As per Craig Larman’s recommendation, I read Agile Project Management with Scrum before attending Craig’s ScrumMaster certification course.
Overall, I am slightly disappointed. This book does not really help getting the basics of Scrum. Instead, it focuses on providing real-life feedback from projects that Ken has been involved with. Well, that’s all well and good, but I need to know the basics first. And I would add that, in retrospect, Craig’s training session could provide more complete details on that as well.
Anyway, back to Agile PM.
The good:
- short and well-written, an easy read. I feel that I can remember a larger proportion of it than many other books.
- seems honest. It does not hide difficulties with certain projects.
The disappointing:
- unlike Craig’s implication, this is not the best first book to read on Scrum. I think Agile Software Development With Scrum would be better (but I haven’t read it yet), and only then would you get the most from Agile PM.
