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Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time Audible Audiobook – Unabridged
By the man who helped invent the red-hot management process known as "Scrum", Scrum unveils what is wrong with the way we currently do work, and how a simple set of principles, applied in exactly the right sequence, can accelerate productivity and quality as much as 1,200 percent.
Scrum (which gets its name from the formation in rugby in which the whole team locks its arms to gain control of the ball) is the reason that Amazon can launch a new feature on its website every day. It's why the Red River Army Depot in Texas was able to roll out armored Humvees 39 times faster than before. It's how the FBI finally created a massive terrorist-tracking database.
The reason for the rapid embrace of Scrum across so many disciplines is simple: organizations that implement Scrum typically double productivity and quality—and sometimes the increase can be as much as 12-fold. But the promise of Scrum as a project management tool extends far beyond business. Much as Atul Gawande did in The Checklist Manifesto, Sutherland shows how this unique approach to problem solving and team optimization has nearly universal application.
At bottom, Scrum is about coming together with your team, looking at what you're doing, and course correcting. It may be the key to solving some of this era's most intractable problems.
Please note: The author has intentionally omitted three consecutive pages of the 256-page print edition from this audiobook.
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Listening Length9 hours and 43 minutes
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Audible release dateSeptember 30, 2014
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LanguageEnglish
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Listening Length | 9 hours and 43 minutes |
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Author | Jeff Sutherland, J.J. Sutherland |
Narrator | J.J. Sutherland |
Whispersync for Voice | Ready |
Audible.com Release Date | September 30, 2014 |
Publisher | Random House Audio |
Program Type | Audiobook |
Version | Unabridged |
Language | English |
ASIN | B00NHZ6PPE |
Best Sellers Rank | #4,613 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #3 in Project Management (Audible Books & Originals) #7 in Business Project Management (Books) #68 in Business Management (Audible Books & Originals) |
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Sutherland writes in an engaging, straightforward manner. He loves stories and hates technical jargon, and the book is fun to read even when though I didn’t find every principle directly applicable to my situation. Speaking of application, no matter who you are, if you are in any kind of team leadership role—and I mean any kind—you will find value in this book. I highlighted pages like crazy, dreaming of ways I could implement the ideas.
The real value of Scrum is how quickly you could put Sutherland’s ideas into practice, and how quickly you would see real results. Also, the research and stories Sutherland provides to support his ideas are fascinating. Fascinating, but in many ways superfluous as the principles of Scrum are so common sense it’s ridiculous. Yeah, why don’t we work like this, I found myself thinking. Can an idea be so common sense and yet as counter-intuitive as Scrum seems to be? A frustrating, but intriguing paradox.
As I stated above, if you lead a team, in any capacity, that is trying to accomplish a goal in as little time as possible, Scrum can help you. It’s worth a read.
Please Note: This book was gifted as a part of the Blogging for Books Reviewers Program in exchange for my unbiased review of this work. This has in no way influenced my opinion or review of this work.
Though his will and magnificence alone, he buried General MacArthur, shouting, "There can be only one!"
His son fixed NPR, taking it from a middling lemonade-stand outfit to the national, public, and radio organ it is today. His son fixed it using Scrum (the only child Jeff truly cares for) and according to the transitive property of progeny accomplishment, Jeff actually fixed it.
Jeff actually revamped how the New York Times, Washington Post, and Tiger Beat produce their content, and without him, we'd be getting all of our news from Twitter and Facebook posts oh wait-
When Jeff thinks about how great he is, a single tear wells in his eye. Much like the phoenix's, Jeff's tears are known for their curative and life-restoring abilities.
He has stared into the face of God and said, "had you used Scrum to design these animals, we wouldn't have mosquitos. None of the stakeholders want them. Change or die."
Jeff is also partnered with OpenView Venture Partners. I know this because he mentions it as often as possible. Did you get that? "OpenView Venture Partners", where Imagination Meets Life (tm). Is this book basically an advertisement for OpenView Venture Partners?
Whoa, did someone say OpenView Venture Partners?
Long story short, if you can look past the auto-fellatio, this book offers a good introduction to the Agile framework, its history, and many interesting examples of its use across industries.
But I honestly feel like I need to go read Donald Trump and Kanye's autobiographies to remember what (relative) humility sounds like.
There were so many take aways in this book that I absolutely loved. I should probably go back through the book before writing this, but historically, if I do not write now, it won’t get done.
By far, my favorite chapter was chapter 3 Teaming. On so many levels, this chapter hit so many points that I really believe.
Overall, in reading this book, it made me reflect on the organizations where I have worked - at our best, we had similar “business practices” - transparency, KNOWN priorities, a cadence to re-address work that needed to be done, etc. This book provides a framework to systemized this, or not leave it to chance.
I do intend to go back through the book and draft my notes to operationalize the concepts. I believe this book could be a GAME-CHANGER for any organizations.
**Almost forgot, I really loved chapter 9 and the stories of how teachers in Denmark are using Scrum as a teach tool - or said differently, a co-creative / collaborative teaching environment where EVERYONE is involved in the Teaching.
Whoever is doing the most talking, is also doing the most learning.
I recommend this book to leaders and practitioners at EVERY level.
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This book is a must read for any body in the IT Industry, part of scrum team and more importantly this book is for anybody(project managers) who wants to streamline processes, get more valuable work and reduce waste, risk.
This book gives the why behind the Scrum Framework, The how can be read in the "Official Scrum Guide".
The Author who is the founder of Scrum shares his own experience and journey on how he found issues in typical processes of companies and what could be made better both on a procedural level and also the emotional and psychological level of employees. All the learnings in his career led him to device Scrum and promote it. This books sums it up!
A good read to cement the Scrum concepts and take it to long term memory:
1. Accountabilities- Scrum Master, Product Owner, Developers)
2. Artefacts-Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Increment
3. Commitments- Product Goal, Sprint Goal, Definition of Done
4. Events-Sprint, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective
5. 3 Pillars of Empiricism- Transparency, Adaption and Inspection.
6. Scrum Values- CCFOR- Courage, Commitment, Focus, Openness and Respect