Scrum
A arte de fazer o dobro de trabalho na metade do tempo
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A arte de fazer o dobro de trabalho na metade do tempo
Ratings24
Average rating4
For those who believe that there must be a more agile and efficient way for people to get things done, here is a brilliantly discursive, thought-provoking book about the leadership and management process that is changing the way we live. In the future, historians may look back on human progress and draw a sharp line designating “before Scrum” and “after Scrum.” Scrum is that ground-breaking. It already drives most of the world’s top technology companies. And now it’s starting to spread to every domain where leaders wrestle with complex projects. If you’ve ever been startled by how fast the world is changing, Scrum is one of the reasons why. Productivity gains of as much as 1200% have been recorded, and there’s no more lucid – or compelling – explainer of Scrum and its bright promise than Jeff Sutherland, the man who put together the first Scrum team more than twenty years ago. The thorny problem Jeff began tackling back then boils down to this: people are spectacularly bad at doing things with agility and efficiency. Best laid plans go up in smoke. Teams often work at cross purposes to each other. And when the pressure rises, unhappiness soars. Drawing on his experience as a West Point-educated fighter pilot, biometrics expert, early innovator of ATM technology, and V.P. of engineering or CTO at eleven different technology companies, Jeff began challenging those dysfunctional realities, looking for solutions that would have global impact. In this book you’ll journey to Scrum’s front lines where Jeff’s system of deep accountability, team interaction, and constant iterative improvement is, among other feats, bringing the FBI into the 21st century, perfecting the design of an affordable 140 mile per hour/100 mile per gallon car, helping NPR report fast-moving action in the Middle East, changing the way pharmacists interact with patients, reducing poverty in the Third World, and even helping people plan their weddings and accomplish weekend chores. Woven with insights from martial arts, judicial decision making, advanced aerial combat, robotics, and many other disciplines, Scrum is consistently riveting. But the most important reason to read this book is that it may just help you achieve what others consider unachievable – whether it be inventing a trailblazing technology, devising a new system of education, pioneering a way to feed the hungry, or, closer to home, a building a foundation for your family to thrive and prosper.
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First of all, I want to acknowledge the processes, principles, and frameworks around scrum are a net good. They've helped me and the teams I've worked on deliver exceptional projects time and again. But this isn't a review of scrum, it's a review of Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time.At face value I assumed this book would provide guidelines into the best practices behind scrum, and be more aligned to a book such as [b:Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days 25814544 Sprint How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days Jake Knapp https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1457284924l/25814544.SY75.jpg 45671240] (which I gave 5 stars). But this wasn't it.Scrum reads like a book written by someone who wants their legacy upheld in an autobiography of sorts. Time and again, the reader has to wade through examples where Sutherland has performed miracles with scrum. Examples of how military exercises and military figures helped inspire him to develop the methodologies... how the special forces (US military) used scrum to figure out how to kill people more efficiently (note: these weren't quite the words he used, but you can read between the lines). How scrum helped law enforcement arrest more people than ever before (note: these were pretty much the words he used, no reading between the lines required).The book opens with how the author was one of the best fighter pilots in Vietnam and quickly jumps to 9/11 and how scrum helped the FBI. That is the tone that the book set immediately.The 2 stars I'm giving this review feel more like a 1.5. The book certainly has some gems within, but you could get all of these by skipping to the end of each chapter and reading the key takeaways. Let me save you some time:* Planning is useful. Blindly following plans is stupid.* Inspect and adapt.* Change or die.* Fail fast so you can fix early.* Hesitation is death. Observe, Orient, Decide, Act.* Look outward for answers.* Great teams are cross-functional, autonomous, and empowered, with a transcendent purpose.* Don't guess. Plan, do, check, act.etc. etc. etc.A lot of death or dying chat, with attempted parallels between making a to-do app and most effectively committing war crimes in the Korean peninsula, or bootlicking psychologically abusive colonels.If you're looking for an instructional book that gets to the point with concrete, applicable examples, then this isn't the book for you. If you want a semi-autobiographical account of the man who singlehandedly saved the world with scrum, this is the one.Edit: Dropped to 1 star because, in retrospect, that half-star wasn't worth the rounding-up.
Though more oriented towards managers and business owners instead of employees, this was still an interesting read. I've known Scrum in theory for a while, and haven't had the chance to put it to practice yet (should be soon). It's nice to get into the origins of it, by one of its creators.
