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The Elements Of Scrum (2011)

by Chris Sims(Favorite Author)

4.15 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0982866917 (ISBN13: 9780982866917)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Dymaxicon

review 1: I figured I should bone up on the scrum philosophy after taking over the scrum master role for my team at work. This book was very highly rated on Amazon and available on the Kindle - a perfect impulse buy.Unfortunately, at least for me, it's very much an introduction. It's a well-written, fast, informative read - but it's obviously aimed at people with no real exposure to scrum. If you've been doing scrum for a few years, it will likely be mostly a review. That's not to say I didn't learn a few things, as I certainly did. But on the whole, it was pretty basic.
review 2: This book was much better than the last one I read about scrum. It was much more practical, explaining how to run story time, task estimations, daily standups, and so on. It was fairly sho... morert, but to the point. I feel like I understand scrum better after reading the book than I did before, and took away several idea to implement at work.That said, I have two complaints about the book. First, neither section 1 nor section 3 were particularly useful. Section 1 spent far too many pages trying to convince me how great scrum is. Given that I'm reading a book about scrum, I'm not sure I need convincing. Section 3 introduced a number of interesting practices (TDD, pair programming, etc.), but didn't give any of them enough space for more than cursory introduction. Secondly, the book was sloppily edited ("it's" instead of "its", "their" instead of "his or her", and some straight-out typos). less

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