|
Showing 1 - 5 of
5 matches in All Departments
__________________________ The definitive book on the Scrum
methodology from its co-creator and the CEO of Scrum, Inc., Jeff
Sutherland. Scrum is the revolutionary approach to project
management and team building that has helped to transform
everything from software companies to the US military to healthcare
in major American hospitals. In this major new book its originator,
Jeff Sutherland, explains precisely and step by step how it
operates - and how it can be made to work for anyone, anywhere.
Take the FBI attempt to digitize its records, for example. As with
so many software projects the first attempt failed, having taken
four years and cost over $400 million.Then the FBI turned to Scrum,
and just over a year later unveiled a functioning system that cost
less than a tenth of the first project and employed a tenth of the
staff. And it's not just grand projects that Scrum can help with.
Every organisation, whatever its size, constantly has to come to
grips with delivering a product or service on time and on budget.
Scrum shows you how. It explains how to define precisely what it is
that you are seeking to achieve, how to set up the team to achieve
it, and how to monitor progress until the project is successfully
completed. Filled with practical examples drawn from all types and
organisation it will make you rethink the fundamentals of
successful management - and show you how to get things done however
everyday or ambitious, however small or large your organisation.
__________________________ '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 'Engaging, persuasive and extremely practical... Scrum
provides a simple framework for solving what seem like intractable
and complicated work problems. 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 'Scrum is mandatory
reading for any leader, whether they're leading troops on the
battlefield or in the marketplace. The challenges of today's world
don't 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.' - U.S. General BARRY McCAFFREY 'Jeff Sutherland is the
master of creating high-performing teams. The subtitle of this book
understates Scrum's impact. If you don't get three times the
results in one-third the time, you aren't doing it right!' - SCOTT
MAXWELL, Founder & Senior Managing Director, OpenView Venture
Partners 'This deceptively simple system is the most powerful way
I've seen to improve the effectiveness of any team. I started using
it with my business and family halfway through reading the book. -
LEO BABAUTA, creator of ZEN HABITS '[Scrum] dramatically increases
productivity while reducing employees' frustrations with the
typical corporate nonsense. This book is the best description I've
seen of how this process can work across many industries. Senior
leaders should not just read the book - they should do what
Sutherland recommends.' - PROFESSOR JEFFREY PFEFFER, Stanford
Business School; co-author of THE KNOWING-DOING GAP
We live in a world that is broken. For those who believe that there
"must "be a more efficient way for people to get things done, here
from Scrum pioneer Jeff Sutherland is a brilliantly discursive,
thought-provoking book about the 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 people 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 quickly and
efficiently. 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.
|
Touche (Paperback)
JJ Sutherland
|
R477
R410
Discovery Miles 4 100
Save R67 (14%)
|
Ships in 10 - 15 working days
|
Shae Caldwell left Connecticut financialy and emotionaly
devastated. Aunt Amanda's ranch in Dawson, Wy. was her last hope.
Shae and her son set out on an adventure in the West that they
could never experience in the East. What Eric Sinclair teaches
Shae, is the true meaning of love. And it is that true love that
keeps Shae going through what is about to be the hardest thing she
will ever have to endure. Death is no stranger to Shae, and trying
to deal with it by running away only makes it worse. An Indian
myth, shakes shae's reality. Is her young son really being lead by
a ghost?
_______________________ FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR
OF SCRUM Do you never get as much done as you need to? Sometimes,
even the most important projects can feel painstakingly slow. But
it doesn't have to be this way. In his international bestseller
Scrum, J.J. Sutherland introduced a simple, revolutionary tool used
by Google, Amazon and the FBI to turbo-charge the output of every
team. He called it the Scrum method. Now, Sutherland returns with a
step-by-step guide to using this revolutionary system at any level
of any company. With its emphasis on rapid innovation, no-bullshit
meetings and quick-fire decision-making, Scrum will transform your
productivity - starting today. PRAISE FOR THE SCRUM METHOD 'Every
business needs a methodology for getting stuff done, for successful
collaboration and scalable management techniques. Scrum is the
answer.' Entrepreneur '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, author of The Lean Startup
|
You may like...
Tenet
John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, …
DVD
(1)
R51
Discovery Miles 510
|