Scrum For Managers: Management Secrets To Building Agile & Results-Driven Organizations

by Rini Van Solingen, Rob van Lanen

How to help stakeholders understand the benefits of Scrum? You don’t need to take a Scrum Certified training (with a cost in the thousands of dollars) to learn to sell Scrum to your manager and your organization. Scrum for Managers will get you started now, and will keep you going tomorrow This book will give you the understanding and the arguments you need to help your manager, or your team to adopt Scrum. The book covers such key topics as The content in this book represents many years of experience, and tackles the questions you will have, and the questions you will be asked when introducing Scrum in your organization. Reading this book will save you countless days, weeks and months in implementation. Most importantly it will reduce your stress and guide you in your adoption of Scrum – no matter the size of your organization. But my organization has so many questions… If you are a manager adopting Scrum, this book will help you tackle the right questions based on Rini’s and Rob’s long hands-on experience. The book covers the top 50 questions that get asked over and over again in Scrum adoptions around the world. If you work with managers that are adopting Scrum in their organization this book will give you a very easy way to communicate with them, because this book is written from the manager’s perspective, and tackles their biggest questions and objections to adopt Scrum.

212 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2013

Reviews

[Dominique Heuff · Rating 3 out of 5]

Leest prettig in korte hoofdstukken met een samenvatting van belangrijke punten aan het einde. Natuurlijk wel je standaard hosannaverhaal over de methode. Belangrijkste takeaway is altijd focus aanbrengen op datgene wat het meeste waarde oplevert en continu kwaliteit leveren.

Quotes die me bijbleven:
“Mensen veranderen hun gedrag alleen als ze pijn kunnen vermijden of plezier kunnen verhogen.”
“Weerstand om niet in een team te willen zitten, is vaak weerstand tegen transparantie of angst dat transparantie tegen hen wordt gebruikt.”

[Angelo · Rating 4 out of 5]

Short (took me little over two hours), to-the-point and actionable: if you need to educate someone, or are in a managing position trying to make sense of this Scrum-business, this is the book to get!

Yet, I have the same gripe I had with De kracht van Scrum: it's in Dutch. I'm sure this will be fixed soon.

[Tanita · Rating 1 out of 5]

Niet dit boek maar “Agile werken in 60 minuten” van zelfde auteurs.