification business. He touts platitudes about...; read full review | report as inappropriate