CHAPTER 8: MORE INFORMATION ON AGILE

The following are general, methodology-specific, and practice-specific Agile sources you can refer to for further information:

General information on Agile

•Agile Alliance: www.agilealliance.org

•Agile – An Executive Guide, second edition, Jamie Lynn Cooke, IT Governance Publishing (2016): www.itgovernancepublishing.co.uk/product/agile-an-executive-guide

•Agile Connection: www.agileconnection.com

•AgileKiwi – Practical Agile software development: www.agilekiwi.com

•Agile Manifesto: http://agilemanifesto.org/

•Fundamentals of Agile Project Management: An Overview (Technical Manager’s Survival Guides), Marcus Goncalves and Raj Heda, ASME Press (2010)

•www.amazon.com/fundamentals-Agile-project-management-technical/dp/0791802965/

•Everything you want to know about Agile, Jamie Lynn Cooke, IT Governance Publishing (2012): www.itgovernanceusa.com/shop/product/everything-you-want-to-know-about-agile

Specific Agile methodologies and practices

Overview

•A Practical Guide to Seven Agile Methodologies, Rod Coffin and Derek Lane.

Part one: www.devx.com/architect/Article/32761/

Part two: www.devx.com/architect/Article/32836/

Scrum

•Scrum Alliance: www.scrumalliance.org

•The Scrum Guide: www.scrumalliance.org/learn-about-scrum/the-scrum-guide

•Scrum and Agile presentations by Mike Cohn of Mountain Goat Software (various dates): www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/blog/tag/presentations

DSDM

•What is DSDM?, Marc Clifton and J. Dunlap (2003): www.codeproject.com/Articles/5097/What-Is-DSDM

•The DSDM Agile Project Framework (2014 Onwards): www.agilebusiness.org/resources/dsdm-handbooks/the-dsdm-agile-project-framework-2014-onwards

FDD™

•Feature-Driven Development: An Overview: www.tarrani.net/mike/docs/fddoverview.pdf

•Feature-Driven Development (FDD) and Agile Modeling, Scott Ambler: www.agilemodeling.com/essays/fdd.htm

Lean

•Lean Primer, Craig Larman C and Bas Vodde (2009): www.leanprimer.com/downloads/lean_primer.pdf

•Leading Lean Software Development: Results Are Not the Point, Mary and Tom Poppendieck (2009): www.amazon.com/Leading-Lean-Software-Development-Results/dp/0321620704

XP

•Extreme Programming: A gentle introduction: www.extremeprogramming.orgg

Kanban and Scrumban

•Kanban: www.crisp.se/gratis-material-och-guider/kanban

•Kanban and Scrum – Making the Most of Both, Henrik Kniberg and Mattias Skarin (2009): www.infoq.com/minibooks/kanban-scrum-minibook

•Scrum-ban: http://leansoftwareengineering.com/ksse/scrum-ban/

•Scrumban – Essays on Kanban Systems for Lean Software Development, Corey Ladas, Modus Cooperandi Press (2009): www.amazon.com/Scrumban-Systems-Software-Development-Cooperandi/dp/0578002140

•Scrumban: Taking Scrum outside [its] comfort zone: www.slideshare.net/yyeret/scrumban-taking-scrum-outside-its-comfort-zone

Rational Unified Process

•What Is the Rational Unified Process?: www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/library/content/RationalEdge/jan01/WhatIstheRationalUnifiedProcessJan01.pdf

Agile Unified Process

•The Agile Unified Process (AUP): www.ambysoft.com/unifiedprocess/agileUP.html

Crystal

•Crystal methodologies: http://alistair.cockburn.us/crystal+methodologies

Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe)

•SAFe: www.scaledagileframework.com

•Introducing the scaled agile framework: www.cio.com/article/2936942/enterprise-software/introducing-the-scaled-agile-framework.html

Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS)

•Introduction to LeSS: http://less.works/less/framework/introduction.html

Nexus

•The Nexus™ Guide: www.scrum.org/resources/nexus-guide

Scrum of Scrums

•Agile Can Scale: Inventing and Reinventing SCRUM in Five Companies: http://static1.1.sqspcdn.com/static/f/447037/6486358/1270929593650/Sutherland+200111+proof.pdf

Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD)

•The Disciplined Agile (DA) Framework: www.disciplinedagiledelivery.com/agility-at-scale/disciplined-agile-2/

Behavior Driven Development (BDD)

•Behavior Driven Development (BDD): www.agilealliance.org/glossary/bdd

•Introducing BDD: https://dannorth.net/introducing-bdd/

Industry research on Agile

•The 12th Annual State of Agile™ Report: http://stateofagile.versionone.com/

Selected Agile case studies

•Agile Coaching in British Telecom, Linsley Meadows and Sean Hanly (2006): www.agileconnection.com/article/agile-coaching-british-telecom

•Rolling Out Agile in a Large Enterprise, Gabrielle Benefield, Proceedings of the 41st Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (2008): http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1334591

•5 Success Stories That Will Make You Believe in Scaled Agile: www.objectstyle.com/agile/scaled-agile-success-story-lessons