Scrum
The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time
by Jeff Sutherland · first published 2014
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Why HN recommends it
A readable, non-technical guide to Scrum and building better processes, written for general readers as well as development teams. It is also available as an audiobook.
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Introduction to agile methodology written by co-developer Jeff Sutherland.
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…(Leander Kahney) Sprint (Jake Knapp) The lean startup (Eric Ries) The selfish Gene (Richard Dawkins) Titan (Ron Chernow) The inevitable (Kevin Kelly) The Innovators (Walter Isaacson) Scrum (Jeff Sutherland) !Most if not all have an audio-book version! If you are in a startup or plan to start one soon, reading/listening to books should become a routine. I try to get through at least one…
on “Ask HN: Books you wish you had read earlier?” ↗Not sure if this would come under tech-related, but an audio book that I've really enjoyed is Scrum by Jeff Sutherland, narrated by JJ Sutherland. http://www.amazon.com/Scrum/dp/B00NHZ6PPE The book is really interesting, and is not targeted towards the tech entirely which can be great since non-technical…
on “Ask HN: Favorite tech-related audiobook” ↗…business" entrepreneur book The E-Myth Revisited By Michael Gerber - 2nd time read. Got more out of it this time. The People's Tycoon (Ford) by Steven Watts - I love reading about businessmen from this age Scrum by JJ Sutherland Jeff Sutherland - good read for development teams
on “Ask HN: Books you read in 2015?” ↗…personally witnessed all of these symptoms of "agile" on teams I've been on, I was pleasantly surprised to discover when I read Jeff Sutherland's book that none of these problems have much to do with Scrum, which is more of a way of thinking about building (and tearing down) processes to optimize for the things only the team can identify, than a process itself. I think the reason these sorts of bad practices…
on “A brief list of what Scrum gets wrong” ↗…target audience/users to get feedback. If you want to go deeper and learn more about how to focus on your project priorities and productivity, I strongly recommend these books: https://www.amazon.com/Scrum-Doing-Twice-Work-Half/dp/038534... https://www.amazon.com/Sprint-Solve-Problems-Test-Ideas/dp/1... I wish you success on your journey!
on “Ask HN: Being afraid and not knowing how to start building a startup concept” ↗The Scrum framework and Agile manifesto have been designed and purposed to remedy the very conditions the author is complaining about. I suggest reading up on some of Jeff Sutherland's writings and books on how…
on “The Longflow Manifesto” ↗I don't think that's a valid inference. Quoting Wikipedia at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_(software_development) : > In the early 1990s, Ken Schwaber used what would become scrum at his company, Advanced Development Methods; while Jeff Sutherland, John Scumniotales and Jeff McKenna developed…
on “An imagined history of agile software development” ↗> What book(s) was most helpful in pinning down what scrum is and isn't? By definition, I think that would have to be the Scrum Guide [1]. "Scrum is defined completely in the Scrum Guide by Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland, the originators of Scrum." [1] https://www.scrum.org/Scrum-Guide
on “Manifesto for Half-Arsed Agile Software Development” ↗