书名：Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time
作者：Jeff Sutherland
出版社名称：Random House Business
出版时间：2015
语种：英语
ISBN：9781847941107
商品尺寸：12.9 x 1.6 x 19.8 cm
包装：平装
页数：256（以实物为准）

在项目管理中，我们通常会制定好详细的计划，对每一个阶段都进行严格的评审，当前一阶段的工作完成得足够好，才进入下一步。这种流程进度缓慢，开发过程往往滞后于计划，造成预算超支。并且制造出的产品也可能不符合用户变化的需求，或已经跟不上技术的发展。

为了规避这些缺陷，《Scrum》的作者萨瑟兰博士发明了Scrum方法。

与自上而下的命令式工作流程不同，Scrum是一套具有不断进化与自我修正能力的系统，让团队像机器人一样根据外界反馈进行调整。这套系统强调团队的高度透明性及密切的协同作业，通过精简内部成员之间的信息流，提高效率，实现高水平的业绩。

Scrum不仅是科技行业开发新软件和新产品的主要方式，还能够帮助你的公司改变固有的工作方式、创新方式、规划方式以及思考方式。

The definitive account of the Scrum methodology from its co-creator and the CEO of Scrum, Inc., Jeff Sutherland.

Scrum is the revolutionary approach to project management and team building that has helped to transform everything from software companies to the US military to healthcare in major American hospitals. 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.

“杰夫·萨瑟兰（Jeff Sutherland）”Scrum发明者与共同创造人，被誉为“Scrum之父”，《Scrum》起草人之一。

萨瑟兰毕业于西点军校，曾作为美国空军战斗机飞行员，完成过100次飞越北部越南的作战任务。

1972年，萨瑟兰获得斯坦福大学统计学硕士学位。

1980年，他获得科罗拉多大学的生物统计学博士学位。

1983年，萨瑟兰进入中洲计算机服务公司，该公司为150家银行提供技术服务，他负责研发ATM网络技术。萨瑟兰还先后担任了11家软件公司的首席执行官和首席技术官，积累了丰富的项目管理经验。

2006年，他成立了自己的公司Scrum, Inc.，提供Scrum管理方法的培训服务。

Dr Jeff Sutherland is the creator of Scrum and was a signer of the Agile Manifesto, which marked the start of the Agile movement.

A graduate of West Point, he began his career as a fighter pilot in the US Air Force, and went on to join the faculty at the University of Colorado Medical School.

Dr. Sutherland has served as VP of Engineering or CTO at 11 software companies, managing the last seven entirely using Scrum, and achieving industry-leading, hyper-productive results.

He is currently the CEO of Scrum, Inc., the Chairman of the Scrum Foundation, and Senior Advisor to OpenView Venture Partners, where he is Agile coach for venture-funded companies.