Scrum: A Pocket Guide: A Smart Travel Companion (Best Practice (Van Haren Publishing))

This book is a good introduction to Agile and Scrum. If you are coming from a traditional waterfall perspective, it could help you make a smooth transition.

Scrum - A Pocket Guide book really explained in detail and in broader context plenty of information about the basic of scrum - roles, principles, rules and Scrum on the next level. I couldn't be more happier as an experience Agile practitioner myself I have learned a great deal about Scrum on top of what I already knew. The book is very handy and is essential guideline for anyone working as part of a scrum team or coaching others in applying the framework for themselves.

A small book where every word is in right place . It is a great summary. Recommended to interested people who would like to read less and think more.

Goes far too deeply into areas that aren't important to the practitioner in the grand scheme of things. I don't necessarily care about the history of the word Scrum or Agile, or how bad waterfall methods are etc. Buried within this type of content is the applicable stuff, often not articulated as well as the aforementioned free guides (like the one from Scrum.org).I bought this because it was on the reading list for Product Owner on Scrum.org. I haven't taken the certification test, so I don't know if the fluff will be on the exam or not, so until I know that I can't really say if one should skip this if their intention is to pass the Product Owner certification exam. If you are just looking for a good Scrum guide, look elsewhere. I've heard great things about Essential Scrum.

Usually when we start our adventure with Scrum, we focus on what is the most visible and seemingly the easiest to change or introduce: meetings, artifacts, new roles. Very quickly we loose the essence of agility, understanding why we do it.I recommend this book to anyone that either begins his adventure with Scrum or just... hit the wall. I wish I had read it before. With this book you will understand extremely important foundations of Scrum and answers for all your "whys" based on empirical approach, inspect&adapt and essence of self-organization.

Great for understanding scrum guide. I had hesitation about the book because of the title of the book, I didn't want to get another scrum guide but better understand it without clutter of information.This is a good helper book for scrum guide and highly recommended. Now on to next agile book...

Long enough to give a brief understanding of agile and short enough that you can read it in an afternoon.

For me it was a best book for understanding not only scrum itself but what need to change and what will change when you transforming organization. So clever and so simple!

Ken Schwaber (Scrum co-creator) describes this book as "extraordinarily competent", which is a very appropriate description. Verheyen manages to cover Scrum comprehensively in just four chapters and really get to the heart of the why and what of the Scrum approach to product development. For folks new to Scrum, there is probably not enough detail about the specific rules of the Scrum framework, but in that respect it makes the perfect accompaniment to the Scrum Guide. This book focuses more on the underlying principles of using Scrum to achieve agility and as such offers a far deeper understanding of the subject, for the new and more experienced Scrum practitioner alike.I thought the observation of Scrum as the "gorilla of the Agile movement" was particularly helpful. This relates to Geoffrey Moore's Technology Adoption of Life Cycle. Verheyen observes that when, around 2007/8, the Agile moved from early adopters to more mainstream adoption, Scrum emerged as the market leader 'gorilla'. The book describes in intelligent detail, why Scrum achieved that position and how it is still holding its own in the fast changing world of software development.

Great book for content: it effectively describes and outlines the why which is behind Agile methodology and the Scrum framework. Unfortunately the size of the book makes it difficult to read and keep notes - too small. Anyway I recommend the book to everyone is looking for improvements for its Agile/Scrum knowledge and skills.

One of the best books out there if you want to learn about Scrum.Well written, concise and great for quick reference in future when you need it. It takes you through the history, theory and mechanics, but more than that explains the reasons why Scrum is so powerful, yet simple.A great way to learn more about the theory behind the Scrum framework and is clearly aligned with The Scrum Guide created and maintained by Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland @ http://www.scrumguides.org

Well written ensuring that readers can understand what is being said without being repetitive.All statements were followed by original explanation.Quite incredible how all the information on Scrum could be assimilated into a concise book such as this and that definitely helps those on a time-crunch.A relatively new concept like Scrum was made convincing and appealing.

Easy to understand, simple explanations to Scrum