Agile Project Management with Scrum
by Ken Schwaber · first published 2004
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Apply the principles of Scrum to software project management with guidance from one of the leaders in the agile process movement. Case studies and project examples demonstrate Scrum concepts in practice and emphasize driving projects for maximum ROI. The rules and practices for Scrum—a simple process for managing complex projects—are few, straightforward, and easy to learn. But Scrum's simplicity itself—its lack of prescription—can be disarming, and new practitioners often find themselves reverting to old project management habits and tools and yielding lesser results. In this illuminating ser
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…Ideas That Drive Today's Computers" - John MacCormick "Domain Driven Design" - Eric Evans "Artificial Intelligence: The Basics" - Kevin Warwick ...and on the Project management / Executive side: "Agile Project Management with Scrum" - Ken Schwaber "Reality Check" - Guy Kawasaki "Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days" - Jessica Livingston
on “Ask HN: What good books have you read to learn more in tech?” ↗…Driven Development: By Example" by Kent Beck "Agile Software Development, Principles, Patterns, and Practices" by Robert C. Martin "Agile and Iterative Development: A Manager's Guide" by Craig Larman "Agile Project Management with Scrum" by Ken Schwaber "Agile Software Development Ecosystems" by Jim Highsmith Those are pretty "technology independent". Helpful to understand the idea. And the authors are respected and well known in the…
on “Ask YC: Good agile book?” ↗Having read ken schwaber's "agile Project management with scrum" something like 8 years ago and hearing him speak, and working with agile teams during my most junior development I couldn't fucking agree more. I loved scrum when I first started using it, and I was…
on “Why “Agile” and especially Scrum are terrible” ↗…faster. Nothing is perfect and you will still have unused features and bugs, that’s the nature of it. One of the books I read had research backed findings based on analysis of projects, I think it was Agile Project Management with Scrum. Rework and other books by the Basecamp founders are good. It’s good to read up on a few different ways people have successfully done things to get perspective that not everything is “one size fits all.”…
on “Any good resources for learning Software Project Management?” ↗