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Books on Scrum and Agile Project Management

Book Review: Leading Lean Software Development

February 12, 2024 0

What fascinates me the most in the Lean software development approach is the quality of the people that support it. Mary and Tom Poppendieck are not an exception to this rule. Their book “Leading Lean Software Development” achieves the seemingly contradictory goals of being very insightful but still easy and captivating to read.

Book Review: Lean Agile Software Development

December 6, 2023 0

The goal of the book “Lean-Agile Software Development – Achieving Enterprise Agility” by Alan Shalloway, Guy Beaver and James R. Trott, is to propose a vision of Agile software development that goes behind the current practices, more specifically Scrum, to integrate the principles of Lean development.

The Scrum Field Guide

October 30, 2023 0

Scrum offers minimal guidelines for Agile project management. In his book “The Scrum Field Guide”, Mitch Lacey provides Scrum practitioners with material that should help them improve their Scrum practices.

Management 3.0

October 2, 2023 0

In his foreword of the book “Management 3.0” by Jurgen Appelo, Robert C. Martin wrote that he hates management books, but “this book is smart”. I think that this book might be smart because Jurgen is smart.

Disciplined Agile Delivery

September 11, 2023 0

It is ironic to start reading a book about a new Agile approach and to find the following quote in it: “The explosion of “branded” agile methods has resulted in a jargon-filled confusion of siloed tribes made up of uncollaborative zealots. — Mark Kennaley, Author SDLC 3.0”

Coaching Agile Teams

August 14, 2023 0

Transmitting human experience through written material is not easy. As Rachel Davies did in “Agile Coaching“, Lyssa Adkins manages to do it brilliantly in this book that covers the same topic. Based on her own experience of “recovering command-and-control project manager”, she writes about all the circumstances where you can coach people, explaining both what you should and shouldn’t do.

Practices for Scaling Lean & Agile Development

June 5, 2023 0

I had already very much like the first book written by the same authors “Scaling Lean & Agile Development – Thinking and Organisational Tools for Large-Scale Scrum” published in 2009. The risk when you have high expectations is being disappointed. It wasn’t the case with “Practices for Scaling Lean & Agile Development”.

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