Articles:
Agile overview
- Business case for agility - Alan Shalloway
- History of the agile manifesto - Jim Highsmith
- Seven properties of highly successful teams - Alistair Cockburn
- The New Methodology - Martin Fowler
- A/B Testing (an example) - 37Signals
- Design The Box - Design Games
- Definition of Ready - Ken Power
- Inclusive Modeling - Scott Ambler
- Paper prototyping - Carolyn Snyder
- Personas - Scott Ambler
- Planning Poker (agile estimating) - Mike Cohn
- Project Vision - James Shore
- Release Planning - Simon Baker
- Silent Grouping Technique (agile estimating for large backlogs) - Ken Power
- Slicing User Stories (hamburger technique) - Gojko Adzic
- How to Split a User Story (flowchart) - Richard Lawrence
- User Interface Prototypes - Scott Ambler
- User Stories - Scott Ambler
- User Stories (INVEST model) - Bill Wake
- User Stories and Silent Brainstorming - Lyssa Adkins
- User Story Mapping - Jeff Patton
- User Story Mapping - how to create one - Steve Rogalsky
- User Scenarios - Jeff Patton
- UX Design Studio - Steve Rogalsky
- Agile Testing - Janet Gregory
- Agile Testing - Lisa Crispin
- Agile Testing - Alan Shalloway (The role of QA in Lean Agile)
- Agile Testing is a Whole Team Activity - Elisabeth Hendrickson
- Continuous Deployment - Timothy Fritz of IMVU (deploying 50x / day)
- Definition of Done - Scrum Alliance
- Integrating UX and Agile - Jeff Gothelf
- Iterative vs. Incremental Development - Steve Rogalsky
- Kanban story - Henrik Kniberg
- Kanban in an Operations team - David j. Anderson
- Osmotic Communication - Alistair Cockburn
- Paired Programming - C2 Wiki
- Reflection Workshop - Alistair Cockburn
- Retrospectives - a collection of articles captured by Bachan Anand
- Retrospectives - Slideshare presentation by Esther Derby
- Retrospectives (starfish) - Interesting variation by Nick Oostvogel
- Stand-ups - Mike Cohn
- What is kanban? - Kanban 101
- Specification by Example - A love story by Alistair Scott
- Velocity - Version One
- What is Agile Testing Anyways? - Chapter 1 of Agile Testing
Agile Management:
Here are a few articles about agile management or management influenced by agile:
Here are a few articles about agile management or management influenced by agile:
- Achieving Agility - Esther Derby
- Agile in Management and Leadership - Alistair Cockburn
- Agile Metrics - Elisabeth Hendrickson
- Beyond Budgeting - The Statoil Story - Bjarte Bogsnes
- Leaders are Master Learners - Bret L. Simmons
- 'Our attitudes as leaders should be “these employees of mine are way smarter than me. I am a student of the potential of their behavior, and I could spend a lifetime learning how to better partner with them to create an organization where we, our customers, and our community can all thrive'
- Self Organizing Teams - Esther Derby
- Self Organizing Teams - Jeremy Miller
- Why Can't the C-Suite Grasp Agile? - Steven Denning
- Top 12 agile podcasts - blog post by Steve Rogalsky
Videos:
I have created a playlist on youtube of some of my favourites including:
- Drive - The surprising truth about what motivates us - Dan Pink
- Lean Startup 101 - Hacker Chick
- Lean
- Personas - A great example of how to use them from the U of Pitt
- Planning Poker (agile estimating) - explained by Mike Cohn
- The Elephant in the Room - Appraisals and Compensation - Mary Poppendieck
Books:
Agile
- About Face 3 - Alan Cooper (2007)
- Agile Estimating and Planning - Mike Cohn (2005)
- Agile Testing - Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory (2009)
- Coaching Agile Teams - Lyssa Adkins (2010)
- Lean Software Development - Tom and Mary Poppendieck (2003)
- Lean Startup - Eric Ries (2011)
- LiftOff: Launching Agile Teams & Projects - Larsen and Nies (2011)
- The Art of Agile Development - James Shore and Shane Warden (2008)
- User Stories Applied - Mike Cohn (2004)
- User Story Mapping - Jeff Patton (2012)
- Mary Poppendieck's reading list
- 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Steven Covey (1999)
- Crucial Conversations and Crucial Confrontations - Kerry Patterson et al (2004)
- Fearless Change - Manns and Rising (2004)
- Influencer: The Power to Change Anything - Kerry Patterson et al (2007)
- Lean Solutions - Womack and Jones (2005)
- Start With Why - Simon Sinek (2011)
- Switch - How to Change Things When Change is Hard - Chip and Dan Heath (2010)
- The Goal - Eliyahu M. Goldratt (2004)
