Scrum

The art of doing twice the work in half the time

By: Jeff Sutherland

Narrated by: JJ Sutherland

Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins

Publisher's summary

The definitive account of the Scrum methodology from its cocreator and the CEO of Scrum, Inc., Jeff Sutherland.

Scrum is the revolutionary approach to project management and team building that has helped to transform everything from software companies to the US military to health care in major American hospitals. In this major new book, its originator, Jeff Sutherland, explains precisely and step by step how it operates - and how it can be made to work for anyone, anywhere.

Take the FBI's attempt to digitize its records, for example. As with so many software projects, the first attempt failed, having taken four years and cost over $400 million. Then the FBI turned to Scrum and, just over a year later, unveiled a functioning system that cost less than a tenth of the first project and employed a tenth of the staff.

And it's not just grand projects that Scrum can help with. Every organisation, whatever its size, constantly has to come to grips with delivering a product or service on time and on budget. Scrum shows you how. It explains how to define precisely what it is that you are seeking to achieve, how to set up the team to achieve it, and how to monitor progress until the project is successfully completed.

Filled with practical examples drawn from all types of organisations, it will make you rethink the fundamentals of successful management - and show you how to get things done however everyday or ambitious, however small or large your organisation.

©2016 Jeff Sutherland (P)2016 Penguin Random House UK

Life changing!

This opened my eyes! Really an amazing book to help with productivity, project management and business management. Definitely a recommendation.

Must read if interested in Agile/Scrum

A must read for anyone interested in working with Agile/Scrum methodologies. Highly recommended to anyone wanting to improve their jobs, their lives, and even their environments, as this book demonstrates that Scrum is not only applicable to business, but it can be applied for any aspect of life. Narration is great, especially because it's read by the author's son who happens to be a journalist and quite experienced in implementing Scrum himself.

Mandaroty for project managers

If you want to launch a product doesn't matter in what area. You must read this book!

Can't wait to experience SCRUM

This is a book about Why SCRUM. It tells you how it came to be, why the roles of team member, Product Owner and Scrum Master are defined as they are.
You will hear a lot of real stories on the use of this framework. I can't wait to be trained on SCRUM.

Exceptional

This book is most definitely worth the time. It can give you visible insight into the why and how of Scrum.

Very good

In contrary to how some have said that this is just a me, me me story and does not tell you how.

This book actually takes you through every single step of scrum, starting with the why the step came to be, and then explaining how a solution was implement. Often, complete with performance statistics.

Easy to listen to. Will be listening again.

Super book about super approach to get things done

I heard do much about scrum over the years but never found time to actually get what it is really. I enjoyed listening to this book and I was surprised that scrum promote many things I live and have been using already... now I will have more holistic approach to project management and team work and achieve much more in less time goes sure!

Gives you the why behind Scrum

The why is a very important foundation for implementing Scrum. I appreciated getting this from this book. A deep understanding of this will help you persevere when implementing Scrum in your organization.

Make teamwork simple

A good audio book who go trough the cycle of Scrum in a funny and understandably way.

why scrum

very well written book for the adoption of scrum. great book for all !! nice