Paul Grenyer

The Roots of Scrum: How the Japanese Lean Experience Changed Global Software Development Jeff Sutherland Dr. Jeff Sutherland covers the history of Scrum from its inception thru his participation with Ken Schwaber in rolling out Scrum to industry, to its impact on Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Oracle, Siemans, Philips, GE, and thousands of other companies. He describes the relationship of Scrum to experience at Bell Labs, MIT, iRobot, and the Grameen Bank, his communications with Kent Beck who used Scrum experience to help create XP, and how the Agile Manifesto accelerated Scrum adoption. Most important, he concludes by describing how team spirit is at the root of product innovation and hyperproductive teams and how that spirit can transform organizations. Just as last year with Robert Martin's key note, the 2010 ACCU conference got off to a storming start with this key note from Jeff Sutherland, that I wish I could have got my entire team, the managers and to some extent the board to s...

by Ken Schwaber ISBN: 978-0735619937 I bought this book when it looked like I was going to be doing the Certified Scrum Master course at the ACCU Conference , as it's required reading. I was hoping for a detailed explanation of the Scrum process, but this book actually contains a number of case studies which describe how Scrum has been implemented in different places, what worked well and what didn't. Even thought the book didn't contain what I expected, I found it quite interesting and informative and it made me think about how our agile team could improve. It's quite a short book at only 153 pages and very easy to read. Consequently I ploughed through it in about a weeks intensive reading.