Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Sprint Planning Meetings, Reviews, Retrospectives and Daily Scrums. Do a little search on Scrum and terms seem to topple on to each other. Yet, very few places seem to offer any advice to anyone wanting to embark on the Scrum journey for the first time in his or her life.
Henrik Kniberg's "Scrum and XP from the trenches - How We Do Scrum" is one such book that I am currently reading. You can download it from http://www.infoq.com/minibooks/scrum-xp-from-the-trenches. I am really thinking about getting a hard copy of it. The author has got an experience of going through multiple Scrum projects and experimenting with different techniques when it comes to important parts of Scrum. He has made sure that all that he has learnt is brought to the reader for his/her benefit. To give you an example of how painstaking his effort has been - he advises us not to forget to attach the post-it notes to the wall using real tape to prevent them from tumbling to the floor in a neat pile one day!
Apart from this, the book is replete with valuable practical tips - both DOs and DON'Ts - when it comes to using Scrum. It doesn't hurt that the language is very friendly - you cannot help but feel that you are talking to someone while having your mid-noon cuppa tea. And all this is wrapped up in easily digestible pieces - which won't put you to a deep sleep, take my word for it.
If I have to recommend one book to someone wanting to do their next project using Scrum, I would go for this one for sure.
Henrik Kniberg's "Scrum and XP from the trenches - How We Do Scrum" is one such book that I am currently reading. You can download it from http://www.infoq.com/minibooks/scrum-xp-from-the-trenches. I am really thinking about getting a hard copy of it. The author has got an experience of going through multiple Scrum projects and experimenting with different techniques when it comes to important parts of Scrum. He has made sure that all that he has learnt is brought to the reader for his/her benefit. To give you an example of how painstaking his effort has been - he advises us not to forget to attach the post-it notes to the wall using real tape to prevent them from tumbling to the floor in a neat pile one day!
Apart from this, the book is replete with valuable practical tips - both DOs and DON'Ts - when it comes to using Scrum. It doesn't hurt that the language is very friendly - you cannot help but feel that you are talking to someone while having your mid-noon cuppa tea. And all this is wrapped up in easily digestible pieces - which won't put you to a deep sleep, take my word for it.
If I have to recommend one book to someone wanting to do their next project using Scrum, I would go for this one for sure.
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