Scrum

Full of engaging stories and real-world examples. The project management method known as Scrum may be the most widely deployed productivity tool among high-tech companies. On a mission to put this tool into the hands of the broader business world for the first time, Jeff Sutherland succeeds brilliantly. * Eric Ries, New York Times bestselling author of The Lean Startup * Required reading. * The Times (Book of the Week) * Engaging, persuasive and extremely practical...Scrum provides a simple framework for solving what seem like intractable and complicated work problems. Its hard to make forward progress when you cant see your impediments clearly. Sutherland offers a lens to remedy that. Amazingly, this book will not only make your life at work and home easier, but also, better and happier. * Shawn Achor, New York Times bestselling author of Before Happiness and The Happiness Advantage * This book contains immense practical value that could be transformative for your company. If you have a project that requires people to accomplish, your first act should be to read and be guided by Scrum. * Stephen Lundin, New York Times bestselling author of Fish: A Remarkable Way to Boost Morale and Improve Performance * Scrum is mandatory reading for any leader, whether theyre leading troops on the battlefield or in the marketplace. The challenges of todays world dont permit the luxury of slow, inefficient work. Success requires tremendous speed, enormous productivity, and an unwavering commitment to achieving results. In other words success requires Scrum. * General Barry McCaffrey *

Jeff Sutherland is the founder and Chairman of Scrum Inc. The father of Scrum and one of the original signers of the Agile Manifesto, Sutherland's work and ideas have truly changed the way the world works. He is a world-renowned thought leader, speaker and writer on innovation, productivity and how to unleash human potential. J.J. Sutherland is the CEO of Scrum Inc., a global leader in organisational change and Enterprise Agile Transformation, and the author of The Scrum Fieldbook. He is also an award-winning journalist who spent years covering wars, revolutions and uprisings for NPR in Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt and Libya.