Scrum for Hardware

by Paolo Sammicheli, Joe Justice (Foreword)

Discover the SCRUM for HARDWARE from Wikispeed to the first Scrum for Hardware Gathering, the Agile Product Charter and Scrum@Scale. The book is divided in two the first one made of stories which introduce the topic in an easy way, the second one include the description of the method, the underling values and principles, the engineering practices, case studies and many practical examples on how to adopt it in your company. In the Appendix you'll find the Scrum and Scrum@Scale guides and the description of Cynefin and PopcornFlow.Foreword by Joe Justice. English Edition, color printing. Includes a coupon to download the electronic version for free with additional material and all the future updates.«This book is the first significant publication on the topic, the most complete and authoritative. If the Agile transformation of the Software industry has any parallels outside software, and if the current client adoption rate is any indication, this book will be the reference for executives, shop floor managers, and team members globally.» Joe Justice, Creator of Scrum for Hardware and eXtreme Manufacturing

264 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 13, 2019

Reviews

[Jan Rieger · Rating 2 out of 5]

I liked the writing style. I also liked that the book lists further interesting resources. I also liked the enthusiasm of the author.
My expectations were that the book will cover more practical questions as of how to handle specifications and technical requirements vs. user stories? How to handle the dependency on external suppliers - how to organize it into sprints? Also how to brake down complex user stories into stories/tasks that are doable within one sprint? Or how to handle small development teams that cover both software and hardware and hence the developers can't cover multiple expertise? I guess these are standard problems in hardware and these topics were not covered.

[Tom K · Rating 1 out of 5]

The book starts out with a promising question: "What if hardware could be deployed as fast as software, through modern manufacturing techniques?"

Unfortunately, after that, it completely ignores that that isn't true in many cases. Yes, hardware can be manufactured faster than it was 50 years ago, and there are ways to iterate even faster. This book doesn't tell you how, and also doesn't tell you how to deal with the deployment time that still remains. (Aside from a few very obvious examples; use CAD simulations instead of crash tests...)

The entire first half of the book can be skipped, unless you're really interested in the personal story of the author through a detailed play-by-play telling of each conference he went to and meeting he had (including details about the weather and the dishes being eaten).

The second half of the book is where the content should be. A large part of it is gathered publications from other people, and a few case studies. None of these really give any solid handles on how to apply scrum to hardware.

[Geórgia Ploharski · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really liked the content and resources, not a doubt that there is a great deal of it, but the start was a bit cold for being too anecdotal for too long.