I first came in contact with Scrum when I was working at Google and since then, I’ve been applying it to the startups I co-founded with good outcomes. Since I was searching for a job, I kept seeing “Scrum Master” come up over and over and I thought it was about time that I learned all the details of Scrum to be able to be a proper Scrum master. Well, in only a couple of ways I finished the book and discovered I was already a proper Scrum master, having learned all the details about it from my time at Google and blog posts.
About the book itself, it’s short and entertaining with enough story telling to keep you engaged even if you only have a passing interest in Scrum. The system is rather simple, with only a few moving pieces and I’m glad of that. Simple systems tend to work better. The testimonials of how much productive a team is with Scrum feel exaggerated completely out of proportion, but then again, some companies are so terrible at producing anything at all, being the cradle of dysfunction, that is no surprise their productivity can be doubled or quadrupled.
★★★★☆
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