Easy and clear to read within a day.
This is a great guide to scrum for beginner.
A good read if you want to be convinced why you should try Scrum
This is a gentle introduction to Scrum, written mainly for the people who manage programmers and software development projects. It doesn't so much teach how to implement Scrum, as it is a comforting explanation of why you should try it, and why it will work for you. Especially when everything else has failed. It also shows how to sell the methodology to the programmers who will be living with it, and to senior managers, business peers, and software customers.
Read this if you've heard of Scrum, and want to know more. Get more Scrum books, and get some training, before you actually implement it.
Good but not the best
My first exposure to Mr. Schwaber's work on Agile development was through one of his later books, Agile Project Management with Scrum (Microsoft Professional). I would recommend that other book more highly than this. This one conveys more of the history of how Scrum developed through practice and for that it is a good resource. Knowing why some aspects are not included and having the benefit of the author's train of thought on the topic is useful. But it can also be cumbersome to sift through those lessons learned without the book seeming a bit disorganized. Therefore, if you have time for only one book on this topic, I would recommend the other mentioned. A good resource but not the best from Mr. Schwaber.
An Excellent Intro to Scrum
This book gives a great introduction for those of you looking to learn more about Scrum. It has it's annoying copy errors, but it's definitely a must read.
My husband likes it so far
Little weird to review a book before actually reading it. My husband is learning English with it. I observed that it has an accessible language for those who are first exploring SCRUM.
