97 Things Every Scrum Practitioner Should Know: Collective Wisdom from the Experts

Scrum is easy to learn but difficult to master, and 97 Things is a series of essays that address some important ideas about how to do Scrum well that often get lost, thus making it hard for teams to succeed, much less master, Scrum. The authors all have deep experience in working on Scrum teams, and each essay will likely leave you with things to try, or at least thinking about.This book is for any Scrum practitioner, regardless of whether you are a Scrum Master, Product Owner, and Developer. While there are sections that focus on each role., teams work better when each member understands and supports the others on the team, so everyone will benefit from reading all of the items.A recurring theme in many of these essays is to step away from the mechanics (which are easy) focus on values that underly Scrum. Understand why you are using Scrum and building software and the details of how to implement Scrum well will follow. Some essays (including one of mine: Adopt Before You Adapt) advise focusing on building good team dynamics and a culture of successive improvement. Other essays focus on the importance of understanding what you are building (a Product Owner is an amorphous concept with out a clear definition of “product”), or what the best thing for a Scrum Master to do in a particular situation (and sometimes the answer is “nothing: giving the team an opportunity to learn to self-organize). Throughout you are reminded that the goal of a software project is to deliver value in the form of product and how the Scrum framework can help deliver the thing that is useful... and sometimes that is different that what you set out to do at the start.This book fills a niche between the Scrum Guide (concise and definitive, but lacking some level of detail), and the many books on Scrum (in depth, capturing good practice, and experienced based, but written from a single perspective). 97 Things is a grand tour through the topics that are sometimes neglected in discussions of Scrum, or which aren’t emphasized enough.If you are new to Scrum, and want some insights into how you help your journey go better, and even see how Scrum might work in non-software fields like education and policing, read this book for inspiration and guidance. If you are an established practitioner you can benefit from a reminder of how to avoid the pitfalls and challenges that Scrum Teams can face. This is a worthwhile read, and perhaps reference, for anyone who works on or with a Scrum Team.

This title is not intended to learn Scrum from the ground up, nor could it convince skeptics to adopt the agile way of work. Recommended for people already with Scrum experience, this book can help you look back at the heart of Scrum for inspiration to improve your methods. Taking one star off, though, as I was expecting more examples of lessons learned; most of the contributing authors tend to describe which aspects of the framework are most important to them with rather generalized explanations. There are thoughts rather than stories. Still, an inspiring and enjoyable read.

I just finished reading "97 Things Every Scrum Practitioner Should Know" by Gunther Verheyen. I am in awe of the effort that had to be required to secure, edit, and merge contributions from 68 different authors. Every single article provided lessons that can be applied. I cannot recommend it highly enough.

This is a masterpiece on Agility comprised of the greatest Scrum and Agile experts in the world, orchestrated by The Caretaker of Scrum himself, Mr. Gunther Verheyen.

This book is a compilation of the very best articles writing for the agile and scrum community. If you are agilist and scrum practitioner, you need to read this book.

If you're a Scrum practitioner, whether novice or experienced, you may have had a question floating around in your head (it's to be expected). Perhaps you've read blogs or other publications from Gunther or some of the others in this list of experienced practitioners and thought of posing your question to one of them.If you've gotten this far into the review, then I can comfortably say that Gunther's compiled insights and perspectives from a group (full disclosure, some of which I know personally) of active trainers and coaches, practitioners all, who have a broad and deep experience set. Consider if you were to have these sorts of conversations at conferences with one or multiple of these folks, how many conferences do you think you might have to attend?Here in one book, there are 97 conversations, which will help, in some cases challenge, but in all cases, give you something to think about. Which is the whole point.

Soy Professional Scrum Trainer y tuve la gran experiencia de asistir a un curso con Gunther Verheyen en 2015. Su libro "Scrum Pocket Guide" fue una gran ayuda para mejorar en mi conocimiento de Scrum y eliminar mitos que tenía en mente.Este libro es un complemento ideal para los que ya saben (y usan) Scrum. Es un catálogo de 97 artículos escritos por autores muy potentes y seleccionados por Gunther. Se agrupan en 10 partes (en inglés):1. Adoptar y evolucionar Scrum2. Productos que entregan valor3. Colaboración4. Equipos multifuncionales5. Los eventos no son reuniones6. La maestría es importante7. Las personas somos humanos8. Desarrollo dirigido por valor9. Diseño organizativo10. Scrum fuera de softwareRecomiendo este libro, no os arrepentiréis si lo léeis.Alex Ballarin / ITNOVE.com