Kane Mar

Sometimes its useful to have a list of useful and informative sites, books and articles. This isn’t meant to be an exhaustive list, but rather a place to start and perhaps come back to. I’ve learnt a lot from all these books, but if I were to list my top five favourites they would be: “Secrets of Consulting”, “Agile software development with Scrum”, “Lean software development”, “User Stories Applied” and “Maverick”.

Online videos:

• Scrum, by Ken Schwaber.
• Competing on the basis of Speed, by Mary Poppendieck.
• The Role of Leadership in Software Development, by Mary Poppendieck.

Useful websites and mailing lists:

• The Agile Manifesto and its principles: http://agilemanifesto.org
• A good retrospectives group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/retrospectives/
 
• ScrumDevelopment: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scrumdevelopment/ 

General Books:

• “Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully” Gerald Weinberger
• “Maverick” by Ricado Semler
• “Peopleware : Productive Projects and Teams, 2nd Ed.” by Tom Demarco and Timothy Lister
• “Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency” by Tom DeMarco

Scrum, Lean and Extreme Programming books:

• “Agile Software Development with SCRUM” by Ken Schwaber
• “Agile Project Management with Scrum” by Ken Schwaber
• “User Stories Applied” by Mike Cohn.
• “Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products” by Jim Highsmith.
• “Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit for Software Development Managers” by Mary Poppendieck and Tom Poppendieck
• “Artful Making” by Lee Devin & Rob Austin.
• “The Pragmatic Programmer” by Hunt and Thomas, Addison Wesley, 2001
• “Agile & Iterative Development: A Manager’s Guide” by Craig Larman
• “Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change” by Kent Beck.
• “Test Driven Development” by Kent Beck
• “Test Driven Development in Microsoft .Net” by James W. Newkirk and Alexei A. Vorontsov
• “Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great” by Esther Derby.