Scrum: The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Learn Scrum Step by Step

by James Turner

Does your business rely on a software development framework? Is your current method failing to help you achieve your aims? Have you considered Scrum as an alternative?

Most business models need a software framework that can help them to be more efficient . In the past many such frameworks failed as they were conceived as stand-alone concepts that relied on individuals. But Scrum is different and relies on teamwork to achieve its goals.

Now in this book, The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to Learn Scrum Step by Step , you can discover what Scrum could do for your business, with chapters that focus

• Understanding the agile framework
• An overview of Scrum
• The 3 Main Concepts of Scrum
• The benefits
• Scrum processes
• Sprint cycle
• The 18 KEY RULES of Scrum
• Agile estimation techniques
• Tips for Scrum mastery
• Real-Life Stories of its Application
• Mistakes to Avoid.
• And more…

Written with beginners in mind, Scrum is a book that takes a potentially complex set of principles and lays them out in a way that is easy for almost anyone to understand.

And once you have mastered the ideas behind it, you can build a team that will take your business to the next level.
Get a copy of Scrum today and see where it will lead your organization!

166 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 22, 2019

Reviews

[Bob Wallner · Rating 3 out of 5]

Prior to 2016, I had been part of several project teams, most of which followed the traditional Gantt chart or waterfall method of managing a project. One of these teams included the implementation of an ERP system called SAP. For anyone doing an implementation, you know going from a homegrown system to SAP has MANY challenges. I was the project manager responsible for one piece, Production Control, and I found out first hand how difficult and inaccurate managing by time and Gantt was.

In 2016 I was hired as a Lean Engineer with the responsibility of managing the implementation of an MES software package called Camstar. I was expected to use my lean manufacturing knowledge to influence the speed and efficiency of how Camstar was implemented. This is when I became interested in Scrum. I read Jeff Sutherland’s book and was sent to a two-day scrum training. In my four months and with a team of only 3 full-time people including myself we went from theory to a minimal viable product and were well on the way to a fully implemented product. For personal reasons I left the company shortly after that, but I had experienced enough of the power of Scrum to know it would be part of my future arsenal.

Fast forward to 2019 and I was approached by my company to discuss whether or not Scrum and Agile techniques could be introduced into our software upgrade and into our new product development. I decided to pick up a few books to refresh myself on Scrum. The first I read was James Turner’s book Scrum: The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide on audible.

This book was a good summary of how I was taught Scrum. It provided the mechanics of Scrum. From kickoff to closure, this book provides an adequate summary of how to perform scrum activities. For me it was a good refresher; however, I felt that the book was very sterile. It didn’t provide any excitement for someone who was first learning about scrum. Scrum, like Lean or Six Sigma, requires a certain level of excitement about adventuring into a new way of doing things. If this was my first book or experience with Scrum I’m not sure I would have continued on.

It wasn’t just the narrator. Yes, he was very monotone, but I was able to speed his dialogue up to get through it. The writing itself was very, the only word I can come up with is, sterile. No excitement. Think of reading the dictionary or step by step instructions of how to assemble a model airplane.

This book is a pretty good refresher, but I would not make it the first book you read on Scrum.