Book of the month: Scrum and XP from the Trenches

I promised myself to keep reading about tools, programming languages and methodologies and to try to read one book every month. Well, I already keep reading, this is time for:

Scrum and XP from the Trenches (Enterprise Software Development)

I liked it, I am not a Scrum practitioner yet, but I took a few interesting ideas. I liked the Spanish translation, so, you can imagine, I can not judge the language style of English version. What I liked the most is the simplification of methodology to a pragmatic point, to do only things that work.

Some ideas to keep in mind:

- Prediction of project length by poker gaming. Fun!
- Digitalize it all is not that important, a wall with tacks and post-its is as useful, or more, than a colourfull web application.
- Day of research and learning.
- Situation of members in a room is important.
- SCRUM methodology from a pragmatic and useful point of view.
- and so on...

I got a free digital version (legal, it ensures), but that web no longer exists.

Next month, I hope I will have learned something about stress testing.

Keeping the reading up! See you..



[Edited] Thanks Javier Del Palacio for your corrections again, they are always welcome :)