A Scrum Book: The Spirit of the Game

As a Tech Lead, I purchased a copy for myself. After a couple days with this book, I ultimately purchased a copy for each of my team members. I believe this act alone speaks for itself. As a team, we're "learn[ing] everything we need to know to master and implement Scrum one step at a time -- the agile way." The amount of detail and research that went into this book is no less than mind-boggling. How anyone found the time to compile such a reference is beyond my comprehension. It is clear in my read of what we've gotten through so far that this book is the labor of love of many people, clarified in the Product Owner's Note at the beginning. What they've accomplished here in 10 years is itself a testament to the value that Scrum can bring to a team.

A Scrum Book: The Spirit of the Game is a valuable, well-organized resource whether for team members in the early days of their Scrum journey, for journeymen Scrum Masters looking to add techniques and approaches to their toolkit as they unlock more complex improvement efforts, or for master coaches looking for a well-structured body of knowledge into which to integrate and evolve their own patterns. Practices, tools, and principles (the what) are surfaced for us as we go about our daily work, and Sutherland, Coplien, et al. lay bare the philosophy, thinking, and reasoning (the why) to facilitate our learning.

A Scrum Book is a definitive collection of patterns about Scrum. You’ll learn how to improve you Scrum process, and along the way, perhaps be inspired to help you team work better. If you are new to Scrum, this book will point you at the right practices. If you are an experienced Scrum practitioner, this book will help you get out of any ruts you may have been in.While this book is an approachable introduction to Scrum, those new to the framework might get more value out of the book if you started with a briefer intro to the concepts and values like the Scrum guide. I've been working with scrum for a while and found that reading the book inspired me to work with my team to be better.

I had the great fortune of reading this excellent book before it was in the press. I thoroughly appreciated the idea of expressing not the mechanics of scrum but the spirit and the guiding principles. The rules of Scrum are easy to describe. Takes about 19 pages and just as with the surprisingly short rule book for soccer, they are easy to understand but hard to enact in a complex environment even for the most senior scrum practitioners. Many have in the past given up thinking "Scrum doesn't work for us". This is the guide they were missing, helping them to see how to change their behaviour and perception of work. It's a must-read for all that are already working with and those planning to work with scrum

I have a printed copy of this book since April 2018 (draft) and it is already worn!It's extremely informative and has something to offer for any Scrum pracitioner, beginning or experienced.The individual patterns are pragmatic and describe potential solutions in a specic context, and more importantly, the rationale behind it.It's so important to know WHY we do the things we do, so we can adjust it to our context if required.The pattern languages offer a lot of power in a systems thinking view and inspire/guide your adoption.This book also contains a lot of inspiration to get back to the fundamentals of Scrum, the way it was intended.

Scrum patterns are gold. If you practice Scrum, this is the book you will want to keep on your desk. It gives you 100+ patterns and each one could be the solution to your challenges. This enables you to do the True Scrum, the scrum of what Jeff Sutherland has. Highly recommended.

A Scrum Book is a magical well of wisdom and experience that empowers you to resolve everyday tensions and remove impediments from your daily workflows, so that your product vision can unfold towards the greatest value.

Great Book. I have found idea of scrum patterns very valuable, and try now to find way to get deeper understanding of their practical possibilities in my environment. It's ok to "suck little less" and have couple of practices from here and there, but I have idea that I could at some point be part of really good team and succeed with Scrum. Isn't it nice idea? A Scrum Book is great companion on journey to understand complexities of modern software development - or: to see that there's sufficiently simple rationale behind practices which help group of people to work successfully together. And no: we wouldn't have never managed as humankind on any complex tasks if we would have done it like many scrum teams currently seem to do (minimal amount of collaboration, allergy for specs, shallow documentation of decision, huge piles of code from talented individuals all tested on unit level).BTW: Don't let name of book fool you. This book is about organisational patterns of software development and content is possibly even more valuable to reader if book is read to add efficiency to Kanban usage.

I had high expectation from a book written by James CoplienThey exceeded my expectations