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The Agile Software Development Series
The Scrumban [R]Evolution: Getting the Most Out of Agile, Scrum, and Lean Kanban
Scrumban is a powerful approach to supercharging team and organizational performance, by integrating the best elements of Scrum, Kanban, and many other models and frameworks. Now, there's a complete guide to Scrumban for every IT, software, and knowledge professional who wants to apply it. Whatever your role -- even if you're not a team leader -- you'll learn how to use Scrumban to help your organization thrive. Pioneering Scrumban consultants Ajay Reddy and Jack Speranza introduce the technical principles of Scrumban, offering a firm foundation for applying it in your environment. Next, they present a start-to-finish case study demonstrating Scrumban at work. You'll learn how to use Scrumban to drive consistent business performance improvements, year after year -- and find key takeaways for implementing it more effectively. Exceptionally readable and actionable, Scrumban empowers you to gain more influence by delivering better results.
384 pages, Paperback
First published June 29, 2015
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July 6, 2016
If you're looking for a book about Scrumban, go look somewhere else. This book is TERRIBLE in describing what Scrumban is. No, not terrible, ABYSMAL.
What this book succeeds in then? Initial ~30% is great as a demo of how to do NLP ;P Author endlessly shamelessly glorifies Scrumban - how superior it is, what it can achieve & so on, but ... he doesn't to anything to prove it - to demonstrate HOW does it do it. He just assumes that any thesis repeated 1000 times becomes automatically truth. I'm truly amazes I've managed to read through this pile of bullshit.
Remaining part (~40%, as the concluding pages are appendix, index & other bloat) is more valuable, but ... extremely chaotic - author "touches" everything that can have some link with Scrumban (starting with Cynefin, ending with modeling) - a lot of this material is quite nicely written (e.g. chapter about metrics is very clean & valuable), but the overall disorder remains very irritating.
To summarize: I can't really recommend it. It's a bad book. Seriously flawed beyond repair.
What this book succeeds in then? Initial ~30% is great as a demo of how to do NLP ;P Author endlessly shamelessly glorifies Scrumban - how superior it is, what it can achieve & so on, but ... he doesn't to anything to prove it - to demonstrate HOW does it do it. He just assumes that any thesis repeated 1000 times becomes automatically truth. I'm truly amazes I've managed to read through this pile of bullshit.
Remaining part (~40%, as the concluding pages are appendix, index & other bloat) is more valuable, but ... extremely chaotic - author "touches" everything that can have some link with Scrumban (starting with Cynefin, ending with modeling) - a lot of this material is quite nicely written (e.g. chapter about metrics is very clean & valuable), but the overall disorder remains very irritating.
To summarize: I can't really recommend it. It's a bad book. Seriously flawed beyond repair.
February 23, 2018
This is only good for playing bullshit bingo. I gave up after reaching chapter 6 without learning anything about Scrumban.
February 11, 2019
Measured way of success with hybrid of agile methods kanban and scrum
June 16, 2021
Jeg forstod altid hvad ScrumBan var. Meget mærkelig bog.
Nævner en masse teorier og metoder, men det virker mest som show off.
Nævner en masse teorier og metoder, men det virker mest som show off.
March 25, 2016
Incredibly dull. It requires specialized knowledge into Scrum an already. The author uses large words to sound important.
He uses 'Unearthed' instead of discovered.
Here is a quote from page 4.
"Viewed from the opposite direction, the flow management capabilities that Scrumban enables may provide a useful catalyst for organizations pursuing prescribed levels of CMMI capability to achieve their desired outcomes."
This sentence can be simplified. It seems the author was a bit heavy on using his Thesaurus.
He uses 'Unearthed' instead of discovered.
Here is a quote from page 4.
"Viewed from the opposite direction, the flow management capabilities that Scrumban enables may provide a useful catalyst for organizations pursuing prescribed levels of CMMI capability to achieve their desired outcomes."
This sentence can be simplified. It seems the author was a bit heavy on using his Thesaurus.
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