The Scrumban [R]Evolution: Getting the Most Out of Agile, Scrum, and Lean Kanban

The Agile Software Development Series

by Ajay Reddy

Create Thriving, High-Performing Teams and Organizations with Scrumban

Scrumban allows you to use Kanban as a catalyst for increasingly valuable changes to your existing software development processes, amplifying and expanding upon Scrum’s benefits. Now, there’s a definitive guide to Scrumban that explains what it is (and isn’t), how and why it works, and how to use it to improve both team and organizational performance.

Comprehensive, coherent, and practical, The Scrumban [R]Evolution will help you incrementally apply proven Lean/Agile principles to get what matters most: pragmatic, bottom-line results. Pioneering Scrumban coach Ajay Reddy clarifies Scrumban’s core concepts and principles, and illuminates their application through real-life examples. He takes you from the absolute basics through sustainable adoption, and from choosing metrics to advanced forecasting and adaptive management.

Whatever your role in the organization, this essential guide liberates you to tailor Kanban systems based on your unique challenges–and to solve delivery problems and improvement stagnation you haven’t been able to solve with Scrum alone.

Discover how Scrumban can help you reignite stalled Agile initiatives Clarify crucial relationships between purpose, values, and performance Quickly develop shared understanding in and across teams Use Scrumban to better manage Product Owner/Customer expectations Improve the rollout of Scrum in any team using Scrumban Use Scrumban and let real improvements spread with least resistance Use the right metrics to gain insight, track progress, and improve forecasting Take advantage of Scrumban’s advanced capabilities as you gain experience Develop leaders to successfully guide your Agile initiatives Integrate modeling to reliably refine your forecasting and decision-making

Genres: Programming, Management, Nonfiction, Computer Science

650 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 29, 2015

Reviews

[Sebastian Gebski · Rating 2 out of 5]

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.

[Oleg Sych · Rating 1 out of 5]

This is only good for playing bullshit bingo. I gave up after reaching chapter 6 without learning anything about Scrumban.

[Ozgur Deniz · Rating 4 out of 5]

Measured way of success with hybrid of agile methods kanban and scrum

[Peter · Rating 1 out of 5]

Jeg forstod altid hvad ScrumBan var. Meget mærkelig bog.
Nævner en masse teorier og metoder, men det virker mest som show off.

[Brett · Rating 1 out of 5]

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.