If you are interested in scrum as an agile practice or a practicing scrum engineer , then this book Scrum from the trenches is a must read.
I have been practicing so many forms of scrum like practices over the years. Most of them are some form of iterative , XP like processes. What I find interesting is why do companies stress so much over a process. Time and again i have seen that in the end the only thing that matters is how good, dedicated, fun loving, hardworking and smart your development team is.
All other factors process, tools etc are just means to achieve the end goal. You could have the best possibe process scrum, waterfall, no process, etc etc.
Scrum masters, project managers please note:
Build your team. Make it interesting. Give them responsibilities , trust them. Just keep monitoring and help the team keep focus.
When building a team pay attention to the team factor. Would she or he fit in the team. The first few times you see that the developer is not fitting in the team for whatever factors, change them.
Every person fits in certain kinds of teams. I think in playing this game of process process, we tend to forget that we are all human first ,developer next. if someone does not fit in a team, thats not the end of the world. Change the team. Hear to the team members.
The team is all you have for a successful project. Go Team:)
