RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Essential Skills and Topics
Technical / Developer Topics
Agile Management / Lean Product Development Topics
Theory and Advanced Topics
Miscellaneous / Other Topics
DISCUSSION GROUPS
Scrum Development This is the place to ask questions and hear from others who have run into the same kind of problems. Try not to be put off by the volume of emails, you’ll no doubt find ways to filter appropriately over time.
Extreme Programming Discussion on Extreme Programming, Agile Methods, software development practices, and related topics. Not just for XP practitioners.
Agile Usability This group is aimed at writers, designers, interaction analysts, etc.
Agile Testing For testers, and anyone interested in testing. Again lots of traffic.
Retrospectives The retrospectives group, for those interested in exploring this specific issue in more depth.
ARTICLES AND TOPICS OF INTEREST
Agile Contracting
– Alistair Cockburn
– Jeff Sutherland
– Kent Beck
– Contracts Working Group
– Contracts Working Group
– Peter Stevens – Cutter Consortium
– Peter Stevens
– Certified Scrum Master Exam Guide
– ‘Scrum and Not Scrum’ An InfoQ interview Jeff Sutherland
– A Scrum Master’s Checklist
– Running Tested Features and Technical Debt; Ron Jeffries
– The Manager’s Role in Agile
– Want Better Software? Just Ask
– Prioritizing Your Product Backlog
– The Road from Project Manager to Agile Coach part 1; part 2
BLOGS AND WEB SITES
– The Agile Executive
– Agile and Business
– A Deep Dive into Agile
– Leading Answers
– The Art of Agile
– Agile Blog
– The Scrum Alliance
– The Agile Project Leadership Network
– The Agile Alliance
– Control Chaos (Ken Schwaber)
– Jeff Sutherland
– Mike Cohn’s introduction to Scrum
– Agile Manifesto
– Principles of the Agile Manifesto
– Agile Thinking – Tobias Mayer
– Agile Anarchy – Tobias Mayer
– Mike Vizdos’ agile cartoons
– Lyssa Adkins
