Scrum and XP from the Trenches (Enterprise Software Development) [Paperback]

Henrik Kniberg (Author)

Book Description

Series: Enterprise Software Development | Publication Date: October 4, 2007

This book aims to give you a head start by providing a detailed down-to-earth account of how one Swedish company implemented Scrum and XP with a team of approximately 40 people and how they continuously improved their process over a year's time. Under the leadership of Henrik Kniberg they experimented with different team sizes, different sprint lengths, different ways of defining "done", different formats for product backlogs and sprint backlogs, different testing strategies, different ways of doing demos, different ways of synchronizing multiple Scrum teams, etc. They also experimented with XP practices - different ways of doing continuous build, pair programming, test driven development, etc, and how to combine this with Scrum.

Product Details

• Paperback: 140 pages
• Publisher: Lulu.com (October 4, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1430322640
• ISBN-13: 978-1430322641
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.1 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #272,952 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Truly Useful Book on Agile Development, December 11, 2007

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Lisa Crispin (Denver, CO United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Scrum and XP from the Trenches (Enterprise Software Development) (Paperback)

I've worked on agile teams since 2000, and have talked to many teams making the transition to agile. I've found that most people learn best through examples and hearing about other peoples' real life experiences. This book of "war stories from the trenches" is exactly what agile newbies need. I've read lots of books on agile development, and this is one of the most useful. It's superbly organized, written and illustrated. The author relates his team's experiences simply and clearly. Larger organizations with multiple teams will find valuable ideas on how to organize.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Must read for new Scrum s, December 17, 2007

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A. Karnik (Boston, MA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Scrum and XP from the Trenches (Enterprise Software Development) (Paperback)

I started learning about Scrum just like anyone else, by reading Ken Schwaber's Scrum books and started to implement Scrum in my company. However, as you go along this process, you soon realize that you have more questions about Scrum than you started! You begin to hunt for info and answers to "how do others do this?" kind of questions. Thats when you read Henrik's book which is an account of how his team applied Scrum to their own group and how they solved their problems!

This book is an extremely well written (almost narrated) account of the issues they encountered and how they overcame those. You will immediately relate to those and will find yourselves saying ..."ahh thats it!" This book is very well written and is very easy and quick to read.

Because the book is a narrative of someone's efforts, it is also easily read by people who dont really know Scrum. I have given copies of this book to people who i want to get excited about Scrum, so that they themselves will realize that there are alternatives out there to doing software development, rather than the traditional waterfall process.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Answered my "yeah but" questions about implementing Scrum in the real world, December 18, 2007

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Cale L. Corbett "history buff" (Austin, TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Scrum and XP from the Trenches (Enterprise Software Development) (Paperback)

I am familiar with this book from the online PDF version from InfoQ. Like most who are new to Scrum -having come from other frameworks- I was filled with questions that started with "yeah but..." and "what about". None of them were answered satisfactorily by any Scrum book (even those by Schwaber or Cohn) until I read Henrik's.