Essential Scrum: A Practical Guide to the Most Popular Agile Process

Forewordby Mike Cohn

I had lunch today at a Burger King. A sign on the wall proclaimed the restaurant the “Home of the Whopper” and then proceeded to tell me there were over a million different ways to order a Whopper. If various combinations of extra or no pickles, tomatoes, lettuce, cheese, and so on can lead to over a million ways to make a hamburger, there must be billions of possible ways to implement Scrum. And while there is no single right way, there are better and worse ways to implement Scrum.

In Essential Scrum, Kenny Rubin helps readers find the better ways. His isn’t a prescriptive book—he doesn’t say, “You must do this.” Instead, he teaches the essential principles underlying success with Scrum and then gives us choices in how we ...