RESOURCES

(ie. Websites – Books – Webinars – PODcasts – User Groups – etc….)

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

NEW TOOL…. Agile Glossary of Terms - by ASPE

“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)

NEW BOOK…. “Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products” – Jim Highsmith

“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

NEW TOOL …. Agile Checklist - are you doing every you need to?
NEW WEB SITE … Kanban 101 (great introduction, FAQs, how it works, etc….)
NEW WEBINAR … Personal Kanban (learn Kanban use in your daily life – do more than you ever thought you could)

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

Certification

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

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 & Mgmt 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

http://www.xprogramming.com – Ron Jeffries’ site, XP-oriented but great for agile ideas
Agile Software Development
“Agile Software Development with Scrum” – Ken Schwaber, Mike Beedle
“Extreme Programming Explained (second edition)” – Kent Beck
“A Practical Guide to Extreme Programming” – David Astels, et al
“Extreme Programming Applied” – Ken Auer, Roy Miller
“Extreme Programming Installed” – Ron Jeffries, Ann Anderson, Chet Hendrickson
“Agile and Iterative Software Development” – Craig Larman
“Integrating Agile Development in the Real World” – Peter Schuh
“Agile Software Development (second edition)” – Alistair Cockburn
“Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit” –Mary & Tom Poppendieck
“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
“FIT for Developing Software” – Rick Mugridge, Ward Cunningham
“Testing Extreme Programming” – Lisa Crispin, Tip House
“Test-Driven Development by Example” – Kent Beck
“Test-Driven Development – A Practical Guide” – David Astels

Refactoring

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

Support

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

SIGs & User Groups  (local & online)

PMI AGILE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE (WIKI) – http://agile-pm.pbworks.com
PMI AGILE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE (PMI website) – http://agile.community.pmi.org
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
YAHOO GROUPS – http://groups.yahoo.com
MEETUP GROUPS – http://www.meetup.com