Agile Product Management with Scrum: Creating Products that Customers Love (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Cohn))

by Roman Pichler

Paperback, 2010

Status

Available

Call number

QA76.76.D47.P494 2010

Publication

Addison-Wesley Professional (2010), Edition: 1, Paperback, 160 pages

Description

The First Guide to Scrum-Based Agile Product Management In Agile Product Management with Scrum, leading Scrum consultant Roman Pichler uses real-world examples to demonstrate how product owners can create successful products with Scrum. He describes a broad range of agile product management practices, including making agile product discovery work, taking advantage of emergent requirements, creating the minimal marketable product, leveraging early customer feedback, and working closely with the development team. Benefitting from Pichler�s extensive experience, you�ll learn how Scrum product ownership differs from traditional product management and how to avoid and overcome the common challenges that Scrum product owners face. Coverage includes Understanding the product owner�s role: what product owners do, how they do it, and the surprising implications Envisioning the product: creating a compelling product vision to galvanize and guide the team and stakeholders Grooming the product backlog: managing the product backlog effectively even for the most complex products Planning the release: bringing clarity to scheduling, budgeting, and functionality decisions Collaborating in sprint meetings: understanding the product owner�s role in sprint meetings, including the dos and don�ts Transitioning into product ownership: succeeding as a product owner and establishing the role in the enterprise This book is an indispensable resource for anyone who works as a product owner, or expects to do so, as well as executives and coaches interested in establishing agile product management.… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member TadAD
The book is 118 pages long. When I think about the duplication in various sections of it, there's probably around half that many pages of content.

I'd divide that content into two type of material. The first is the same introductory information that you'd get if you downloaded Schwaber and
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Sutherland's overview of Scrum from scrum.org. The second type of material consists of discussions about pitfalls in implementing Scrum, pitfalls in management practices, as well as a very brief look at things like burndown charts and different ways of slicing a development project.

That first type of material is available for free; this book is $35...you do the math on that one. The second type of material isn't weighty enough to carry the price load—I really see it as a 25 page introductory chapter in a larger book that provides some real meat.

There just isn't enough here to justify purchasing this. Put the money toward something that provides more depth.
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LibraryThing member rrestout
The book doesn't add much to the current literature.
Most of it can be found in most other agile project management books. During all the time I was reading it, i was wondering whether the target audience was product managers/owners or scrum masters!
What is not in other agile development books can
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be found in other product management books/blogs/articles or even in the Pragmatic Marketing framework.

To summarize I fully agree with TadAd: There just isn't enough to justify purchasing this
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LibraryThing member eugene17
I agree with the reviews below. Save your money and just find good agile websites. Nothing revolutionary or even explanatory (real world examples) with this one.
Good for beginners but definitely think twice before buying it. If you can borrow it, the better.

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Physical description

160 p.; 5.91 x 0.2 inches

ISBN

9780321605788
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