Okay, I finished Agile Project Management with Scrum by Ken Schwaber. Damned fine book that I highly recommend. The neat thing about this book is that is it defines Scrum, start to finish within a single chapter, that being chapter 1. The remaining chapters demonstrate exactly what Scrum is with real life examples of projects applying Scrum: the good, the bad and the ugly. Ken pull this off nicely.

I am still coming down on the side of Scrum with a bit of XP, as opposed to XP with a bit of Scrum. The simplicity of Scrum, its clear and concise rules and practices, fit with the way I tend to run projects. I don’t know enough of about XP in practice, so I’ve decided to attend XPDay this November. Also, we just had the pleasure of Rachel Davies, the now chair of Software Practice Advancement 2007 (formerly OT) come out to our offices to run a number of XP sessions. Interesting stuff…