Leading Agile Teams

by Doug Rose

Leading Agile Teams is a practical and engaging guide to help your organization embrace a more agile mindset. Most organizations work in large groups when trying to find solutions for big problems. Agile teams are different. They get more done by having a small self-organized team focus on the highest priority items. Each big problem is broken down and solved by a small, stable group of dedicated professionals. This book will give you the knowledge and tools you need to create and sustain strong agile teams. It is written for the developers, project managers, product owners, and ScrumMasters, who do most of the legwork in getting agile up and running.

Genres: Business, Leadership, Management

210 pages, Paperback

First published October 15, 2015

Reviews

[Cori · Rating 2 out of 5]

What intrigued me: This book was available in our learning centers so my colleagues and I picked it as our first book club book.

What I liked: It is straight-forward, easy to read, and a good generic overview. Sometimes it is a nice reminder to go back to the basics. We got a lot of use out of measuring our teams progress against this baseline.

What I didn't like: It was too generic in places, and some of the analogies were labored.

Favorite quote: "Agility is a skill that can be improved, but not perfected. Your team will always be on their agile journey. There is no “we’re agile” pizza party or “agile complete” memo. There is no “finished agile” box you can check."

[Mary · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great book for agile newbies. I ordered this book as a complement to Doug Rose's LYNDA agile classes and found it quite helpful to draw correlations to my project and those that are used as examples in the book. Rose often brings in first-hand experiences (the guy worked on a lot of different projects!) which is helpful in knowing that you're not the only one with agile challenges. It's a great book to keep for reference when we get to the point of tracking our velocity and using burn down charts.

[Donn Lee · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good intro to agile. I had borrowed the book in the hope that it would give me some insight into agile for general management (it didn't). Still, was interesting and I learned quite a bit. Might have learned more if I was actually practicing it in my day-to-day.

[Nestor Jimenez · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great reference books with paradigms and tools surrounding agile teams. Excelent when you want to migrate your team to agile and show them more than frameworks and tools but the most important: what means being an agile professional.

[Raul Mercado · Rating 4 out of 5]

Para los que están en la onda Agile, este libro brinda un excelente complemento a la teoría estándar que se encuentra en las certificaciones. El autor brinda muchos ejemplos de su vida profesional, lo que enriquece los tópicos cubiertos.

[Ivan Kuznietsov · Rating 5 out of 5]

I once... read this book and it was useful.

I once... took an Agile course provided by good trainer Doug Rose. The training was nice but I decided to profound my knowledge and bought this book. And it was the right decision. This book contains so much useful topics! I believe I will come back to this book from time to time.

[Stacie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Easily digestible and not as dry as other PM books