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  • Paperback: 176 pages
  • Publisher: MICROSOFT PRESS (13 Jun 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0735623376
  • ISBN-13: 978-0735623378
  • Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 18.4 x 1.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 77,627 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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It’s time to extend the benefits of Scrum—greater agility, higher-quality products, and lower costs—from individual teams to your entire enterprise. However, with Scrum’s lack of prescribed rules, the friction of change can be challenging as people struggle to break from old project management habits. In this book, agile-process revolution leader Ken Schwaber takes you through change management—for you organizational and interpersonal processes—explaining how to successfully adopt Scrum across your entire organization. A cofounder of Scrum, Ken draws from decades of experience, answering your questions through case studies of proven practices and processes. With them, you’ll learn how to adopt—and adapt—Scrum in the enterprise. And gain profound levels of transparency into your development processes. Discover how to: •Evaluate the benefits of adopting Scrum in any size organization •Initiate an enterprise transition project •Implement a single, prioritized Product Backlog •Organize effective Scrum teams using a top-down approach •Adapt and apply solutions for integrating engineering practices across multiple teams •Shorten release times by managing high-value increments •Refine your Scrum practices and help reduce the length of Sprints 

About the Author
Ken Schwaber is an experienced software developer, product
manager, and industry consultant. He is one of the leaders of the agile
process revolution, a signatory of the Agile Manifesto, founder and
director of the Agile Alliance, founder of the Scrum Alliance, and one of
the developers of the Scrum agile process. Over the last four years, he has
had a hand in training over 4,000 certified ScrumMasters (Scrum change
agents and project managers).

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, 5 Aug 2007
By S. Mallam (UK) - See all my reviews
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As a Certified ScrumMaster who has introduced Scrum to one development department (~100 staff) of a large software house I was really looking forward to this book. The most difficult aspect of our adoption of Scrum has been managing the complex dependencies between multiple teams working on a single software package - this is something that seems to be poorly understood and documented so I was very hopeful that this book would help.

Unfortunately I found it to be very short and very superficial. While these issues are covered there is little in the way of solid, practical, advice other than to "use the Scrum process" - a recurring theme of the book. With each new chapter I found myself thinking "Ah! NOW we're getting to it..." only to be disappointed.

Having read much about Scrum and having followed the process for some time, this book added nothing new for me. If you're looking for an introduction to Scrum, the author's own "Agile Software Development with SCRUM" is much better. For more general help on managing "agile" projects - including with large teams - you could do much worse than Mike Cohn's "Agile Estimating and Planning"

Very disappointing.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent resource for any large group adopting Scrum, 4 Jul 2007
By Michael Cohn "agile developer" (Lafayette, CO USA) - See all my reviews
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The two best things about this book are that it: (1) provides a framework for adopting Scrum across an enterprise, and (2) describes some techniques for surmounting some of the problems you will likely face as you try. Although the book is about the "enterprise and Scrum" most of the contents will be applicable to any group of teams transitioning to Scrum. A set of five teams working together on a single project would benefit from this book even if they are not the whole enterprise.

Too many agile books suffer from being targeted at a single team working on a deserted island--that is, a seven-person team with no issues outside their one team. This book does not suffer from that problem. Want to know how to organize work on a project that is partitioned by architectural layer? How to structure a product backlog for the entire organization? Or how to organize teams across a large project? Or what are the proper reporting relationships on a large Scrum project? This book provides sage advice on these enterprise adoption issues and more.

The book is chock-full of real-life anecdotes (in which only the name of the company and key players have been changed). Each anecdote illustrates how one real company dealt with a real problem. Their problem, their context, and their solution won't exactly be yours, but seeing how others have addressed challenges can be illuminating in thinking how to address yours.

This is probably not your best choice as a first book on Scrum. For that start with the author's other two books. This book picks up where they left off, providing a wealth of information for enterprises and even workgroups adopting Scrum. If you're already familiar with the basics of Scrum, and especially if you are starting to hit the hard points of adopting it and spreading it through your organization then this book is for you.
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