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Scrum

The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time

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 The revolutionary “Red Book” that helped a generation work smarter, better, and faster—now expanded and updated with new stories, new ideas, and new methods to radically improve the way you and your company deliver results

If you’ve ever been startled by how fast the world is changing, the Scrum framework is one of the reasons why. Productivity gains in workflow of as much as 1,200 percent have been recorded, and there’s no more lucid—or compelling—explainer of Scrum and its bright promise than Jeff Sutherland. The thorny problem that Sutherland began tackling back then boils down to this: People are spectacularly bad at doing things with agility and efficiency. Best-laid plans go up in smoke. Teams often work at cross-purposes to one another. And when the pressure rises, unhappiness soars.

Woven with insights from martial arts, judicial decision making, advanced aerial combat, robotics, and Sutherland’s experience as a West Point–educated fighter pilot, a biometrics expert, a medical researcher, an early innovator of ATM technology, and a C-level executive at eleven different technology companies, this book will take you to Scrum’s front lines, where Sutherland’s system has brought the FBI into the twenty-first century, helped support John Deere’s supply chain amid a global pandemic and supply chain shortage, reduced poverty in the Third World, and even planned weddings and accomplished weekend chores.

The way we work has changed dramatically since Sutherland first introduced Scrum a decade ago. This urgent update shares new insights and provides new tools to take advantage of the radical productivity that Scrum delivers. Sutherland will show you how to optimize working with artificial intelligence and share the latest cognitive science research on culture, psychological safety, diversity, and happiness, and how these factors drive performance, innovation, and overall organizational health.

This new edition contains a decade of lessons learned. Whether it’s ten years ago, now, or ten years into the future, the Scrum framework is guaranteed to help you deliver results. But the most important reason to read this book is that it may just help you achieve what others consider unachievable. Career Success Leadership Management Management & Leadership Project Management Time Management & Productivity
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Scrum is a great way of working & this book is a must read if you are a project manager or involved in development but one star off for saying "When *I* invented Scrum..." about 60 million times. It smacks of rewriting history & I'm sure others were involved.

Scrum is great but...

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Using historical and interesting stories that act as examples of how and where scrum works, as well as highlighting its component parts works surprisingly well- at least for me.

The wide variety of stories simply seek to reinforce how scrum can be used, how it works and where it's been proven to succeed.

In essence this takes scrum out of the software lab and exposes it to any one and everyone who wants a better way to get projects done.

Scrum: the narrative

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Great system which has inspired me to work better because i could relate to the way it kept momentum going in projects.

I really enjoyed this and it’s made me more productive

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Loved this book. Well researched theory with simple implementation instructions. Will be testing in my business immediately. Now want to learn more.

Brilliant theory I can't wait to test

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Having listened to/read a number of books of this nature, I usually purchase looking for small number of actionable improvement techniques for everyday situations. This book delivers this to a reasonable degree and is worthy of a listen.

The somewhat egotistical delivery did not bother me, however this has been a concern for some (going by other reviews)

Some good basic applicable techniques

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