Dear Lazyweb: A book about Scrum

Categories: Fri software , Nørderier , Tanker , Ubuntu

15. december, 2009

Dear Lazyweb

I need help in finding a good book about Scrum!

I have taken it upon myself to plan and prepare KickOffCamp for Lucid +1. KickOffCamp is a new initiative in the Danish LoCoTeam, where we will meet up IRL to discuss what we are going to do the next release cycle. This draws heavely on the Ubuntu Developer Summit for inspiration.

I have toyed with the idea for a long time, and I really got spurred on by reading Jono Bacon's excellent book, "The Art of Community". In it, he points to some ways of planning your projects, but I would like something more in-depth reading about the subject.

I have heard a lot of good thing about Scrum - mainly from an old episode of LugRadio, but also from some other sources. To me, it looks a lot like a good and relatively simple way of organising projects. Normally, when I want to go in depth with a subject, I buy a book, so that will also be my point of entry for Scrum.

Scrum has it roots in software development, and a lot of what we do in the LoCo is not software development. As such, I would like the book to have it's focus on project management in general.

I have found the following book, which may fit the bill: Agile Project Management with Scrum" by Ken Schwaber. As far as I can gather from the description, it goes through the core stuff rather quickly and then fills the rest with examples. This a approach appeals to me, and the examples are what makes Jono's book truly great.

So the questions are:

Can this book be recommended? Any other suggestions? Is it wrong for me to be intimidated by the fact that the book is published by Microsoft Press?

PS: This should not be seen as an attempt to pull a specific methodology down over the head of the LoCoTeam. I just need some inspiration for how to do it, as this is the first time we do KickOffCamp.

dansk english

Comments

  1. Mads Chr. Olesen skriver:

    Jeg kender ikke lige den bog du henviser til, men har haft http://www.pearsoned.co.uk/Bookshop/detail.asp?item=100000000037579 i undervisningsøjemed, og den var jeg ret glad for :-)

  2. No' skriver:

    I can absolutely recommend Ken Schwaber's book. I've read it and it's an must. Its main goal is not to describe Scrum (which could be described in a few paragraphs), but it takes a lot of (real world) use cases and brushes what's good, what's wrong, how to solve issues, etc.

    Another great pick is the "Scrum from the trenches" by Henrik Kniberg. Very well written and done.

    (btw: You are using the Django settings DEBUG=True - it's bad and harmful and there are a lot of 404 links on this weblog - switching from the Danish to the english version, etc).

  3. Martin Meredith skriver:

    I can definately reccomend that book, even if it is a little old, it's still relevant!

  4. shermann skriver:

    HI,

    I wrote something about scrum and opensource (more questions then answers)
    here: http://www.sourcecode.de/content/scrum-opensource-projects

    I found this about scrum and opensource a bit later:
    http://wiki.pentaho.com/display/OpenScrum/Home

    Hope it helps...

  5. kjoller skriver:

    Thank you for the recommendations, all. My current plan - which maybe starts after christmas:
    1. Order Schwaber's book
    2. Read shermann's links while waiting
    3. Read book

    No' - Fixed. Both the feed-url, the language switching and the DEBUG=True thing. This blog was made as a tutorial from the first edition of "Practical Django Projects", and is rather chaotic and not very Django 1.1-like. A rewrite would probably be in order :)

  6. kjoller skriver:

    Oh, and my early answer was not to stop further recommendations or suggestions.

  7. Rudiger Wolf skriver:

    Have you heard that there is a new kid on the block? "Kanban". This maybe more effective than SCRUM for some teams.

    Google it. See http://www.limitedwipsociety.org/ as a starter.

    See some interesting presentations and videos here http://miami2009.leanssc.org/

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