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Agile Software Development with SCRUM [Paperback]

Ken Schwaber (Author), Mike Beedle (Author)

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Paperback: 158 pages
Publisher: Prentice Hall; 1 edition (11 Oct 2001)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0130676349
ISBN-13: 978-0130676344
Product Dimensions: 15.2 x 1.2 x 22.9 cm

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"Most executives today are not happy with their organization's ability to deliver systems at reasonable cost and timeframes. Yet, if pressed, they will admit that they don't think their software developers are not competent. If it's not the engineers, then what is it that prevents fast development at reasonable cost? Scrum gives the answer to the question and the solution to the problem. — Alan Buffington, industry consultant, former Present, Fidelity Systems Company

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"Agile development methods are key to the future of flexible software systems. Scrum is one of the vanguards of the new way to buy and manage software development when business conditions are changing. This book distills both the theory and practice and is essential reading for anyone who needs to cope with software in a volatile world." - Martin Fowler, industry consultant and CTO, ThoughtWorks "Most executives today are not happy with their organization's ability to deliver systems at reasonable cost and timeframes. Yet, if pressed, they will admit that they don't think their software developers are not competent. If it's not the engineers, then what is it that prevents fast development at reasonable cost? Scrum gives the answer to the question and the solution to the problem. - Alan Buffington, industry consultant, former Present, Fidelity Systems Company

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A paradigm shift in software development 20 Dec 2002

By "xvf"

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5 stars to the writers, less of them to the publisher (you don't get to see graphics that bad these days). I read 'Extreme Programming Explained' almost two years ago, enjoyed it, and changed some of my views on the development process; I adopted some practices, but the XP Planning Game did not fit in our process. I the read 'Agile Software Development Ecosystems', enjoyed it, and learned that XP was not the only alternative to the conventional software development process. Now, Scrum, and its well thought simplicity, has shown me a proven and understandable way to manage software projects, and deepened the changes that the XP book stared on me.

The discussion on the "defined process control model" vs the "empirical process control model", in Chapter 2 and available on line, should be mandatory reading for any one involved with IT. Chapter 5 extends this discussion and is also outstanding.

Chapter 6 provides several models/views to explain Scrum; having several models of the same thing is something that you do very often when doing software design and deepens your understanding of the system; I liked the use of this technique in prose and the very interesting models covered.

Read it. You may not want to become a Scrum practitioner, but the book will probably change the way that you think about software development.

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Ideas that work with new terminology 19 Sep 2003

By G. A. Williams

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This book explains some very useful methods for delivering customer-focused solutions. Aside from a new set of terminology to get used to, the book cites the usefulness of: fast daily status meetings ("Scrums"), 'locked' 30-day iterations ("Sprints") that deliver working code at the end, small teams of 6-8 multi-skilled people, a prioritised book of work that is re-appraised every 30 days ("Backlog"), regular assessment of the work effort in the backlog rather than using a project plan, collective responsibility for delivery. I have seen people use these methods in successful projects within my company but they didn't know they were using Scrum, they were just doing things that they felt were right, have worked for them in the past and enabled them to focus on driving out a solution that would meet the real needs of the users.

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful

Disappointed 17 Aug 2009

By Paolo

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This book has been disappointing and boring. You can find the most interesting parts also in Ken Schwaber's speech at Google Tech Talks (Scrum Et Al, September 5, 2006). Throughout the book, the authors try to sell Scrum. I wanted to learn how to use this methodology, but they kept focusing just on how cool it is for the company.

Scrum is great (i suppose!) but this book is definitely NOT worth buying.

Note: I didn't consider in the vote the poor quality of the figures. The resolution sometimes is so low that you can't even read what is written on the diagrams.

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Disappointed - not what I expect for �30

This text is readable and appears well written. It is informative and a helpful introduction to the subject. Read more

Published 17 months ago by Jon

Perfect book to start learning about SCRUM

I really enjoyed this book. It book is perfect for people who don't know how SCRUM works, and want to learn more about it. Read more

Published 21 months ago by cybercloud

Well thought out and detailed

A well thought out reference to a subject that many believe they understand, but few seem to really 'get'. Read more

Published 24 months ago by R. J. Bransden

Probably still the best introduction to Agile and Scrum

This was one of the first books published on Agile software techniques, and is in some ways showing its age. Read more

Published on 1 Nov 2009 by Scott Marshall

Excellent starting point

We decided to look at Scrum after deciding agile was the way forward but failed to implement a decent framework around it. Read more

Published on 5 April 2009 by IT has the answer

Good message but poor value

I'm disappointed with this book. I hoped to find much more depth about Scrum than can be gleaned from the Web. Read more

Published on 17 Jan 2007 by Peter Ward

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