Agile

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Agile software development is a conceptual framework for undertaking software engineering projects. There are a number of agile software development methodologies, such as those espoused by the Agile Alliance, a non-profit organization.

Contents 1 Agile Resources 1.1 Articles 1.2 Agile Testing Tools 1.3 Agile Process Tools 1.4 Charts 1.5 Web Sites 1.6 Podcasts 1.7 Discussion Groups 1.8 Scrum Videos 1.9 Research 1.9.1 Books 1.9.2 Publications and Presentations 1.9.3 Websites � Agile topics 1.9.4 Scrum 1.9.5 Websites � authors on Agile topics 1.9.6 Software Engineering Institute (SEI) (http://www.sei.cmu.edu) 1.9.7 Websites and General Agile topics and discussions

Agile Resources

Articles

The order presented is the suggested reading order.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_methods
• An Iteration in the Life of an XP Project
• An Introduction to Agile Methods
• Is Design Dead?
• Case study: Distributed Scrum Project for Dutch Railways
• Inventing and Reinventing Scrum in Five Companies
• Best Practices in Scrum Project Management and XP Agile Software Development
• Taking Projects to the Extreme
• Extreme Programming Agile Project Management
• Using XP in a Big Process Company
• Learning by Doing: Why XP Doesn�t Sell
• The Scrum Software Development Process for Small Teams
• Scrum With XP
• SCRUM Software Development Process Building The Best Possible Software
• The New Methodology
• eXtreme Adoption eXperiences of a B2B Start Up
• A Customer Experience: Implementing XP
• Sabre takes extreme measures
• An Introduction to Agile Methods
• Extreme Programming A Gentle Introduction
• Extreme Success / �If You build It, They Will Come�
• Lessons in Agility from Internet-Based Development
• Best Practices in Scrum Project Management and XP Agile Software Development
• Extreme Programming and Embedded Software Development
• AGILE MEETINGS
• Agile Software Development Methods Review and Analysis
• Agile Requirements Modeling
• Communication
• An Overview of Feature Driven Development
• Feature-Driven Development (FDD)
• Lean Software Development
• Lean Development & the Predictability Paradox
• Lean Programming
• Lean Construction
• Learning to Love Unit Testing
• Exploring Extreme Programming in Context: An Industrial Case Study
• The XP Customer Role in Practice: Three Studies
• Is There Such a Thing as Object Oriented Analysis?
• Scrum On One Page
• XP On One Page
• Pigs and Chickens
• Two Bugs in Two Years
• Two Great Wastes
• Cost of Change Curve
• The Agile Difference for SCM
• Iterative and Incremental Development: A Brief History
• Critical Chain Scheduling
• 10 Evolutionary Project Management (Evo) principles
• Ignore Users To Satisfy Them
• A Psuedo-Serious XP Case Study
• Agile, Top Down - how an executive or highly-placed manager could get Agile going.
• The Roots of Lean
• Stretching Agile to fit CMMI Level 3
• Agile Use Cases
• Are Iterations Hazardous to Your Project?
• A Tiny Technique for Blocked-Task Madness
• A one-day Cooperative Game / Crystal lecture-workshop
• XP Six Sigma CMMI How They Can Work Together - A JPMorgan Chase Case Study
• Architectural Practices Extreme Project Management for Architects
• Scrum Figures
• Tactical Management of Agile Development: Achieving Competitive Advantage
• A CIO�s Playbook for Adopting the Scrum Method of Achieving Software Agility
• Lean Six Sigma
• Lean Production
• Drum-Buffer-Rope
• Variation in Software Engineering
• Systems Thinking
• Principled of Lean Thinking
• How To Compare Six Sigma, Lean and the Theory of Constraints
• Game Development Enters the Scrum
• The XP Game
• Using Customer Tests to Drive Development - This article reports a concrete experience of incorporating customer input in a Test-Driven Development approach.
• Agile Requirements by Rachel Davies - This article explains the approach to handle requirement in agile projects
• Adaptative Project Management Using Scrum - This article provides a basic overview of Scrum, an agile process for managing software development project.
• Adaptative Project Management Using Scrum by Craig Murphy - This article provides a basic overview of Scrum, an agile process for managing software development project.
• The 59-Minute Scrum�Teaching a Group about Scrum Fundamentals using Interactive and Facilitative Approaches
• Scrum from Hell
• Release Planning Party
• User Stories for Agile Requirements
• six attributes of good stories and includes examples:
• Agile Estimating and Planning
• Becoming an Effective Product Owner
• Continuous Integration
• Test-first development with FitNesse
• Agile Work Uses Lean Thinking
• Agile Game Development GDC2006
• Wicked Projects - When you're scrambling to complete a never-ending task and no one can decide
• Compensating a Team
• Why the Three Questions in the Daily Scrum Meeting?
• Interviewing Techniques for Staffing Lean-Agile Teams
• Twenty Ways to Split Stories
• The simplest Sprint Backlog possible!
• Scrum Primer
• The Roots of Scrum Movie
• Ken Schwaber Talk at Google
• Writing Contracts for Agile Development
• XP Planning Game
• Scrum and XP from the Trenches - Lessons learnt after a year of Scrum experimentation with a group of 40 developers. Includes details on how we approached multi-team sprint planning, testing, retrospectives, etc.
• Presentation: Ken Schwaber on Code Quality as a Corporate Asset - The "Canary in a Coalmine" talk. Magic has a cost and it can ruin your company through creating dead core systems.
• Why Good Projects Fail Anyway
• Interview: Ron Jeffries on Running Tested Features - essence of Agile is running tested features.
• Effects of Bias on Creating Poor Schedules
• Movie about Lean by Marry Poppendieck - Competing on the basis of speed. Keep it simple. Make it flawless. Make if flawless. Set-based development.
• A Mix of Agile Videos - by Ron Jeffries, Ken Schwaber, Jeff Sutherland, Mary Poppendick, Lee Copeland, and Elisabeth Hendrickson.
• The �Toyota Way� Is Translated for a New Generation of Foreign Managers
• Minimum Marketable Feature
• Agile Team Performance Reviews
• It's Not Just Standing Up: Patterns of Daily Stand-up Meetings
• Agile Estimation, Mike Cohn, Video of Bay XP Meeting Part 1, Part 2, slides
• Video on Doubling the Value of Automated Tests by Rick Mugridge
• Video on Behavior Driven Development - the step after TDD
• Alistair Cockburn's Top 10 Indications You are Not Agile
• Agile Contract Presentation, paper
• Risk To Pattern Table - fixes for common problems.
• The Origins of Scrum
• Scrum - 40+ page introduction.
• The Pipelining Anti-Pattern
• A Structured Approach to Adopting Agile Practices: The Agile Adoption Framework
• High Moon Studios Agile Game Development Slides and Tutorial
• Video: The Dysfunctional Daily Scrum - very funny
• If Your Daily Scrum is Not Fulfilling�
• Where's the money? - By increasing the process time of a product, and therefore increasing its cost, the weekly profit has almost doubled.
• Alistair Cockburn's Latest Presentation - use video instead of paper

Agile Testing Tools

• StoryTestIQ - a tool for creating "Executable Requirements" which have also been known as acceptance tests or functional tests.
• FitNesse - A simple tool that allows non-technical users to specify and run acceptance tests for software.
• Fit Library - FitLibrary provides general-purpose fixtures (and runners) for storytests with Fit and FitNesse
• FIT - Framework for Integrated Test
• Selenium - a test tool for web applications
• Test Link - MMFs are units of software value creation. They represent components of intrinsic marketable value.
• Video on using FIT by Rick Mugridge
• [Comparative Analysis of Job Satisfaction in Agile and

Non-Agile Software Development Teams | http://sern.ucalgary.ca/melnik/papers/XP2006_GMelnik_FMaurer_revised_final.pdf]

Agile Process Tools

• ScrumWorks - an Agile process automation tool that enables teams to self-organize and maximize productivity.
• Project Cards - This project planning software provides an enabling tool for Agile Project Management.
• Card Meeting - The innovative tool for long-distance collaboration.

Charts

• Example Burn Down Chart
• Agile Charts
• Earned-value and burn charts
• Charting Change
• Big Visible Carts
• Five Signs of Trouble in an Iteration
• Release Burn Down Chart

Web Sites

• Agile Manifesto
• Mountain Goat Software Presentations
• Agile Alliance
• Extreme Programming
• Agile Modeling
• http://www.xpuniverse.com/
• http://www.objectmentor.com/resources/articles
• http://www.xprogramming.com
• Extreme Programming Roadmap
• http://www.testdriven.com
• Many Agile Papers
• http://www.poppendieck.com/
• http://www.controlchaos.com
• http://www.xbreed.net/
• http://www.dsdm.org
• http://www.adaptivesd.com/
• Agile Alliance Library
• Agile Testing
• Testing Lessons
• Software Testing Hotlist
• Agile Offshore References
• The Roots of Scrum - How Japanese Lean Manufacturing Changed Global Software Development Practices
• Task Board Layout
• Agile Work Uses Lean Thinking
• Planning Poker - Play. Plan. Estimate.

Podcasts

• Mike Cohn Podcast On Agile Estimating and Planning
• SCRUM Introduction Part 1, [Part 2 |

http://podcast.xebia.com/293E0F64-4EF3-477C-8AB0-22FECEF23302.html]

Discussion Groups

• Scrum http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scrumdevelopment
• Extreme Programming http://groups.yahoo.com/group/extremeprogramming/
• Refactoring http://groups.yahoo.com/group/refactoring
• http://groups.google.com/groups?group=comp.software.extreme-programming
• http://groups.google.com/groups?group=comp.object
• http://c2.com/cgi/wiki
• http://www.xp123.com
• Jeff Sutherland's Scrum Blog
• http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agile-usability/
• http://www.testing.com/cgi-bin/blog
• http://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/agileplanning/

Scrum Videos

• Scrum Tuning: Lessons learned from Scrum implementation... by Jeff Sutherland
• Scrum et al. by Ken Schwaber
• The Roots of Scrum by Jeff Sutherland
• Planning and Maintaining the Rhythm of Distributed Scrum by Guy Pshigoda & Hubert Smits
• Jeff Sutherland on Scrum and Not-Scrum

Research

Books

• http://www.jeckstein.de/agilebook - Agile Software Development in the Large is a collection of best practices that should be applied to any large agile, for example Extreme Programming (XP) project.
• Barry Boehm and Richard Turner
  • �Balancing Agility and Discipline: A Guide for the Perplexed�, Addison Wesley, 2003
• Christopher A. Alexander
  • �The Timeless Way of Building�, Oxford University Press, New York, 1979
  • �A Pattern Language�, Oxford University Press, New York, 1977
• Ed Yourdon
  • �Death March Projects�, Prentice Hall, 1997
• Jim Collins
  • �Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make The Leap�and Others Don�t�, HarperCollins, Oct. 2001
• Jim Highsmith
  • �Adaptive Software Development: A Collaborative Approach to Managing Complex Systems�, Dorset House, 2000
• Ken Schwaber and Mike Beedle (foreword by Martin Fowler)
  • �Agile Software Development with SCRUM�, Prentice Hall, October 2001
• Kent Beck
  • �Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change�, Addison Wesley, 2000
• Martin Fowler, Kent Beck, John Brant, William Opdyke, Don Roberts
  • �Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code�, Addison-Wesley, 1999
• Robert Martin, Timothy R. Lister, Tom DeMarco
  • �Measuring and Managing Performance in Organizations�, Dorset House, June 1996
• Watts S. Humphrey
  • �A Discipline for Software Engineering�, Addison Wesley, 1995, 12th printing (July 2002)
  • �Introduction to the Personal Software Process�, Addison Wesley, 1997
  • �Introduction to the Team Software Process�, Addison Wesley, 2000
  • �Winning With Software�, Addison Wesley, 2002
• Applying User Stories, Mike Cohn
• Agile Estimating and Planning, Mike Cohn
• Collaboration Explained, Jean Tabaka
• Lean Software Development, Mary Poppendieck
• Agile Project Management - Jim Highsmith
• Agile Project Management with Scrum - Ken Schwaber
• Managing Agile Projects - Sanjiv Augustine
• FIT for Developing Software - Rick Mugridge, Ward Cunningham
• Agile and Iterative Development - Craig Larman
• Domain Driver Design: Tackling Complexity at the Heart of Software - Eric Evans
• Working Effectively with Legacy Code - Michael Feathers
• Refactoring to Patterns - Joshua Kerievsky
• Fearless Change: Patterns for Introducing New Ideas, Linda Rising
• Product Development for the Lean Enterprise - Michael Kennedy
• Project Retrospectives: A Handbook for Team Review - Norm Kerth
• Agile Retrospectives - Ester Derby

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Publications and Presentations

• Alistair Cockburn, Characterizing People as Non-Linear, First-Order Components In Software Development, 4th International Multi-Conference on Systems, Cybernetics and Informatics, Orlando, Florida, June 2000, http://alistair.cockburn.us/crystal/articles/cpanfocisd/characterizingpeopleasnonlinear.html
• Alistair Cockburn and Jim Highsmith;Agile Software Development: The People Factor;, IEEE Computer, Nov. 2001, http://www.jimhighsmith.com/articles/IEEEArticle2Final.pdf
• Barry Boehm, USC-CSE;Agile and Plan-Driven Methods / Oil and Water?;, Agile Universe 2002; slide 28;Reflections on the Agile Manifesto;, http://www.agilealliance.com/articles/articles/agileAndPlanDrivenMethods.pdf
• Barry Boehm and Richard Turner;Rebalancing Your Organization;s Agility and Discipline;, XP Universe 2003
• Christina Wallin, Fredrik Ekdahl, Stig Larsson;Integrating Business and Software Development Models;, IEEE Software, Nov/Dec 2002
• Cutter IT Journal;The Great Methodologies Debate;, Vol. 14 No. 12 http://www.cutter.com/freestuff/itj0112.html
• David Webb and Watts Humphrey, "Using TSP on the TaskView Project", in CrossTalk, The Journal of Defense Software Engineering, Feb 1999, pp. 3-10, online at http://www.stsc.hill.af.mil/crosstalk/frames.asp?uri=1999/02/webb.asp
• Donald Reifer;How to get the Most out of Extreme Programming/Agile Methods, 2nd XP and 1st Agile Universe Conference, 2002, LNCS Vol. 2418, Jan. 2002, pp. 185-196, http://www.springerlink.com/link.asp?id=wa2fdb2ddfml962b
• Edward Berard;Misconceptions of the Agile Zealots;, http://www.toa.com/shnn?searticles (The Object Agency)
• Eric Steven Raymond (open source);The Cathedral and the Bazaar, http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/
• Georg Gretter, Stefan Ferber, Michael Neumann, Der Persnliche Softwareprozess: Konzepte, Ehrfahrungen, Und Synergien mit XP, http://www.sigs.de/publications/os/2002/06/gruetter_OS_06_02.pdf, ObjektSpectrum 06/2002
• Georg Grtter, Stefan Ferber, The Personal Software Process in Practice: Experience in Two Cases over Five Years, Software Quality - ECSQ 2002, 7th International Conference, Helsinki 2002
• Booch/Martin/Newkirk, Object Oriented Analysis and Design With Applications, chapter 4 draft at http://www.objectmentor.com/publications/RUPvsXP.pdf (dX; also source of Stroustrup quote)
• Hillel Glazer, http://www.stsc.hill.af.mil/crosstalk/2001/11/glazer.html, Dispelling The Process Myth: Having a Process Does Not Mean Sacrificing Agility or Creativity
• J. Sterling Livingston, "Pygmalion in Management, reprinted in January 2003 issue of Harvard Business Review, cited in http://www.dhemery.com/journal/archives/2003-06/the_benefits_of_failure.html
• Jim Highsmith, "Adaptive Software Development Process Framework," 2/21/2001, http://crystalmethodologies.org/processes/asd/asdprocess.ppt
• Jim Over/SEI, Launching a TSP Project - The TSP Launch Process, TSP2001.04
• Larissa Moss, Business Intelligence Methodologies: Agile With Rigor?, Cutter IT Journal, Vol. 14 No. 12, http://www.cutter.com/freestuff/itj0112d.html
• Laurie Williams, The Collaborative Software Process, PhD dissertation, University of Utah, August 2000, http://www.cs.utah.edu/lwilliam/Papers/dissertation.pdf
• Larry Constantine, editor of Software Development Magazine Management Forum, intro to Beyond Optimizing, Sept. 1999
• Linda Rising and Norman Janoff, The SCRUM Software Development Process for Small Teams, IEEE Software, July/August 2000, available online at http://members.cox.net/risingl1/articles/IEEEScrum.pdf
• Martin Fowler, http://www.sdmagazine.com, Put Your Process on a Diet, Dec. 2000,
• Noopur Davis and Julia Mullaney, The Team Software ProcessSM (TSPSM) in Practice: A Summary of Recent Results, CMU/SEI-2003-TR-014, Sept. 2003, available on the SEI website
• Robert L. Glass, Agile Versus Traditional: Make Love, Not War!, Cutter IT Journal, Vol. 14 No. 12, http://www.cutter.com/freestuff/itj0112c.html
• Roy W. Miller, http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-xp0910.html, Demystifying Extreme Programming: "XP distilled" revisited, Part 2
• Russell Kay, Quickstudy: System Development Life Cycle, http://www.computerworld.com/developmenttopics/development/story/0,10801,71151,00.html
• VTT, Agile Software Development Methods, Sept. 2002, http://www.inf.vtt.fi/pdf/
• Watts S. Humphrey, The Team Software ProcessSM (TSPSM ), Nov. 2000, CMU/SEI-2000-TR-023, available on the SEI website
• William A. Wood and William L. Kleb
  • Extreme Programming in a Research Environment, XP/Agile Universe 2002, LNCS 2418, pp. 89-99, 2002
  • Exploring XP for Scientific Research, IEEE Software, vol. 20, pp. 30-36, May-June 2003

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Websites � Agile topics

• The Agile Alliance (http://www.AgileAlliance.org/home, also .com)
  • http://www.agilealliance.org/programs/roadmaps/Roadmap/index.htm
  • Everette R. Keith, http://www.agilealliance.com/articles/articles/ADifferentApproach.pdf,
    Agile Software Development Processes- A Different Approach to Software Design�
• The Agile Manifesto
  • http://www.agilemanifesto.org/
  • Twelve Principles http://www.agilemanifesto.org/principles.html
• The Agile Movement
  • http://www.agilemovement.org/
• Crystal Methodologies
  • http://www.crystalmethodologies.org - see Alistair Cockburn
  • http://alistair.cockburn.us/crystal/wiki/TitleIndex
• Lean Software Development
  • http://www.leanprogramming.com/
  • http://www.poppendieck.com/, Mary & Tom Poppendieck
• Scrum Alliance
  • The SCRUM Development Process http://www.controlchaos.com/
• XP (eXtreme Programming)
  • http://www.extremeprogramming.org/ - A Gentle Introduction
  • http://www.extremeprogramming.org/rules.html
  • http://www.xprogramming.com/
  • http://www.extremeprogramming.org/rules/planninggame2.html
  • http://www.xprogramming.com/Practices/justrule.htm, Ron Jeffries
  • http://www.xprogramming.com/SD2000Class/sld025.htm , Ron Jeffries
  • List of XP links http://ootips.org/xp.html#links

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Scrum

• http://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/presentations.php - good overview presentations
• scrum

Websites � authors on Agile topics

• Alistair Cockburn, http://alistair.cockburn.us
  • http://alistair.cockburn.us/crystal/crystal.html, Crystal Methodologies
  • http://alistair.cockburn.us/crystal/articles/jmc/justintimemethodologyconstruction.html, �Just In Time Methodology Construction�
  • http://alistair.cockburn.us/crystal/articles/mpp/methodologyperproject.html, �A Methodology Per Project�
• Laurie Williams, http://collaboration.csc.ncsu.edu/laurie/
• Mike Beedle, http://www.agilescrum.com and http://www.xbreed.net
• Martin Fowler, http://martinfowler.com/articles/newMethodology.html, �Should you go agile?�
• Dale H. Emery, �Conversations With Dale: The Benefits of Failure�, http://www.dhemery.com/journal/archives/2003-06/the_benefits_of_failure.html

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Software Engineering Institute (SEI) (http://www.sei.cmu.edu)

• http://www.sei.cmu.edu/tsp/
• http://seir.sei.cmu.edu - Software Engineering Information Repository

Websites and General Agile topics and discussions

• actiF http://www.microtool.de/process/en/actif_extreme.asp (process and tool)
• Wikipedia Extreme Programming http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_Programming
• The C2 Wiki:
  • http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?AgileRevolution, Mike Beedle
  • http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?AgileAndTspDiscussion
  • http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ExtremeProgrammingPractices
  • http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ExtremePspExperience, Marnix Klooster (Netherlands)
  • http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ExtremeRoles
  • http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ExtremeUnifiedProcess
  • http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?HighDisciplineMethodology
  • http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?MartialArtsAsSoftwareDevelopmentMetaphor, Walden Mathews
  • http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?MethodologicalPluralism, Paul Feyerabend
  • http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?PainlessSoftwareSchedules
  • http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?PairProgrammingCostsBenefits, also see Laurie Williams doctoral thesis
  • http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ReleasePlan
  • http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?SixSigmaDiscussion
  • http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ToddPasley, thesis
  • http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?XpIsHeavyWeight