First Principles in Scrum: Teams That Finish Early Accelerate Faster

by Jeff Sutherland

Do you want to be a better Scrum Master? Do you want to make a difference in the world? Are you a manager responsible for Agile teams?If so, then you need to learn the First Principles in Scrum.Some people say that these insights have changed their life, or given them their life back.Are you ready to make a change? Then read this book.Every week I get asked dozens of questions about Scrum from new Product Owners and Scrum Masters on every continent (except Antarctica). Most questions cannot be answered without going back to First Principles. This means you need to understand physics, biology, evolution, and psychology to do Scrum well.I was the wingman of the sole surviving Ace from World War II in Vietnam. He was a brilliant scientist and engineer, and he taught me a lot about First Principles thinking. I was also lucky enough to engage with similar trailblazers in physics, chemistry, medicine, biology, and AI. They were all part of the search for hyperproductive Scrum, and they make for an exciting story.In this book, I will share my insights on Scrum and First Principles thinking. I will also tell the stories of the trailblazers who helped me to develop my understanding of these concepts. I believe that this book can help you to become a more effective Agile Manager, Scrum Master or Product Owner.

475 pages, Paperback

Published November 23, 2024

About the author

Sutherland is a Graduate of the United States Military Academy, a Top Gun of his USAF RF-4C Aircraft Commander class[citation needed]. He flew more than one hundred missions over North Vietnam[citation needed]. After 11 years in the military, he became a doctor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine[citation needed]. Here he got involved in data collection and IT systems development.

Dr. Jeff Sutherland is one of the inventors of the Scrum software development process. Together with Ken Schwaber, he created Scrum as a formal process at OOPSLA'95. Sutherland helped to write the Agile Manifesto in 2001. He is the writer of The Scrum Guide.

by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Su...

It's professional profile on LinkedIn is :
linkedin.com/in/jeffsutherland

Reviews

[Tom Hombergs · Rating 2 out of 5]

I picked up this book looking forward to get nuggets of wisdom I can apply to my team, but the book makes it hard sieve them out of fluffy text. The book is written with the help of AI (credit to the author to explain this in the intro) and the text is filled with many obviously AI-generated phrases and paragraphs that have not been condensed enough to the essential information. The text should be much shorter.

I stopped reading after too many "Let's embark on a journey to.." and "...delve into the realm of...".

The nuggets of applicable wisdom are in the book, but the fluffy text made me stop wanting to dig them out.