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The best book I've read for agile practitioners. Not for noobs... this isn't an introduction. But if you've been running agile projects for a year or two and want to know where to go from here, Larman lays things out clearly and practically, and I found very, very few points I disagree with. I'm even tempted to read the "companion" volume, although it promises to be filled with much more hands-on advice, and sounds a bit less useful for me.
Larman starts out by providing giving a bit of background in Lean, Systems Thinking, Queuing Theory, and other thinking tools. From there, he directly tackles the problems of scaling Scrum (and Agile in general) past the standard "7 plus or minus 2". He tackles team organization, work organization, prioritization, and flow, and uses the tools from the first section to back up his advice.
If you're an Agilist, pick this one up!
Larman starts out by providing giving a bit of background in Lean, Systems Thinking, Queuing Theory, and other thinking tools. From there, he directly tackles the problems of scaling Scrum (and Agile in general) past the standard "7 plus or minus 2". He tackles team organization, work organization, prioritization, and flow, and uses the tools from the first section to back up his advice.
If you're an Agilist, pick this one up!
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