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Essential Scrum: A Practical Guide to the Most Popular Agile Process
By: Kenneth S. Rubin
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Pub. Date: July 26, 2012
Print ISBN-10: 0-13-704329-5
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-13-704329-3
Web ISBN-10: 0-321-70040-6
Web ISBN-13: 978-0-321-70040-7
Pages in Print Edition: 504
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[8 Ratings] Subscriber Reviews
Overview
A Practical Guide to the Most Popular Agile Process
The Single-Source, Comprehensive Guide to Scrum for All Team Members, Managers, and Executives
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. Leading Scrum coach and trainer Kenny Rubin illuminates the values, principles, and practices of Scrum, and describes flexible, proven approaches that can help you implement it far more effectively.
Whether you are new to Scrum or years into your use, this book will introduce, clarify, and deepen your Scrum knowledge at the team, product, and portfolio levels. 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.
Essential Scrum will provide every team member, manager, and executive with a common understanding of Scrum, a shared vocabulary they can use in applying it, and practical knowledge for deriving maximum value from it.
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"Essential Scrum: A Practical Guide to the Most " - by YacoltWA on 20-MAY-2013
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My company asked me to step into the role of Scrum Master leading and coaching this Agile methodology in a very large (over 30 people) core team. None of the team have every been in a Scrum methodology project so we are all learning as we go. No training has been provided so I am educating everyone. This has been a huge workload increase in attempting to determine what to point people to and what not -- no one person has the same experiance and skill level. Along with on-line videos, white papers and this book we made it through our 2 week Sprint. OK -- survived and learned a lot so the retrospective was rich with feedback. I go to this book all the time and looking or another book specific to the Scrum Master role so that I can do on the job training (ok -- reading a ton after normal work hours). I can summarize it as I am drinking from a fire hydrant hose which as been turned full on.
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"Senior Java Developer " - by Chris on 24-APR-2013
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Extra - tego szukalem.
Excellent - that's what I was looking for.
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"Essential Scrum - by Ken" - by Mehul on 15-MAR-2013
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Excellent book. His training approach very well compliments the book even after a period when you read the book. His training style, approach, etc. "sticks" to u and can apply to real world scenarios.
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"Best book ever about Scrum" - by kgish on 21-JAN-2013
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This is by far the best book about Scrum that I've ever read. It covers the complete spectrum and the creative use of the icon figures makes processes and roles clear and easy to understand.
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