In the case of Kenny’s book, I very much believe the answer is ‘yes.’ Getting the benefit of different, experienced perspectives on commonly encountered and needed material is valuable. Reading this book will help you get back to the basics and focus on what’s important.” –Joe Balistrieri, Process Development Manager, Rockwell Automation, “Corporate IT leadership, which has been slow to embrace agile methods, would benefit immensely from giving a copy of this book to all of their project and delivery managers. Reviewed in the United States on August 8, 2020. For example, the compare and contrasts between traditional Waterfall development, Scrum, and Kanban was very interesting. Essential Scrum is for anyone–new to or experienced with Scrum–who’s interested in the most important aspects of the process. Please try your request again later. Previous page of related Sponsored Products. Sometimes, I found the book to be very repetitive.

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Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free. Excellent book for new or established Scrum Teams, Reviewed in the United States on April 19, 2013. Essential Scrum helps us understand the big picture and guides how organization leaders can support and be involved with their Scrum teams for successful agile transformations.” –Sameer S. Bendre CSM, PMP, Senior Consultant, 3i Infotech Inc. “If you’re new to agile development or to Scrum, this book will give you a flying start. Starts you off and gets you well on your way, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 22, 2020. Essential Scrum provides an ideal overview of both the big picture and the details in an accessible style. I read this prior to sitting through a Certified Scrum Master course and a Certified Scrum Product Owner course (I took them back to back). As an IT Manager that is several years into an Agile transformation, I expected to get a small amount of value out of reading this book. It’s written just for them–in management-speak. Along with providing the basics and introduction to Scrum, this book addresses the questions of masses–what happens to project managers? Whether you’re new to agile or are looking to reach a greater maturity of continuous improvement in your organization, this is a definitive handbook for your toolbox.” –David Luzquiños, Head of Agile Enablement, Agile Coach, Betfair, “Kenny Rubin continues to provide clarity and insight into adopting agile in a pragmatic way. Looking for A Vision-to-Action Guide to Adopting Scrum? I'm sure I'll be referring to this book time and time again over the coming months. In Essential Scrum, Kenny Rubin provides us with a step-by-step guide to those complexities while retaining the essential simplicity. Coaching Agile Teams: A Companion for ScrumMasters, Agile Coaches, and Project Managers in Transition (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Cohn)), Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time, Succeeding with Agile: Software Development Using Scrum (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Cohn)), Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great (Pragmatic Programmers), Scrum Field Guide, The: Agile Advice for Your First Year and Beyond (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Cohn)), Great ScrumMaster, The: #ScrumMasterWay (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Cohn)).
To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Reviewed in the United States on August 25, 2018. Redemption links and eBooks cannot be resold. A good Scrum reference book for beginners, Reviewed in the United States on December 12, 2016. Drawing from Rubin’s experience helping hundreds of organizations succeed with Scrum, this book provides easy-to-digest descriptions enhanced by more than two hundred illustrations based on an entirely new visual icon language for describing Scrum’s roles, artifacts, and activities. It's well organized and covers topics from core concepts to release and portfolio planning. The reader gets a pragmatic look at Scrum and learns when and how to best apply Scrum to achieve business benefits.” –Yves Stalgies, PhD, Director IT, www.etracker.com, “Adoption of Scrum is most successful when everyone involved–even peripherally–with product development has a good understanding of the fundamentals. I have highly enjoyed reading Essential Scrum. Unable to add item to List. Kenny Rubin has created an indispensable resource for us. Kenny does an excellent job of distilling the key tenets of the Scrum framework into a simple format with compelling visuals. Drawing from Rubin’s experience helping hundreds of organizations succeed with Scrum, this book provides easy-to-digest descriptions enhanced by more than two hundred illustrations based on an entirely new visual icon language for describing Scrum’s roles, artifacts, and activities. The scrum Visual Icon Language is a great bonus, Reviewed in the United States on May 23, 2013. Kenny Rubin does so in a satisfying and nondogmatic way. Kenny Rubin has created an indispensable resource for us. Kenny Rubin provides a wealth of relevant case studies on what worked–or what didn’t–in a variety of organizations.
Please try again. Reviewed in the United States on June 25, 2017. Excellent book for new or established Scrum Teams, Reviewed in the United States on April 19, 2013. Honestly, I can't believe how good this book is. Kenneth S. Rubin provides Scrum and Agile training and coaching to help companies develop products more effectively and economically. This page works best with JavaScript. The Lean Product Playbook: How to Innovate with Minimum Viable Products and Rapid Customer Feedback, User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story, Build the Right Product, Product Roadmaps Relaunched: How to Set Direction while Embracing Uncertainty, Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days, Fast, FREE delivery, video streaming, music, and much more.

If you want to use Scrum to develop innovative products and services that delight your customers, Essential Scrum is the complete, single-source reference you’ve been searching for. Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. Reviewed in the United States on August 8, 2020. The reader gets a pragmatic look at Scrum and learns when and how to best apply Scrum to achieve business benefits.” –Yves Stalgies, PhD, Director IT, www.etracker.com, “Adoption of Scrum is most successful when everyone involved–even peripherally–with product development has a good understanding of the fundamentals. As others have said, excellent book, describes Scrum piece by piece, and shows you exactly where you are in the 'cycle', so you don't get information overload and give up on what is an interesting subject. This book pulls together a thorough set of agile management principles that really hit the mark and will no doubt guide you toward a more effective agile approach.” –Rowan Bunning, Founder, Scrum WithStyle, “There are lots of books on Scrum these days, but this book takes a new angle, a reality check for software practitioners.