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Scrum and XP from the Trenches (Enterprise Software Development) Paperback – June 11, 2007

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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.

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June 11, 2007
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An immensely practical guide to getting started with agile.- Mary Poppendieck, Author of Lean Software Development Series

Henrik's book is a starter kit of basic practices that help teams move beyond trying to do Scrum to executing Scrum well.- Jeff Sutherland, Co-creator of Scrum

Henrik goes on to describe some of the more difficult - and rarely covered - aspects of working in an agile organization, including coordinating the efforts of multiple Scrum teams.- InfoQ.com

A great contribution to the body of Agile knowledge, and a fun read!- ExtremePlanner.com

The most useful book on agile development that I've read, and I've read lots of them!- Lisa Crispin, Author of Agile Testing

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The tricky part to agile software development is that there is no manual telling you exactly how to do it. You have to experiment and continuously adapt the process until it suits your specific situation.

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.

This book includes:

Practical tips and tricks for most Scrum and XP practices
Typical pitfalls and how they were addressed
Diagrams and photos illustrating day-to-day work
Testing and test-driven development
Scaling and coordinating multiple teams
Dealing with resistance from inside and outside the team
Planning and time estimation techniques
Forwards by Jeff Sutherland and Mike Cohn

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Lulu Press, Inc. (June 11, 2007)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 140 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1430322640
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1430322641
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 1 year and up
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.98 x 0.35 x 9.02 inches

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Henrik Kniberg is a coach and consultant at Crisp in Stockholm, he has spent many years working at Spotify, LEGO, and other product companies. Henrik’s background is a mix of development and management, and his passion is applying Lean and Agile principles to help companies improve. Henrik is the author of "Scrum and XP from the Trenches", "Kanban & Scrum, making the most of both", and "Lean from the Trenches". He is a popular keynote speaker at conferences worldwide, and author of viral videos about Spotify engineering culture and Agile product ownership. Henrik lives in Stockholm with his wife and four kids, and in his “spare time” plays bass and keyboard with two local bands.

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L. David Marquet

And that's how it's done...

Reviewed in the United States on February 6, 2013

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My software friends are talking about Scrum, Agile, Pair Programming and I knew nothing about it. I have a friend who even suggested that Agile could be extended to general organizational design and even leadership!

I read Henrik Kniberg's book, Scrum and XP (Extreme Programming) from the Trenches, on his suggestion and, well, he's right!

Kniberg's book is a concise "how to" on how his company implements Agile in their software development business. It's chock full of great ideas and details that come only from those that have actually practiced something. As such, I gained a good insight into how Agile and Scrum work, and you will too.

What I want to explore more, however, is the idea that Agile can be applied as a model for leadership, or, more precisely, how can the practices of Agile be applied more broadly to knowledge workers? I think the best way to think about it to briefly recap the points of Agile and at every point where you see the word "product" think "culture." Let's see how that works.

1. The Agile process starts with describing stories about how the product should work. The focus is not on how things aren't working but how they should work. Process step 1: collect stories.

2. In preparation for the sprint planning meeting, have the product backlog (the list of stories about how we want our culture/product to be) in shipshape. This means being clear about the outcome including an defined "when done." This invokes the element of clarity and measurability. When we do workshops on changing culture this reminds me of the step where I ask, "...and how would we know...."

3. Have the sprint planning meeting with the team. Allow the team to determine the scope of what projects will be included in the upcoming sprint. Principle: give control, don't take control. Corollary: move authority to information, not information to authority.

4. Determine overall sprint goal prior to closing the planning meeting. This ensures the necessary supporting condition of clarity is in place.

5. Launch the team and get managers, coacher, owners, out of the way. Again, giving control to the people who know (the coders, testers, developers).

6. Always test the product with a demo before saying "done." This emphasis on actual products is very helpful, especially when changing business cultures where sometimes there is a tendency to think in terms of vague changes in mindset. Instead, we should focus on specific behavioral changes that we can observe and measure.

7. Conduct an assessment of how the Sprint went and measure team velocity. This would apply to following up on whether behavioral changes are sticking or not?

OK, well, that seems clear enough but when it came down to it, what was the leadership team actually working on -- the parallel to the code the developers were writing? Well, I think the code (sometimes I call it the DNA) for the company's culture is written in the policy documents that give authority for making decisions and detail how we will interact with each other. The cultural "coders" work on these policy documents in the same way the software developers work on the code.

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Bas Vodde

Short with lots of lessons

Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 2008

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Henrik's "Scrum and XP from the Trenches" is a very thin book (120 pages) which can be read within half a day. It describes the experiences of Henrik when implementing Scrum in one organization with multiple teams.

First, you can decide to support the author and purchase the paper book, like I did, or you can download the free version from: [...]

Then, the book itself. It's structured fairly logically. It starts with looking at the Product Backlog, from there goes over all the Scrum meetings in chronological order. For every meeting, the author describes how he did it in his company, what other things he tried and what his conclusions were.

After all the Scrum meetings, the book dives in a couple separate topics, like combining Scrum with XP practices, having breaks between sprint and some other topics. It ends with scaling and distributed teams, common questions.

The book is basically a how-to book, though its very clear that it just gives an example, to make Scrum more concrete, but does recommend for everyone to look for "their Scrum" instead of blindly copying the suggestions in the books. This is also the books strength, it provides very concrete tips without saying "this is how it must be done".

I have different experiences than the author in some areas, which makes me frown sometimes, though I enjoyed Henriks explanations. They helped me gain a different perspective on some issues.

I was doubting between 3 and 4 stars for this book. 3 stars would be since the book doesn't offer more than it promises. It is an experience story of Henrik and didn't add much surprises or extra content. Also 3 stars since its so small. 4 stars would be because there is probably not any more concrete Scrum story than this one. If you are wondering about concrete implementation after reading Ken Schwaber's books, then this is the book for you! Also 4 starts because its small, which is also an advantage. There is no unnecessary blah blah in the book, Henrik tells how it is!

A recommended book for Scrum practitioners and people starting with Scrum to learn about "How Henrik did it!" :)

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AncientOne

Fast Read on Practical Implementation

Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2010

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Scrum and XP from the Trenches describes the author's experiences in an open, succinct, informal manner. I found each chapter to be full of useful information, avoiding lengthy background information that many books on the subject cover. Many technical books, while useful, make the mistake of not giving enough examples of real implementations, which can make it difficult to see how it applies to your situation. The whole purpose of this book is to describe an actual project's approach and experiences, what worked and what did not.

Kniberg's writing style is informal, taking a conversational approach, which I found refreshing and somewhat humorous.

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Lisa Crispin

A Truly Useful Book on Agile Development

Reviewed in the United States on December 11, 2007

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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.

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Todd Trimble

Read this

Reviewed in the United States on October 13, 2011

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It's just one guy's story, and he says pretty clearly that your mileage may vary. But, if you're trying to get your mind around Scrum & XP and how it would look/feel to work on a team doing Scrum & XP, here's your chance.

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C Corbett

Answered my "yeah but" questions about implementing Scrum in the real world

Reviewed in the United States on December 18, 2007

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.

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Andrea

USEFUL!

Reviewed in Italy on February 17, 2022

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How to practically apply a SCRUM methodology. Very easy to read and useful.

Schüßler

Hands on & very helpful

Reviewed in India on April 30, 2019

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Ángel

great reading

Reviewed in Spain on August 12, 2014

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This is a must-read book by all of those who want to develop following agile techniques. Its content worths a lifetime of advices.

Jsh

Short, informal, but very useful

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 31, 2013

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First impressions when opening "Scrum and XP from the Trenches: How we do Scrum" are "ugh, what nasty yellow paper" and "wow, poor quality pictures". However, once past that initial impression, it's a very useful book. As documented in the book itself, it was written by the author in three days, whilst he had a fever. As a result, it does read like a brain-dump done quickly, rather than like a professionally edited book. "Lean from the Trenches: Managing Large-Scale Projects with Kanban", by the same author, is much better in that respect. However, a short, easy to read, brain-dump like this can sometimes be refreshingly informal. I quite liked it for a change, although I'm glad not all books are done this way.

Ignoring the paper, quality of the images, and some of the errors in the language used, the content is actually very useful. It's basically how one company does Scrum and XP, and so I found it interesting to compare how the company I work for does it against the company that Henrik Kniberg works for does it. I certainly picked up a few ideas that I will propose trying where I work, some of which could be big improvements, making things more efficient and more sustainable. It also reminded me that a few things we used to do, we have slipped out of the habit of doing. Reading this has spurred me on to get those things done again as they did add value. Of course, there are also things that the author's company does that we do differently, and I see no reason to change. As the author says, there are many ways of doing things with Scrum, and each team/company should identify what works for them.

So, for me as somebody who has been working in a distributed Agile team, doing both Scrum and Kanban, as well as aspects of XP (which the book touches on, but not in detail), this book has been useful in spurring me on to make some changes. I suspect it would be very useful for people completely new to Agile as well.

Recommended.

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Andrea, Jole, Giugiu e Lilli

Pragmatico

Reviewed in Italy on March 13, 2019

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Consiglio questo libretto di rapida lettura a chi periodicamente deve fare coaching a nuovi membri di team o a chi deve organizzare la transizione agile in una software house oppure, ancora meglio, a chi deve educare lo strato manageriale di un'azienda. In tutti questi casi infatti si avrà necessariamente bisogno di un libro molto pratico su come fare Scrum e XP.

In questo testo si possono reperire tante informazioni pratiche che dimostrano, con un approccio molto pragmatico, l'implementazione delle pratiche Scrum e XP. Copre quasi tutti gli aspetti, ad un livello di approfondimento non eccessivo ma di certo più che sufficiente, ed è davvero leggero da leggere e facile da capire.

Sebbene a mio parere non esista in assoluto una pratica migliore di altre su come essere agili, questo libro illustra un approccio sicuramente efficace. E rappresenta sicuramente un ottimo inizio per cominciare a conoscere le pratiche agili.

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