Great ScrumMaster, The: #ScrumMasterWay (Addison-Wesley Signature Series

The Addison-Wesley Signature Series

by Zuzana Šochová

<!--[if gte mso 9]> <![endif]--> The Fast, Focused, Practical Guide to Excellence with Scrum
The Great #ScrumMasterWay is your complete guide to becoming an exceptionally effective ScrumMaster and using Scrum to dramatically improve team and organizational performance. Easy to digest and highly visual, you can read it in a weekend…and use it for an entire career. Drawing on 15 years of pioneering experience implementing Agile and Scrum and helping others do so, Zuzana Šochová guides you step by step through all key facets of success as a ScrumMaster in any context. Šochová reviews the ScrumMaster’s responsibilities, introduces her powerful State of Mind model and #ScrumMasterWay approach, and teaches crucial metaskills that every ScrumMaster needs. Learn how to build more effective teams, manage change in Agile environments, and take fulladvantage of the immensely powerful ScrumMaster toolbox. Throughout, Šochová illuminates each concept with practical, proven examples that show how to move from idea to successful execution. Whether you’re a long-time Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) or participating in your first Scrum project, this guide will help you leverage world-class insight in all you do and get the outstanding results you’re looking for. Register your product at for convenient access to downloads, updates, and corrections as they become available <!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE <![endif]--> <!--[if gte mso 9]> <![endif]--> <!--[if gte mso 10]> <![endif]-->

Genres: Nonfiction, Business, Management, Leadership, Technology, Software

176 pages, Paperback

Published December 30, 2016

Reviews

[Craig Mccracken · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fairly simplistic, not enough depth

[Shiva Pande · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is a great consolidation of scrum master tools and techniques and extremely useful for people starting out in this role.

[Danielle Baranowski · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was the first book I’ve read in the Addison-Wesley signature series that didn’t knock it out of the park for me. It wasn’t bad by any means, but IMO there are better Scrum and Agile Coaching books out there.

[Olivier Grange-Labat · Rating 3 out of 5]

A little book that respects your time as a reader (something so rare that it is in itself worth mentioning) and introduces to you several useful models when working with teams.

You’ll probably learn at least one thing or two and will want to dig deeper, which is nice.

I would have really enjoyed several first-hand practical exemples from Zuzana’s rich experience. The last chapter was also awkward, looking very much like an advertisement for her workshops and trainings.

[Stef · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great book: easy to read & nice pictures: Zusana shares quite some real-life cases and how you can deal with it. This book does not explain you the Scrum Framework, there are many other books for that, but links Scrum Master role with Management 3.0, Co-active coaching, .... For the ones who still believe that being a Scrum Master is nothing more than setting up Scrum meetings, read this book.

[Nathalie Karasek · Rating 5 out of 5]

What a useful and nice little book full of inspiration and examples! #ScrumMasterWay #ZuzanaSochova

[Anirudh Mannattil · Rating 3 out of 5]

A fairly engaging and quick read. Not enough depth and the examples are quite general; loved the stick illustrations though.

Comes off as "fluff" more often than not, unfortunately, and I hope that The Professional Scrum Master Guide: The unofficial guide to Scrum with real-world projects by Fred Heath will be more informative, and cover topics in greater detail.

[Liena Tīdena · Rating 4 out of 5]

• Must-read for all Scrum Masters, especially non-experienced ones, and recommended for Scrum skeptics.
• Prerequisites – reader should be familiar with Agile and Scrum concepts because the book doesn`t explain the Scrum Framework and many terms.
• The book really respects your time and you can read it in one weekend.
• It is fairly simplistic and general but that`s why it encourages to dig deeper. When I started to go through references and author`s youtube videos where she speaks at the conferences, I really gained a lot of useful information and understood some concepts better.

[Antoine Drouhin · Rating 3 out of 5]

The great Scrummaster is an easy read. It won't teach you what scrum or agile is but is a great help for understanding the nuances and practicalities of the scrum master role.
There are a lot of examples and situations which help a lot in reusing the presented concepts.
The second half of the book on System Thinking and working at the company level vs the team level can be super interesting if you are not already familiar with these ideas.

I would recommend it to a beginner ScrumMaster as a way to get on the right track quickly.

[Mark Fay · Rating 2 out of 5]

It’s OKAY...

Amazon USA has this at nearly stars, 17 ratings. Amazon UK had it at 3 stars. I think it’s a lot closer to the 3 than the 5.

Pros: it’s short and a nice refresher, and has some nice introduction to further concepts (eg change management).

Cons: maybe this book wasn’t for me as a seasoned scrum master, but I just felt I didn’t gain enough out of it for it to be valuable.

[Zach · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was an easy read. I read it in an afternoon for some research at work. This is a very helpful look at the ScrumMaster role, and the needs of an effective SM on a team and in an organization. There is also a lot of resources for anyone looking at adding Scrum to their work environment all the way up to organizations looking to scale.

[Nicolas Leroy · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book describes a model for great scrummasters. It contains a lot of common sense, and in the end it adds an enormous amount of extra theories, practices, ideas and tools to explore and learn. This book is a beginning for your scrum master path. Let the learning start to grow into a great scrum master.

[Francisco · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very good conplementary book for scrum master

This is one of the best pocket book that I have read to complement the scrum guide to scrum master. It's a book that every scrum master should read becouse it explain in a practical way his role helps new scrum master and everyone tl understand his dutties and responsabilities in one organization

[Alexander Tarlinder · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not my cup of tea. I don't believe in the generic scrum master role advocated throughout the first part of the book, while the second half felt a bit rushed and superficial. As always, I did pick up some nuggets here and there though. By the way, by "generic", I mean scrum masters who run multiple teams and who don't know very much about software development.

[Łukasz Słonina · Rating 3 out of 5]

Quick read, rather for people starting journey as Scrum Masters. Very nice graphics. I expected to read more about hands on Scrum Master experience, how to deal with particular tasks not learn theory. In general nothing special for Scrum Masters, can be applied to any leader role.

[Cleber Da cunha · Rating 5 out of 5]

Practical and very nice to read

I recommend this book to anyone who wants to embrace agile, not only for Scrum Masters. I like the way is direct and simple to understand, therefore easy to implement.

[Jenny Lyn · Rating 3 out of 5]

Most people have said it too, this book was good but not great. Good refresher, good coverage of elements needed for a Scrum Master, but one has to dig deeper into other books to get more depth and substance. More meant to introduce and/or refresh than to be a definitive guide.

[Ian Brown · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love the book. Easy to read, very practical, true field guide. It's a must for every Scrum Master and Agile enthusiast. Love drawings. I can recommend it.

[Roman Yali · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love the book - a lot of practical tips and information, no boring theory. True practical guidebook for Scrum Masters and all Agile and Scrum practitioners.

[André Gomes · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great advice for Scrum Masters!

[Luke Nhung · Rating 4 out of 5]

Must read for all scrummaster

[Jorge DeFlon]

Nice illustrations
Good references
Well written
Somewhat brief

[Tamp_kh · Rating 3 out of 5]

Простите, но это максимум манифест о том, какой хочет видеть всю экосистему автор. На большее книга не тянет.

[Ola · Rating 2 out of 5]

Collection of ideas without any concrete examples and suggestions how to implement them. I'm left with list of items to research, but nothing to actually implement in my work.

[Magda · Rating 3 out of 5]

Velice milý a pozitivní úvod do role ScrumMastera. Určitě se nejedná o vysvětlení Scrumu, předpokládá se už čtenářova znalost.

[Carlos · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nice introduction on a variety of topics, but all a bit superficial.

[Ingrida Mikalkėnė · Rating 4 out of 5]

Gero praktikos scrum master'iams. Kai kur pritrūko daugiau paaiškinimo ir gilumo. Bet šiaip, verta pamatyti

[Nikki Bramwell · Rating 3 out of 5]

Great help at navigating agile coaching for different team maturity levels.

[Chris · Rating 4 out of 5]

I think it's quite good, if you just want to get scrum masters perspective. Yes it's simple, but still informative. Loved that it introduced various tools and methods.