Become an Agile Project Manager: Beginner’s Guide to Mastering Agile Project Management with Scrum, Kanban, Scrumban, Lean, Six Sigma, and Extreme Programming (Project Management by Ready Set Agile) Paperback – 14 Sept. 2020

I'm a professionally certified, time-served and experienced Scrum Master who decided to evaluate this book as a potential training text for the juniors in my function. I am glad I did, because there is no way I am presenting this misinformation to them.The book contains 166 pages of content. My first impressions was to notice that the book is written in a quite large bubbly sans serif font, and whilst this was jarring at first, I persevered.48 pages in, however, the jig was up. This book offers comically poor, factually incorrect definitions for basic agile information such as the the purposes of a stand up, and confuses the purposes of a sprint review the goals of a retrospective. Merely a paragraph later, makes the claim that agile projects still need a project manager "just like waterfall projects" (which is awkward when the far shorter and easier to digest 15 page Scrum Guide - which is written by the creators of scrum and is given away for on their website for free - makes clear that there is no traditional project manager in an agile team, because the team is self-organising and self-directing, ergo they are all the project manager, together).Such basic errors in comprehension made me suspicious about who the author was. This prompted me to flip back to the front cover, but their name is not present. I checked the first few pages inside, and it isn't there either. Who considers themselves to be an authority on a subject such that they write a book on it, but isn't brave enough to put their name to it?It also made me suspicious about who may have written a review on the back of the book, or a forward for the book, because frankly, I was amazed that page 48 got past any editor who knew the subject matter and I wanted to know if there were any peers who were brave enough to put their name on the book in the form of an endorsement. Guess what? No reviews and no forward.I will not be progressing past page 48. I will instead be looking to return this book and recollecting my money because this book is, in my professional opinion, not fit for purpose.

A useful addition to the endless range of Project Management books out there. It is a short, easy read, and it certainly helpful for new project managers.