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Agile Software Development with Scrum by Ken Schwaber and Mike Beedle ISBN: 0130676349 Prentice Hall, 2002
Includes contributions from Jeff Sutherland. Mike, Ken, and Jeff are three of the original signatories of the Agile Manifesto.
See Scrum Process
I was quite impressed by this book. I rank it on par with Extreme Programming Explained. In my view, what XP has done for software engineering, Scrum will do for software project management. After reading this book, and then Agile Software Development Ecosystems, I found a renewed understanding of the underpinnings of Agile Methodologies. I believe these three are the triple-crown of the agile books out there, and I've read a lot of them. The stuff that was missing or vague from my studies of XP have been answered by Scrum, and vice-versa. Interestingly, Mike Beedle promotes his own marriage of the two as 'XBreed'. Personally, I think XBreed is a bit weak in the XP area, but it is interesting nonetheless.
Ken Schwaber has now written a second book on the subject: Agile Project Management With Scrum (February 2004).
There is now yet another Ken Schwaber book closely related to the subject of the first two: The Enterprise And Scrum (June 2007)
There is an international edition of this book as well: ISBN: 0132074893. Which one would you recommend? --Aalbert Torsius.
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