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Scrum For Managers: Management Secrets To Building Agile & Results-Driven Organizations Paperback – January 9, 2015

by Rini van Solingen (Author), Rob van Lanen (Author)

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How to help stakeholders understand the benefits of Scrum? You don’t need to take a Scrum Certified training (with a cost in the thousands of dollars) to learn to sell Scrum to your manager and your organization. Scrum for Managers will get you started now, and will keep you going tomorrow This book will give you the understanding and the arguments you need to help your manager, or your team to adopt Scrum. The book covers such key topics as these:

What is the Return on Investment of Scrum?
The 9 most important benefits of Scrum
Examples of wide applicability of Scrum
The 4 reasons why agile is needed
The 7 most important changes for managers
How to define and manage budgets and yearly plans with Scrum

The content in this book represents many years of experience, and tackles the questions you will have, and the questions you will be asked when introducing Scrum in your organization. Reading this book will save you countless days, weeks and months in implementation. Most importantly it will reduce your stress and guide you in your adoption of Scrum – no matter the size of your organization. But my organization has so many questions… If you are a manager adopting Scrum, this book will help you tackle the right questions based on Rini’s and Rob’s long hands-on experience. The book covers the top 50 questions that get asked over and over again in Scrum adoptions around the world. If you work with managers that are adopting Scrum in their organization this book will give you a very easy way to communicate with them, because this book is written from the manager’s perspective, and tackles their biggest questions and objections to adopt Scrum.

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212 pages
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January 9, 2015
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6 x 0.48 x 9 inches
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0990466523
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978-0990466529
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Happy Melly Express; 1st edition (January 9, 2015)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 212 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0990466523
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0990466529
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.4 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.48 x 9 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #4,515,500 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Rini van Solingen (prof.dr.) is a speaker, author, professor, and entrepreneur. His expertise lies in the speed and agility of people and organizations. Rini is a part-time full professor at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. He is also the CTO at Prowareness We-On, where, as a strategic consultant, he helps clients make their organizations fast and agile. Rini is the author of a number of management books, including The Power of Scrum (2011 - with Jeff Sutherland and Eelco Rustenburg), Scrum for Managers (2015 – with Rob van Lanen) and the management novel: How to lead self-managing teams? (2016).

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Ben Linders

What managers can do to make Scrum succeed

Reviewed in the United States on August 26, 2015

There are many books on agile and Scrum. Most describe what agile is and how agile teams work.

This book is different. It is not focused on the teams, but on managers. It describes what agile and Scrum is in the language spoken by managers. Explains subjects that are important for managers, such as targets and KPIs, the ROI of Scrum, organizational structure and leadership.

It is also a practical guide for managers, which describes what they can do to ensure that Scrum teams can be successful. Provides ideas for their contribution in an agile transition and what they can do to anchor agile processes in the organization.

A downside of the book is that it's only about Scrum. Although Scrum is the most common agile framework, it is not the only one. There are many practices that organizations can use to increase agility. My feeling is that focusing on Scrum gives a one-sided view, and leaves out some valuable stuff.

Nevertheless, I recommend this book to managers and to engineers, architects, tech leads, product owners, basically everyone dealing with agile. Read it and use the knowledge inside to your advantage!

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Christian Czinczel

Alles, was Manager über Scrum wissen müssen

Reviewed in Germany on September 11, 2015

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Das Buch richtet sich, wie der Titel bereits verrät, an Manager, die eine Organisation in eine agile Organisation mit Scrum-Teams transformieren möchten.

Zu Beginn des Buches leisten die Autoren Überzeugungsarbeit und erläutern, wie Scrum in agilen Organisationen funktioniert und welche Erfolge damit erreicht werden können.

Im Folgenden wird auf den Unterschied und auf die Wechselwirkung zwischen agilen Organisationen und Scrum Teams eingegangen. Dies ist wichtig für Manager zu kennen und zu verstehen, da sich ihre Führungsaufgabe innerhalb einer agilen Organisation ändert und sich vom bisherigen Verständnis und den Aufgaben eines Manager unterscheidet.

Die Verantwortung eines Managers in einer agilen Organisation ist es hauptsächlich, für (selbstorganisierenden) Scrum-Teams ein Umfeld zu schaffen, indem sie ihr volles Potential ausschöpfen können.

Neben der verbesserten Kundenzufriedenheit möchten Organisationen auch auf der Kostenseite einen Nutzen durch die Einführung von Scrum erzielen. Welcher monetärer Nutzen, welchen Kosten gegenüberstehen erläutern die Autoren in einer Kosten-/Nutzenanalyse.

Einen breiten Raum nimmt danach das Vorgehen für die Etablierung von Scrum-Teams ein. Es wird erläutert, welche vorbereitenden Massnahmen notwendig sind, bevor man Scrum Teams bilden kann, um diese dann anschliessend zu etablieren. Auf diesem Weg lauern einige Fallstricket, auf diese wird ebenfalls eingegangen. Weiter zeigen die Autoren auf, wie der Transformationsfortschritt gemessen werden kann.

Wenn Scrum-Teams etabliert sind und damit viele steuernde Aufgaben selbst vom Team wahrgenommen werden (Stichwort selbstorganisierende Teams), stellt sich für Manager die Frage, wie stellt man sicher, dass die Scrum-Teams in die richtige strategische Richtung arbeiten? Und wie kann man den Status und Fortschritt von Projekten überwachen? Können die Anforderungen an Termine und Qualität eingehalten werden?

Für alle diese Fragen liefern die Autoren Konzept und Werkzeug, wie man als Manager diese Fragen beantwortet bekommt.

Abgeschlossen wird das Buch mit einer Betrachtung, wie Scrum skaliert und welche Rolle hierbei das Management spielt.

Insgesamt ist das Buch für Manager zu empfehlen. Für Agile Consultants und Scrum Master ist das Buch eine hilfreiche Quelle, um die richtigen Argumente bei der Diskussion mit Manager zu finden.

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