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GENERAL INFO (Project Management – Agile – Scrum – Lean – Kanban)

• Agile Glossary of Terms - by ASPE
• ScrumAlliance “ScrumHub” Resources
• Agile Checklist - are you doing every you need to?
• Kanban 101 (great introduction, FAQs, how it works, etc….)
• Personal Kanban (learn & use Kanban in your daily life)
• The Agile Project Manager Webinar
• “The Art of Project Management” – by Scott Berkun
• “Becoming Agile in an imperfect world” – Greg Smith and Ahmed Sidky  (if you are transitioning to Agile – great book)
• Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products” – Jim Highsmith
• NEW… BOOK – KANBAN: Successful evolutionary change for your Technology Business – David Andersen
• NEW… BOOK – The Leaders Guide to Radical Management – Stephen Denning
• “Crystal Clear: A Human-Powered Methodology for Small Teams” – by Alistair Cockburn
• “Agile Project Management with Scrum” – by Ken Schwaber
• “Succeeding with Agile” – by Mike Cohn
• “The Enterprise and Scrum” – by Ken Schwaber
• http://www.pmi.org (all kinds of great PM tools)
• http://jeffsutherland.com (Jeff’s BLOG (co-Founder of Scrum)
• http://www.INFOQ.com/ (Publishes many good agile articles)
• http://www.AGILEJOURNAL.com/ - Publishes many good agile articles
• http://www.MARTINFOWLER.com/ – Read The New Methodology and Is Design Dead?
• http://www.agilelogic.com/ – check out their resources section
• http://www.versionone.com/ – agile software tools & resources
• Agile ManifestoPODcast – The PM PODCast
• PODcast – The Agile Business Analyst
• PODcast – Empowering the Agile Team
• Agile 101 – Laying the Foundation for Agile Development
• Agile 101 – Selling Agile: How to Get Buy-in from Your Team, Customers and Managers
• Agile 101 – The Algorithms and Architecture of Agile vs. Traditional Software Development
• Agile 101 – Agile 101: Basic Measurements and Metrics
• Agile 101 – User Story Essentials
• WEBINAR – The Agile PMP: Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks
• WEBINAR – Keeping your Product Backlog Healthy
• WEBINAR – How to Fail When you Scale (with Jeff Sutherland – Founder of Scrum)

IT Specific

• http://www.toolbox.com/ – Whitepapers and other good tools

Certifications

• http://www.pmi.org – Check out PMI’s credentials (ie. PMP)
• http://www.gssolutionsgroup.com/ – check out their 360 training
• http://scrumtraininginstitute.com/classes – ScrumMaster Training by Jeff Sutherland
• http://www.sligerconsulting.com/ – ScrumMaster & Agile PM training
• http://www.agileuniversity.org/ – Scrum certification courses from Rally
• Softwarehttp://www.netobjectives.com/ – Agile certification course for PM, Developers, etc.
• Planning & Requirement Gathering
• TEST – Agile Self Assessment (answer 20 questions and get report back on key themes & ideas on
• improvement)
• “Manage It!: Your Guide to Modern Pragmatic Project Management” – Johanna Rothman
• http://www.ebgconsulting.com -  Ellen Gottesdiener’s Requirement Dev & Mgt site (Free Tools)
• “Agile Estimating and Planning” – Mike Cohn
• “The Software Requirements (Memory Jogger)” – Ellen Gottesdiener
• “Planning Extreme Programming” – Kent Beck, Martin Fowler
• “User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development” – Mike Cohn
• “Requirements by Collaboration: Workshops for Defining Needs” – Ellen Gottesdiener
• “Writing Effective Use Cases” – Alistair Cockburn

Software Development / Extreme Programming

• WHITEPAPER – “Introduction to Agile Software Development” – Collabnet and Victor Szalvay
• http://www.xprogramming.com – Ron Jeffries’ site, XP-oriented but great for agile ideas
• Agile Software Development
• BOOK – “Agile Software Development with Scrum” – Ken Schwaber, Mike Beedle
• BOOK – “Extreme Programming Explained (second edition)” – Kent Beck
• BOOK – “A Practical Guide to Extreme Programming” – David Astels, et al
• BOOK – “Extreme Programming Applied” – Ken Auer, Roy Miller
• BOOK – “Extreme Programming Installed” – Ron Jeffries, Ann Anderson, Chet Hendrickson
• BOOK – “Agile and Iterative Software Development” – Craig Larman
• BOOK – “Integrating Agile Development in the Real World” – Peter Schuh
• BOOK – “Agile Software Development (second edition)” – Alistair Cockburn
• BOOK- “Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit” –Mary & Tom Poppendieck
• BOOK – “Implementing Lean Software Development” – Mary & Tom Poppendieck
• “DSDM: Business Focused Development” – DSDM Consortium, Jennifer Stapleton
• “A Practical Guide to Feature-Driven Development” – Stephen Palmer, John Felsing

Testing

• http://www.junit.org/ – Home for JUnit and testing tools
• BOOK – “FIT for Developing Software” – Rick Mugridge, Ward Cunningham
• BOOK – “Testing Extreme Programming” – Lisa Crispin, Tip House
• BOOK – “Test-Driven Development by Example” – Kent Beck
• BOOK – “Test-Driven Development – A Practical Guide” – David Astels

Refactoring

• http://www.refactoring.com/ – Home for refactoring and tools
• BOOK- “Refactoring” – Martin Fowler
• BOOK – “Refactoring to Patterns” – Joshua Kerievsky
• BOOK – “Domain-Driven Design” – Eric Evans
• BOOK – “Agile Software Development – Principles, Patterns and Practices” – Robert C. Martin
• BOOK- “Working Effectively with Legacy Code” – Michael Feathers
• BOOK – “Agile Database Development”
• BOOK_ “Refactoring Databases: Evolutionary Database Design” – Scott Ambler, Pramod Sadalage

Retrospectives

• BOOK – “Agile Retrospectives – Making Good Teams Great“  – Esther Derby & Diana Larsen

Support

http://www.eclipse.org/ – Eclipse and plug-ins for agile support

SIGs & User Groups

• PMI AGILE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE (WIKI) – http://agile-pm.pbworks.com
• PMI AGILE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE (PMI website) – http://agile.community.pmi.org
• APLN – AGILE PROJECT LEADERSHIP NETWORK -  http://www.APLN.org/localchapters.html
• AGILE ALLIANCE – http://www.agilealliance.org/show/1641
• SCRUM ALLIANCE – http://www.scrumalliance.org
• GOOGLE GROUPS – http://groups.google.com (search for terms like “agile”, “scrum”, “lean”)
• YAHOO GROUPS – http://groups.yahoo.com (search for terms like “agile”, “scrum”, “lean”)
• MEETUP GROUPS – http://www.meetup.com (search for terms like “agile”, “scrum”, “lean”)
• AGILE SOCAL:  http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=1833155&trk=anet_ug_grppro
• AGILE PMP: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=2290566&trk=anet_ug_grppro
• AGILE PROJECT MANAGEMENT:  http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=840&trk=anet_ug_grppro