Author: Jorge Audy
Languages available: Portuguese
Personal Review: This book is a collection of small texts published originally at the author's official website. As expected, the language is informal and light; it's like you're talking with the author and he is sharing his knowledge with you. In this book you can learn a lot about what is working with Scrum in practice. The author has lots of years of experience in the agile world.
One of my favourite chapters is the very first one. It brings a discussion about who we are, what we do and why, and how we are perceived by others. In the agile world we work as a team: there is no way to be successfull if we don't know how to combine efforts with each other and work in equilibrium. He mentions that "being happy at work is to colaborate and contribute with the construction of a winner team, grow up, see your carrer launch by merits on the company that you are working and that pays your salary." (free translation). This full text is available (only in Portuguese) here.
In this same chapter, he brings up the Individualism versus Collectivism topic. The text (in Portuguese only) is available here. I absolutely agree with that:
"In an agile team, there are no space for superstars; if you want to be the center of attention or continuously put someone from the team at focus, good or bad, review your concepts. The goal is the balance of the collective, knowing that ideas and good initiatives are opened to everybody, the same way as participate and collaborate with continuous improvement" (free translation).
In the subsequent chapters, the author introducts the Scrum method and talk about its roles, ceremonies and artifacts, explaining each one in detail. Also the topics of vision, user stories, acceptance criteria and MVP (minimum viable product) are approached. A very nice gathering of tips can be found at Chapter 8: Continuos improvement. He presents the most important factors of Sprint zero, Planning, Daily, Board, Review and Retrospective. For example, the 4 tips about the Daily ceremony: (free translation)
1. Total focus on sprint delivery (risks and opportunities)
2. Assertivity (each one should prepare: what happened of good and bad)
3. What to say and not to? An abstract of the things that are relevant to the sprint
4. After 3 dailys with no decisions, risks, opportunity, look under the mat.
At last, the topic is knowledge management. For me, the most interesting part of this chapter are the tips for making good presentations. In short, I think that this book is worth reading and I'd recomend to Scrum learners, specially beginners in the agile world.
Price and where to buy:
1) Saraiva Bookstore: R$ 44,90
http://www.saraiva.com.br/scrum-360-um-guia-completo-e-pratico-de-agilidade-9247659.html
2) Cultura Bookstore: R$ 44,90
http://www.livrariacultura.com.br/p/scrum-360-um-guia-completo-e-pratico-de-98383591
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