Questionable reviews and mediocre content - Beware

The content is mediocre. It is as though a person paid a researcher to compile a compendium on the topic and then paid a narrator to read it without affect or intonation.

The performance was not checked for quality. the narrator snorts and snuffles quite audibly for five seconds at only 10 minutes in (8:23 in chapter 3 to be precise). A cursory QA/QC check and simple editing would have fixed this.

If you travel frequently and need to have someone read a series of whitepapers and wiki entries on Scrum, this is an OK stand-in for that use case.

Now... on to the reviews. 25 5-star ratings in 48 hours following the release and then none for two weeks. In isolation, there is nothing remarkable about these reviews, until you compare them with other works here on Audible...

Contrast this with a NYT AND Amazon bestseller "The Point of It All" by Charles Krauthammer, which was released Dec 04, 2018. At the time of this review, the Krauthammer book had 68 reviews dispersed over 20+ days. This book on Scrum has 25 reviews in 48 hours. I should have done my due diligence and research into this audiobook on Scrum, as the author's other Audible volumes appear to have a similar pattern of review distribution and timing. Sad.

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Awesome Audio Book

This is a great little book about Scrum basics and agile project management. If you aren't familiar, Scrum is basically a framework for completing complex projects. This books teaches you where what scrum and agile project management is all about and how to use it.

A Brief Explanation

This book, Scrum basics, really delves into the details on HOW to activate planning successfully, but not something for me.

According to my expectations

This book was easy to understand. This book has helped me grasp the concept of agile/scrum. I really liked the FAQ and final thoughts as it answered a lot of questions I had pertaining to the book.

Good Basic Knowledge

It breaks everything down and gives key points for Agile Scrum managing. Read and take notes you could be very successful. I reviewed this book at a promotional discount for my honest and unbiased opinion.

Nice Audiobook

Scrum basics discusses the history and principles of Agile project management in a simplified enough way for even those with no experience in the field to understand. It breaks down the differences in traditional offices compared to Agile ones and takes time to explain the terminology used in both the field as well as Scrum practice.

Amazing

Project is all about efficient team management and working as a group and this book guides this in a good way. There is a lot to learn from this book to help you perform better in your work environment and work more efficiently. Its a good book and quite insightful.

I loved It

The books go into the early years of development of programming being unsuccessful due to over emphasis on pre-planning and not working with customers to ensure their needs were being met throughout the development process.

Good Quality Material

This book is basically about how to work with customers and their programming/software development needs in a streamlined process to achieve results.

Pretty neat book

Pretty neat book -- if you run a business or supervisor employees it is worth check out. I received this audiobook at a discounted price in exchange for an honest, unbiased opinion.