Agile Project Management with Scrum

Product Description

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.
Product Details

* Amazon Sales Rank: #4359 in Books
* Published on: 2004-03-10
* Original language: English
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Paperback
* 192 pages

Editorial Reviews

About the Author
Ken Schwaber is the co-creator of Scrum. He is one of the leaders of the agile process revolution, as a signatory of the Agile Manifesto and founder and director of the Agile Alliance. He has been in the software development industry for more than 30 years and teaches and speaks at many conferences, including OOPSLA & Software Development.
Customer Reviews

Great Book, although I needed more 4
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, this book is good to have.

Scrum defined4
If you want to learn Agile/Scrum, this is a good book to read. The topics are well covered. Who are the stakeholders? Who is chicken, who is pig are all answered. What is Sprint, backlog, velocity, burn down? Why does agile work where others fail in software development? Good examples and explanation of the subject. What is lacking is a cheat sheet of practice principles which one can deduce also, but it would be nice to have. Maybe next version. Enjoy reading it.

Outstanding book on Scrum and software project management5
This book gives a clear explanation of what Scrum is, by one of the people who invented it. This is all you'll need to learn the basics. Additionally, the author gives a number of chapters on real world examples of working in companies with Scrum. He explains various real world situations, the politics you have to deal with, and the gamut of problems project managers are faced with in trying to manage teams, bosses, bs and all the nonsense that happens at work. I really enjoyed this book because it is more than theoretical. It offers real world insights into dealing with real situations. Great book. Easy to read. I highly reccomend it.

Agile Project Management with Scrum

Product Description

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.
Product Details

* Amazon Sales Rank: #1897 in Books
* Published on: 2004-03-10
* Original language: English
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Paperback
* 192 pages

Editorial Reviews

About the Author
Ken Schwaber is the co-creator of Scrum. He is one of the leaders of the agile process revolution, as a signatory of the Agile Manifesto and founder and director of the Agile Alliance. He has been in the software development industry for more than 30 years and teaches and speaks at many conferences, including OOPSLA & Software Development.
Customer Reviews

Good stuff4
Let me just say, right off the bat, this is a wonderful book.

But how so, you ask.

Well, I have been involved in agile projects as tech lead, as project manager and as SME for just about a decade. I have also been practicing SCRUM for past few years. I find these methodologies (or techniques) quite helpful in "getting things done".

But.... despite my experience, I believe this book taught me a lot. Not in a sense that it taught me new ideas, but rather that it put structure on my existing knowledge base.

I found the book to be very well organized, maybe not as detailed as I would've liked, but sufficiently so. The subject matter has been dealt with properly and explained so that it is easy to understand. While it is definitely a good book to have for a novice, it is a good reference for those of us who have been in the field for a while.

A very good overview4
This book gave me a fast and easy intro to this tenique as a project manager

Good description of Scrum, from the master4
Nobody knows Scrum better than Ken Schwaber. This is a good read for launching new Scrum projects.