This blog entry is for feedback on the Scrum: A Manager’s Guide, Sprint Execution Chapter. If you want to review the chapter, you can download it at: http://tinyurl.com/327n4hj. Please post your comments here for discussion!
Sprint Planning Chapter Feedback
This blog entry is for feedback on the Scrum: A Manager’s Guide, Sprint Planning Chapter. If you want to review the chapter, you can download it at: http://tinyurl.com/2c25ryq. Please post your comments here for discussion!
Revised Scrum Framework Art
I have created a minor update to the Scrum Framework art based on some excellent feedback. Please have a look and see what you think.
<<Picture has been removed, since it was outdated. The released version can be seen at www.innolution.com>>
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Scrum: A Manager’s Guide
As many of you know, for some time now I have been working on a new book entitled Scrum: A Manager’s Guide. In this first blog I just want to state the purpose of the book by borrowing text from the book’s introduction.
Though managers—project managers, development managers, functional-area managers, senior managers and executives—are the primary audience for this book, it is appropriate for anyone who wants to understand how the most popular agile-development approach is used to deliver innovative products and services. Most agile books take a developer-centric or techno-centric perspective. For those looking for a quick and complete introduction to Scrum, these tend to be lengthy and overly detailed.
This book fills the gap by providing a simple-to-read, appropriately detailed description of the Scrum framework coupled with the business case for Scrum. I make liberal use of illustrations to visually reinforce concepts. My goal is for a person to be able to digest this book on a four-to-five-hour airplane flight (the typical length of a flight across the United States).
This book can be used in many ways. For managers considering using Scrum, this book provides a foundation to understand why Scrum can be an effective approach for managing work. Managers will also gain a realization of the types of organizational change that will be necessary to successfully implement Scrum.
Practitioners who want to use Scrum but aren’t yet doing so can give this book to their managers to help sell them on “why Scrum?” Those looking for broader organizational commitment to Scrum can give this book to people not involved in the adoption and say, “Here, read this tonight or on your next plane flight and you’ll understand what we are doing and why.”
Teams that are not applying Scrum particularly well might also find this book helpful. Some organizations misunderstand Scrum’s adaptability; rather than integrate a different approach inside the Scrum framework, they make the mistake of materially altering one or more Scrum practices. Organizations that do this often find that Scrum isn’t enabling them to achieve their desired results and may proclaim Scrum doesn’t work. This book can help teams identify instances where this might be occurring and illustrates what Scrum should look like, helping them improve their use of Scrum.
Finally, even companies planning to apply an agile approach other than Scrum will find information that is relevant to their success.
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Scrum Framework Picture
For well over a year I have been playing around with different variations of the classic Scrum Framework picture. Working with an artist, we have created the image below. I am very interested in what others in the community think about the image. Is it accurate? Is it aesthetically pleasing? What suggestions would you have for improving it?
My goal when designing this picture was to create an icon language for Scrum that I could then use to compose the many different pictures in my book Scrum: A Manager’s Guide .
If you have reviewed chapters in the book through Oct 2010, you have only seen early concept art that I hacked together sans artist. Below is the new stuff that will be used to redo many of the book pictures. And, of course, I will be using the new art in my training materials later this year!
<<Picture has been removed, since it was outdated. The released version can be seen at www.innolution.com>>
So, please let me know your thoughts!
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