Scrum For Managers: Management Secrets To Building Agile & Results-Driven Organizations - Softcover

Van Solingen, Rini; Van Lanen, Rob

 
9780990466529: Scrum For Managers: Management Secrets To Building Agile & Results-Driven Organizations

Inhaltsangabe

How to help stakeholders understand the benefits of Scrum? You don’t need to take a Scrum Certified training (with a cost in the thousands of dollars) to learn to sell Scrum to your manager and your organization. Scrum for Managers will get you started now, and will keep you going tomorrow This book will give you the understanding and the arguments you need to help your manager, or your team to adopt Scrum. The book covers such key topics as these:

  • What is the Return on Investment of Scrum?
  • The 9 most important benefits of Scrum
  • Examples of wide applicability of Scrum
  • The 4 reasons why agile is needed
  • The 7 most important changes for managers
  • How to define and manage budgets and yearly plans with Scrum
The content in this book represents many years of experience, and tackles the questions you will have, and the questions you will be asked when introducing Scrum in your organization. Reading this book will save you countless days, weeks and months in implementation. Most importantly it will reduce your stress and guide you in your adoption of Scrum – no matter the size of your organization. But my organization has so many questions… If you are a manager adopting Scrum, this book will help you tackle the right questions based on Rini’s and Rob’s long hands-on experience. The book covers the top 50 questions that get asked over and over again in Scrum adoptions around the world. If you work with managers that are adopting Scrum in their organization this book will give you a very easy way to communicate with them, because this book is written from the manager’s perspective, and tackles their biggest questions and objections to adopt Scrum.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Rini van Solingen (Prof. Dr.) is a part-time full professor in Global Software Engineering at the Delft University of Technology, where he heads the research and education regarding worldwide- distributed software teams. Rini is also CTO at Prowareness (www.scrum.nl), where he helps, together with his colleagues in the Netherlands, Germany, India, and the United States, to quickly deliver working and valuable results for and with customers. He also advises management teams on this subject. He is always happy to give lectures or lead training courses or workshops, so feel free to invite him. Next to his work for Prowareness and the TU Delft, Rini actively works for the “Logeerplezier” foundation, which he founded together with his wife Patricia. Logeerplezier arranges holiday homes and sleepovers for handicapped children and their families. Of course you can also send Rini an email at rini@scrum.nl or d.m.vansolingen@tudelft.nl. Feel free to approach Rini to ask a question or have a discussion. He likes hearing from you and usually responds faster than you would expect. Rob van Lanen is an Entrepreneur and member of the leadership team at Prowareness. Additionally, he is a Professional Scrum Trainer for scrum.org. As a Management Coach, Rob enthusiastically works towards improving the organization of the Prowareness customers. Nowadays he is more frequently presenting in boardrooms because from there it is possible to realize support for organizational change. As a Change Agent, he contributes his passion and experience with Prowareness to jointly take the next step in the mission to spread agility across the world. As a Professional Scrum Trainer (PST), Rob is certified by scrum.org to give specialist trainings for the Scrum Master (PSM) and Product Owner (PSPO) roles. You can learn more about him by following him on Twitter (@robvanlanen) and you can also contact him via email at rob@scrum.nl.

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