Scrum Book
by Jeff Sutherland, James O. Coplien · first published 2019
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…of human cognition. This helped with other books as well, such as the "Lean Start-up" and "Willpower: Why we do what we do." It even helped me further understand some concepts behind Jeff Sutherland's Scrum book. Highly recommended.
on “Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011)” ↗If you want to grok Scrum you should read James Coplien's A Scrum Book or his related work on patterns. Also, the bean counters have won. In most enterprise companies "Agile" is nothing more than top down micromanagement.
on “Ask HN: Do you think Agile/Scrum is beneficial for software delivery?” ↗If you want to fix these issues in the context of Scrum I suggest J. Coplien's "A Scrum Book". Or you can just read the patterns here: https://sites.google.com/a/scrumplop.org/published-patterns/... - The book is a slightly reworked reprint of the pattern work done by that group of people. It…
on “Why your daily stand-ups don't work and how to fix them” ↗…certification bodies, the misinformed, bloggers etc.) and there is a movement called the Scrum Pattens movement trying to fix the damage and to make it more explicit. If you want to do Scrum properly read “A Scrum Book”. Scrum is not a process it’s process design framework- you start with Scrum as a framework to then, through inspecting and adapting, add what works for that team (and no other team) and discard/replace…
on “Does scrum ruin great engineers or are you doing it wrong?” ↗Very few people care to read the official Scrum documentation. It is not a long read. Some posts on HN have more words than the Scrum Book. As a result of not reading the documentation, not many understand what Scrum is and what they're criticizing. I have been in that situation myself at some point. One day, I found myself so frustrated…
on “Does scrum ruin great engineers or are you doing it wrong?” ↗…wondering why you should accept this definition it's because I recently attended the Scrum Patterns course run by Jim Coplien (the guy who codified the definition of the Daily Scrum and is the co-author of "A Scrum Book" with Jeff Sutherland) and heard it directly from him.
on “Leave scrum to rugby, I like getting stuff done” ↗Agreed. I read Jeff Sutherland's Scrum book in about a week, but don't care for a paper certification. Most certificate companies (I'm looking at you CompTia and LPI) just care about selling their worthless paper certificates.
on “Spain Runs Out of Workers with Almost 5M Unemployed” ↗In the original Scrum book, Sutherland makes it a point that separating things in little chunks make everything more manageable. He also includes an example where Scrum is used in a school in the Netherlands; every homework and…
on “Cognitive load theory and its applications for learning” ↗…whole thing—and spend several months refining your usage and understanding why it works. Then customize. Choose one of the rough edges, make an educated guess about what happens, and repeat. From The Scrum Book by Jeff Sutherland et al.: > It’s important to understand the rules, and it’s even useful to follow them most of the time. But reading the rulebook of chess won’t make you a great chess player. After…
on “Confessions of a Software Developer: No More Self-Censorship” ↗…team and the particular tasks. Scrum is a fixed methodology with a rulebook. (A lot of time "Agile" gets used to mean "Scrum" but the two aren't the same, or even the same kind of thing, though the Scrum Book is an often not-unreasonable starting point for an agile organization.)
on “3 benefits of improving your burn-down charts” ↗