Agile Software Development with Scrum (Series in Agile Software Development),   ISBN:9780130676344

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It is really the scrum bible. If you want to start with this process you should build the fundamentals.

Book is perfect for this.

I recommend this book.

Really good points:

Working environment overview.
Impediments list.
Management involvement in scrum.
Sprints signatures.
Lots of good techniques.

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This was the first book I ever read on scrum. Actually the first on any agile software development topic. I read this book after a peer in my organization started doing scrum with his teams. He gave a brief overview of how it worked and I was immediately interested in trying it out as an alternative to the waterfall project management we were currently using.

The book provided a great introduction. We took great pains to do Scrum by the book - in order to get to the place where we were good enough at Scrum that we could have informed opinions about what we would change.

This book - like many - do not address how to scale scrum to a larger organization. We figured that out on our own. It also doesn't really discuss engineering practices, this is more of a project management book. Without good engineering practices, any project management methodology will fail. But the basic ideas in this book are gold. You should read it, apply it and start reaping the benefits of iterative software development, i.e., quality, productivity, predictability, continuous improvement, morale improvement, etc.

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This book is essential reading for anyone starting out with agile software development using Scrum. As a management methodology, Scrum is relatively simple to implement but has truly transformational effects! I have implemented Scrum in many software development teams now, which I regularly blog about on the All About Agile blog. This book really does make a great introduction to the process of Scrum, and you will find tons more free information on Scrum and many other aspects of agile software development here: [...] I thoroughly recommend this book to all agile newbies :-)

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Easy and clear to read within a day.
This is a great guide to scrum for beginner.

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This is a gentle introduction to Scrum, written mainly for the people who manage programmers and software development projects. It doesn't so much teach how to implement Scrum, as it is a comforting explanation of why you should try it, and why it will work for you. Especially when everything else has failed. It also shows how to sell the methodology to the programmers who will be living with it, and to senior managers, business peers, and software customers.

Read this if you've heard of Scrum, and want to know more. Get more Scrum books, and get some training, before you actually implement it.