"Agile Scrum" Now Available to Wider Audience Through More Retailers, Bookstores, Libraries, Academic Institutions, and Distributors




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Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions
(Scott M. Graffius, author; Chris Hare and Colin Giffen, technical editors) helps teams deliver products and services in short cycles with rapid adaptation to change, fast time-to-market, and continuous improvement—which supports innovation and drives competitive advantage. Reactions to the book have been incredibly positive. It has won 17 first place awards.

I've been proud to have Amazon as the exclusive channel for Agile Scrum. Last month I received an email from a bookstore who wanted to carry the publication and asked about ordering it for resale. And on Monday of this week, a different bookstore called and had the same question. However, under the exclusive arrangement, distribution was limited to Amazon, and the bookstores were not able to get Agile Scrum for resale. To make the book available to those sellers—and others—I transitioned it to Expanded Distribution.

Both the print and ebook formats of Agile Scrum will still be available at Amazon, just not exclusively. Expanded Distribution provides access to a larger audience through more online retailers, bookstores, libraries, academic institutions, and distributors. With the change, Agile Scrum is now available for order through the following channels (in addition to Amazon):

  • Bookstores and Online Retailers - available to online and offline retailers such as Barnes & Noble and to distributors such as Ingram and the National Association of College Stores, Inc. (NACSCORP).
  • Libraries and Academic Institutions - offered through Baker & Taylor to libraries and academic institutions.
  • CreateSpace Direct - available to certified resellers through the CreateSpace Direct wholesale website.

The move to Expanded Distribution was initiated on July 5.

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Agile Scrum is offered in ebook/Kindle format (ASIN: B01FZ0JIIY) in:

๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ Australia from Amazon.com.au
๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡น Austria from Amazon.de
๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ช Belgium from Amazon.fr
๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ท Brazil from Amazon.com.br
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Canada from Amazon.ca
๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท France from Amazon.fr
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช Germany from Amazon.de
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ India from Amazon.in
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช Ireland from Amazon.co.uk
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น Italy from Amazon.it
๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ต Japan from Amazon.co.jp
๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ฎ Liechtenstein from Amazon.de
๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡บ Luxembourg from Amazon.de
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฝ Mexico from Amazon.com.mx
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡จ Monaco from Amazon.fr
๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Netherlands from Amazon.nl
๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฟ New Zealand from Amazon.com.au
๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฒ San Marino from Amazon.it
๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ Spain from Amazon.es
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ญ Switzerland from Amazon.de
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง United Kingdom from Amazon.co.uk
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States of America from Amazon.com
๐Ÿ‡ป๐Ÿ‡ฆ Vatican City from Amazon.it

Agile Scrum is sold in paperback (ISBN-13: 9781533370242) in:

๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ผ Aruba from The Book Depository (via UK/Australia)
๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ
Australia from Amazon.com.au
๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡น Austria from Bokus.com (via Sweden)
๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ธ Bahamas from The Book Depository (via UK/Australia)
๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ช Belgium from Bokus.com (via Sweden)
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Canada from Amazon.ca
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Czech Republic from Bokus.com (via Sweden)
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฐ Denmark from The Book Depository (via UK/Australia)
๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ฏ Fiji from The Book Depository (via UK/Australia)
๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ฎ Finland from Bokus.com (via Sweden)
๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท France from Amazon.fr
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช Germany from Amazon.de
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ท Greece from Bokus.com (via Sweden)
๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡บ Hungary from Bokus.com (via Sweden)
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ธ Iceland from Bokus.com (via Sweden)
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ India from Amazon.in
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช Ireland from Amazon.co.uk
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Israel from The Book Depository (via UK/Australia)
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น Italy from Amazon.it
๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ฒ Jamaica from The Book Depository (via UK/Australia)
๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ต Japan from Amazon.co.jp
๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡บ Luxembourg from Bokus.com (via Sweden)
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฝ Mexico from Amazon.com.mx
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡จ Monaco from Bokus.com (via Sweden)
๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Netherlands from bol.com
๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฟ New Zealand from Fishpond.co.nz, Amazon.com (via USA), and Booktopia.com.au (via Australia)
๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ด Norway from Bokus.com (via Sweden)
๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ช Peru from The Book Depository (via UK/Australia)
๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ญ Philippines from The Book Depository (via UK/Australia)
๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ท Puerto Rico from The Book Depository (via UK/Australia)
๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฌ Singapore from OpenTrolley Bookstore
๐Ÿ‡ฟ๐Ÿ‡ฆ South Africa from Loot.co.za
๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท South Korea from Bokus.com (via Sweden)
๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ Spain from Amazon.es
๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ช Sweden from Adlibris.com
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ญ Switzerland from Bokus.com (via Sweden)
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Ukraine from The Book Depository (via UK/Australia)
๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ช United Arab Emirates from Amazon.ae
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง United Kingdom from Amazon.co.uk, Blackwell's, and The Book Depository
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States of America from Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, AbeBooks, Books-a-Million, Diesel Bookstore (Santa Monica, California), Laguna Beach Books (Laguna Beach, California), Warwick’s (La Jolla, California), The Booksmith (San Francisco, California), University Press Books (Berkeley, California), Compass Books at SFO/Books Inc. (San Francisco, California), University of Arizona Bookstore (Tucson, Arizona), Strand Books (New York, New York), Hudson Booksellers (New York, New York), Harvard Book Store (Cambridge, Massachusetts), Savoy Bookshop & Café (Westerly, Rhode Island), Books & Books (Miami, Florida), and others
๐Ÿ‡ป๐Ÿ‡ณ Vietnam from U-buy.vn

Get your copy today!


Review copies of Agile Scrum are available to members of broadcast, print or online media. Visit http://bit.ly/REVIEW-COPY.

For more information on the book and to connect on social:

- Digital press kit https://AgileScrumGuide.com
- Trailer http://bit.ly/ASG-TRAILER
- Video channel https://bit.ly/ASG-CHANNEL
- Amazon https://amzn.to/2fVA3lW
- Twitter http://bit.ly/ASG-TWITTER
- Facebook https://bit.ly/ASG-ON-FB
- Instagram https://bit.ly/ASG-INSTA
- Pinterest http://bit.ly/ASG-PIN
- Blog https://bit.ly/AGILE-BLOG

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2018 Year in Review

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I’ve compiled a review of 2018. This post highlights my consulting business, book, speaking appearances, and blog.

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Business

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Organizations need to realize their strategic objectives and business initiatives. My professional services firm, Exceptional PPM and PMO Solutions™, helps our clients achieve those needs through advisory, training, and facilitative consulting services related to project, program, portfolio, and PMO management. Our expertise spans agile, traditional waterfall, and hybrid development and delivery frameworks. To learn more about the company, please visit http://exceptional-pmo.com.

A book and speaking appearances—extensions of Exceptional PPM and PMO Solutions™—are highlighted individually below.

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Book

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Inspired by a fantastic agile transformation experience and result with a client in the entertainment industry, Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions was published in 2016. It helps technical and non-technical teams develop and deliver products in short cycles with rapid adaptation to change, fast time-to-market, and continuous improvement—which supports innovation and drives competitive advantage. Between the date of publication and 2017, it garnered 15 first place awards from national and international competitions. The credit is shared with Chris Hare and Colin Giffen, the technical editors on the book.

Attention and interest continued in 2018. Accolades included two additional first place awards (making the updated total 17), being featured as a success story by the BEA, and more. And
Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions and I were featured in Yahoo Finance, Innovation Management, Informa Middle East, and additional media publications.

To make the book available to more sellers and customers, I transitioned it to Expanded Distribution in 2018. With the change, both the print and ebook formats of
Agile Scrum were still available at Amazon, just not exclusively. Expanded Distribution provided access to a larger audience through more online retailers, bookstores, libraries, academic institutions, and distributors. Agile Scrum became available through the following channels (in addition to Amazon):

  • Bookstores and Online Retailers - available to online and offline retailers such as Barnes & Noble and to distributors such as Ingram and the National Association of College Stores, Inc. (NACSCORP).
  • Libraries and Academic Institutions - offered through Baker & Taylor to libraries and academic institutions.
  • CreateSpace Direct - available to certified resellers through the CreateSpace Direct wholesale website.

Agile Scrum is still offered in print and digital formats at Amazon. The paperback is available in Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The ebook is for sale in Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

A trailer, high-resolution images, reviews, a detailed list of awards, and more on
Agile Scrum are available in the digital media kit at https://AgileScrumGuide.com.

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Speaking Appearances

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I've been fortunate to have spoken to diverse audiences on project, program, portfolio, and PMO management related topics of timely importance. I delivered five talks at conferences and other events in 2018:
  • Techstars conference
  • California Central Coast chapter of the Project Management Institute (PMI)
  • California Inland Empire chapter of the PMI
  • An event in Las Vegas
  • California Central Valley chapter of the PMI

Upcoming appearances in 2019 include the Project World conference in Canada, another talk at a PMI chapter, and more—to be announced. You can read more about my speaking engagements at
http://bit.ly/SpeakerOne.

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Blog

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My blog at http://scottgraffius.com/blog provides news, tips, and more on the intersection of project management with business and technology. In 2018, I published 48 new articles on the site. That’s down from last year, when I produced 65. However, traffic has been steadily growing per data from Google Analytics. In 2018, the blog had 109,771 page views, compared with 57,139 the prior year. That’s an increase of 92%!

There was a mix of different categories of topics. The top 10 articles in 2018 were:


The majority of visitors (53%) came from the United States. Rounding out the top 10 were France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Canada, Philippines, Brazil, India, Australia, and Sweden. While not in the top 10 for the year, there was a significant increase in traffic (primarily in late 2018) from Belgium, the Netherlands, and Japan.

Thank you for visiting the blog!

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"Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions" Featured in Presentation at DX Summit

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I’m pleased to have had content from
Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions (bit.ly/scrumone) featured by Eeshita Grover, Senior Manager at Cisco, in her presentation at DX Summit. The conference serves customer experience and digital marketing leaders tackling voice of the customer, machine learning and AI, big data and analytics, optimization, and digital experience challenges.

Eeshita Grover’s talk was on November 14, 2018 and her presentation (
https://www.slideshare.net/DXSummit/building-a-uex-strategy-for-inproduct-selfhelp-eeshita-grover) included 14 slides. Slide 13 featured content from the book:

“If you don’t collect any metrics, you’re flying blind. If you collect and focus on too many, they may be obstructing your field of view.”

— Scott M. Graffius,
Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions



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About Author Scott M. Graffius


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Scott M. Graffius, CSP, CSM, CSPO, PMP, ITIL, LSSGB is a project management expert, consultant, international speaker, and award-winning author. He is the CEO of Exceptional PPM and PMO Solutions, a professional services firm, where he partners with client companies to help them achieve their strategic objectives and business initiatives through project management leadership. The consultancy provides project, program, portfolio, and PMO management services inclusive of agile, traditional, and hybrid development and delivery frameworks. Business results include upgraded responsiveness to business needs, faster delivery and time-to-market, improved on-budget performance, higher customer and stakeholder satisfaction, and greater competitive advantage. Scott is a former vice president of project management with a publicly traded provider of diverse consumer products and services over the Internet. Before that, he ran and supervised the delivery of projects and programs in public and private organizations with businesses ranging from e-commerce to advanced technology products and services, retail, manufacturing, entertainment, and more. He has experience with consumer, business, reseller, government, and international markets.

His full bio is available here.

Connect with Scott on:


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About Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions

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Shifting customer needs are common in today's marketplace. Businesses must be adaptive and responsive to change while delivering an exceptional customer experience to be competitive.

There are a variety of frameworks supporting the development of products and services, and most approaches fall into one of two broad categories: traditional or agile. Traditional practices such as waterfall engage sequential development, while agile involves iterative and incremental deliverables. Organizations are increasingly embracing agile to manage projects, and best meet their business needs of rapid response to change, fast delivery speed, and more.

With clear and easy to follow step-by-step instructions,
Scott M. Graffius's award-winning Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions helps the reader:

  • Implement and use the most popular agile frameworkโ€•Scrum;
  • Deliver products in short cycles with rapid adaptation to change, fast time-to-market, and continuous improvement; and
  • Support innovation and drive competitive advantage.

Hailed by Literary Titan as “the book highlights the versatility of Scrum beautifully.”

Winner of 17 first place awards.

Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions is available in paperback and ebook/Kindle in the United States and around the world. Some links by country follow.



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Content from "Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions" Featured in Article from Learning Solutions

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Content from Scott M. Graffius'
Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions appeared in Three Reasons That eLearning Fails—and How to Fix Them, published in Learning Solutions. Here's an excerpt from the article by Dan Belhassen:

"Process improvement experts from Peter Drucker ("What's measured improves") to Scott M. Graffius ("If you don't collect any metrics, you're flying blind") agree that measuring key metrics, and focusing on improving them, is critical to actually achieving desired results."

The article is available online here:
https://www.learningsolutionsmag.com/articles/3-reasons-that-elearning-fails-and-how-to-fix-them/.



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About Author Scott M. Graffius

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Scott M. Graffius, CSP, CSM, CSPO, PMP, ITIL, LSSGB is a project management expert, consultant, international speaker, and award-winning author. He is the CEO of Exceptional PPM and PMO Solutions, a professional services firm, where he partners with client companies to help them achieve their strategic objectives and business initiatives through project management leadership. The consultancy provides project, program, portfolio, and PMO management services inclusive of agile, traditional, and hybrid development and delivery frameworks. Business results include upgraded responsiveness to business needs, faster delivery and time-to-market, improved on-budget performance, higher customer and stakeholder satisfaction, and greater competitive advantage. Scott is a former vice president of project management with a publicly traded provider of diverse consumer products and services over the Internet. Before that, he ran and supervised the delivery of projects and programs in public and private organizations with businesses ranging from e-commerce to advanced technology products and services, retail, manufacturing, entertainment, and more. He has experience with consumer, business, reseller, government, and international markets.

His full bio is available here.

Connect with Scott on:


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About Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions

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Shifting customer needs are common in today's marketplace. Businesses must be adaptive and responsive to change while delivering an exceptional customer experience to be competitive.

There are a variety of frameworks supporting the development of products and services, and most approaches fall into one of two broad categories: traditional or agile. Traditional practices such as waterfall engage sequential development, while agile involves iterative and incremental deliverables. Organizations are increasingly embracing agile to manage projects, and best meet their business needs of rapid response to change, fast delivery speed, and more.

With clear and easy to follow step-by-step instructions,
Scott M. Graffius's award-winning Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions helps the reader:

  • Implement and use the most popular agile frameworkโ€•Scrum;
  • Deliver products in short cycles with rapid adaptation to change, fast time-to-market, and continuous improvement; and
  • Support innovation and drive competitive advantage.

Hailed by Literary Titan as “the book highlights the versatility of Scrum beautifully.”

Winner of 17 first place awards.

Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions is available in paperback and ebook/Kindle in the United States and around the world. Some links by country follow.



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