Resources

 

The following is a list of web sites, books, articles and other resources, as proposed by members.

 

• Agile Manifesto and Agile Principles - Start with this page: http://agilemanifesto.org/ And there is a link there to the Principles of Agile Software.

 

• APLN - This is the link to the national Agile Project Leadership Network. http://apln.org/

 

• Agile Alliance - The articles list at Agile Alliance: http://www.agilealliance.org/resources

 

• For Scrum information, see ScrumResources.

 

• Scrum Alliance - Many things, including a list of Certified Scrum Master course. scrumalliance.org

 

• Ken Schwaber - He co-invented Scrum. See http://controlchaos.com/

 

• Jeff Sutherland - He co-invented Scrum. See http://jeffsutherland.com/scrum/

 

• Agile Modeling - This is Scott Ambler's site. http://agilemodeling.com/

 

• The New New Product Development Game - Here is the famous HBR article itself: http://apln-richmond.pbwiki.com/f/New%20New%20Prod%20Devel%20Game.pdf And here is the link to buy the PDF article for $6 (strongly recommended, you really should): Harvard Business Review

 

• Want Better Software? - This is an article about what a customer can do if they want better software. By Mike Cohn. http://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/articles/WantBetterSoftware.pdf

 

• User Stories Presentations by Mike Cohn - Here is a link to a page, where, down on the list, you will find several presentations on User Stories. See: http://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/presentations.php

 

• Extreme Business Value - Here is a web article by Ken Schwaber about extreme business value and Scrum. Ken and Jeff Sutherland invented Scrum (one of the main flavors of Agile) in the early 1990's. http://www.controlchaos.com/about/value.php

 

• Three extremos - These folks are Ward Cunningham, Kent Beck and Ron Jeffries, who are leading the charge for Extreme Programming. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Cunningham for more info on Ward.

 

• Extreme Project Management - Here is a place to start learning about the ideas from DeCarlo, Thomsett, Highsmith and others. aka Radical Project Management, Agile Project Management. The APLN gets a link in this article! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_project_management

 

• WikiWikiWeb - Every wiki should mention that Ward Cunningham invented the wiki. It is, among many things, a collaboration tool. If you learn to use it well with others, it just might change you. It is also an example of his famous quote: "What's the simplest thing that could possibly work?" Here is a related article: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=2921 See the original wiki (very interesting, lots of agile-related content) here: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?FrontPage

 

• User Stories Applied For Agile Software Development by Mike Cohn. Book. Great book on using user stories, and other topics related to Scrum and XP. See http://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/books.php

 

• Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great by Esther Derby and Diana Larsen. Excellent book on things to do to make retrospectives more productive. Retrospectives are perhaps the key single way to improve a team's productivity.

 

• Agile Project Management with Scrum. By Ken Schwaber. Largely in the form of stories (patterns), with lessons learned. Many people love this way of learning. See the right side of this page: http://www.controlchaos.com/

 

• Agile Software Development with Scrum. By Ken Schwaber and Mike Beedle. This book takes a different approach to explaining Scrum, which other types of people will like. See: Amazon

 

• Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management (Pragmatic Programmers) by Joanna Rothman and Esther Derby. General comments on this subject, but mostly related to Agile management.

 

• Implementing Lean Software Development: From Concept to Cash by Mary & Tom Poppendieck. Their second book. Excellent.

 

• Extreme Programming Explained : Embrace Change (2nd Edition) by Kent Beck and Cynthia Andres. This is one of the definitive books on XP. Someone soon will also add Ron Jeffries' book. See Amazon

 

• Other resources are listed at http://www.kittyhawkconsulting.com/id15.html

 

• Fearless Change: Patterns for Introducing New Ideas by Mary Lynn Manns and Linda Rising. This book presents patterns to help you introduce new ideas to your organization. After offering a possible sequence of how to use the patterns, the 48 patterns are presented.

 

• PatternSummaries3x5Expanded.doc This file contains the 48 patterns from Fearless Change: Patterns for Introducing New Ideas In addition to the pattern summary, I added the problem and essence of the solution. This file is formatted to print on Avery 5388 3x5 card stock. George Dinwiddie took the Pattern Summaries, modified the format to work with single feed 3x5 cards, and has posted Open Office and PDF versions here.

 

• Methods & Tools is a free e-newsletter providing practical knowledge for software development professionals. We cover all aspects of software engineering and regularly publish articles on agile approaches written by agile practitioners.

 

• Agile Articles Links Directory - Agile section of a links directory of articles related to software development.

 

 

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