“Scrum embraces uncertainty and creativity. It places a structure around the learning process, enabling teams to assess both what they’ve created and, just as important, how they created it.”
Drawing on varied and fascinating life experiences, Jeff Sutherland reveals the underpinnings of scrum and the agile methodology. "Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time" offers a variety of tools and methods to apply scrum outside of software development, demonstrating its applicability in almost every setting and vertical.
“[The Agile Manifesto] declared the following values: people over processes; products that actually work over documenting what that product is supposed to do; collaborating with customers over negotiating with them; and responding to change over following a plan.”
The author has a fascinating back story, serving as a reconnaissance pilot in Vietnam and working at high-profile companies. However, Sutherland does make some dangerously simplistic and binary observations, including the concept that scrum can "help teams of poor people to work together to leverage themselves out of poverty."
Despite some overpromising and weighty assumptions, the book painstakingly describes the framework and explains the nomenclature. Practitioners of scrum and agile will find a lot to guide in this work, which does a fine job of making nonstandard concepts accessible.
"Inspect and Adapt. Every little while, stop doing what you’re doing, review what you’ve done, and see if it’s still what you should be doing and if you can do it better."
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