SCRUM A revolutionary approach to building teams

SCRUM is a project management process that breaks up a big project into several smaller parts to ensure that they are rapidly competed so that the project can be completed in a timely manner.

Dr Jeff uses many clear examples of how business projects can go off the rails by any number of variables. The solution he suggests is that SCRUM teams work well together and focus on the task they have at hand at the time. Throughout the easy to read book Dr Jeff gives scientifically backed rationale for the SCRUM approach to work. He reminds us that when recruiting we should not only be looking for workers who do exceptionally well but do well exceptionally quickly. He warns however that working night and day does not create quality outcomes and that we need to stick at doing one thing at a time and have time off.

The book provides enough information for an organisation to benefit from adopting the approach. As a project management tool SCRUM is robust. If a health organisation is struggling with project blowouts and has a desire to improve and the mandate to change how it operates then Dr Sutherland has a good solution that has been proven in the complex world that major American Hospitals operate in.

Scrum is the revolutionary approach to project management and team building that has helped to transform everything from software companies to the US military. In this major new book its originator, Jeff Sutherland, explains precisely and step by step how it operates - and how it can be made to work for anyone, anywhere. Take the FBI attempt to digitize its records, for example. As with so many software projects the first attempt failed, having taken four years and cost over $400 million. Then the FBI turned to Scrum, and just over a year later unveiled a functioning system that cost less than a tenth of the first project and employed a tenth of the staff. And it's not just grand projects that Scrum can help with.

Every organisation, whatever its size, constantly has to come to grips with delivering a product or service on time and on budget. Scrum shows you how. It explains how to define precisely what it is that you are seeking to achieve, how to set up the team to achieve it, and how to monitor progress until the project is successfully completed. Filled with practical examples drawn from all types and organisation it will make you rethink the fundamentals of successful management - and show you how to get things done however everyday or ambitious, however small or large your organisation.

http://scrumfoundation.com/about/jeff-sutherland provides a useful wider context of Dr Jeff's work.

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