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Whenever a useful idea, like Scrum, reaches a certain level of awareness, it can be occasionally applied imperfectly. If it’s simple in concept but hard to do, the imperfect examples might overwhelm the good ones, and people begin to complain about the thing, rather than the bad implementation of the thing.

I’ve seen people do things that they call “Scrum” poorly. The process they used was infl

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	スクラム実践者が知るべき97のこと by Gunther Verheyen (Goodreads Author), Evelien Acun-Roos (Contributor), Peter Beck (Contributor) 3.84 avg rating — 57 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Software Configuration Management Patterns: Effective Teamwork, Practical Integration (Software Patterns Series) by Stephen P. Berczuk (Goodreads Author), Brad Appleton 3.39 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 2002	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pattern Languages of Program Design by James O. Coplien (Goodreads Author), Douglas C. Schmidt, Stephen P. Berczuk (Goodreads Author) 3.41 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1995 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pattern Languages of Program Design 2 by John M. Vlissides (Editor), James O. Coplien (Goodreads Author), Stephen P. Berczuk (Goodreads Author) 3.65 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1996	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Configuration Management Principles and Practice by Ross Venables, Glen Hass, Stephen P. Berczuk (Goodreads Author) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Streamed Lines: Branching Patterns for Parallel Software Development by Brad Appleton, Stephen P. Berczuk (Goodreads Author), Ralph Cabrera did not like it 1.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1998	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Practitioner's Handbook of Project Performance: Agile, Waterfall and Beyond (Project and Programme Management Practitioner Handbooks) by Mark Phillips (Editor), Stephen P. Berczuk (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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