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Agile Software Development with SCRUM | 
 enlarge | Authors: Ken Schwaber, Mike Beedle
Publisher: Pearson Education
Category: Book
List Price: £30.99
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 27143
Media: Paperback
Edition: International Ed
Pages: 158
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 0.6
ISBN: 0132074893
EAN: 9780132074896
ASIN: 0132074893
Publication Date: April 24, 2008
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 Good message but poor value January 17, 2007
Peter Ward (Middlesex, United Kingdom)
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
I'm disappointed with this book. I hoped to find much more depth about Scrum than can be gleaned from the Web. What it has to say, it says well, and the general point (that Scrum is better) is competently argued and substantiated. The reasons I can only give three stars are: firstly, the quality of graphics is appalling (could be bettered by a six year old with a Mac Plus); secondly, the price: this book would be fine for [...].
 Ideas that work with new terminology September 19, 2003
G. A. Williams (Essex, UK)
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
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.
A paradigm shift in software development December 20, 2002
22 out of 22 found this review helpful
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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