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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 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
Agile 101 – User Story Essentials
WEBINAR – The Agile PMP: Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks
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 Software http://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

NEW… 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

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