The Scrum Primer

by Pete Deemer

Genres: Business

ebook

About the author

Pete Deemer, CEO of GoodAgile, is a well-known figure in the Agile community, and has spent the last 25+ years leading teams building products and services at global companies. Pete is the lead author of The Scrum Primer, one of the most widely read introductions to Agile development, as well as The Distributed Scrum Primer, a guide to multi-location Scrum. Pete is the 2017 Vice Chairman of the Scrum Alliance, which provides the globally-recognized Certified ScrumMaster certification.

Pete is an honors graduate of Harvard University, and has spent a number of years as adjunct faculty at University of California Berkeley, most recently in the Graduate School of Business, where he received the prestigious Club 6 teaching award. Pete is a visiting lecturer at the Institute of Systems Science at the National University of Singapore for the 2017-2018 academic year. Pete divides his time between India, Singapore, and Sri Lanka, and works with teams globally.

Pete has provided Scrum training and consulting to some of the largest companies in the world, including services companies like Infosys, Wipro, TCS, Cognizant and Mindtree, and product companies like Microsoft, SAP, Dell, GE, HP, EMC, Ericsson, CA, Fidelity, JP Morgan, Mercedes Benz, Phillips, Oracle, Siemens, Unilever, and Verizon. Pete was Vice President of Product Development for Yahoo!, where he led Yahoo's first adoption of Scrum, and he was the co-founder of GameSpot, which was acquired by CBS Interactive.

Reviews

[Nikhil · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very short, but very effective tutorial on the essentials of Scrum. Makes a mystically-techie sounding subject easy to understand and apply without going into too many specifics and using excessive jargon. A handy glossary and additional resources for further study are provided if you really want to get into the details of this method.

[Javier · Rating 4 out of 5]

Short and direct to the point. A good introduction to Scrum framework.

[Shenyu · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is a lightweight yet clear introduction to Scrum. It covers most terminologies and concepts in Scrum without redundant description. I think this book is as great as The Scrum Guide.