Agile Resources

Presentations

• Introduction à l’eXtreme Programming et au développement Agile
  by Gauthier Picard, October 2009
• Essential Scrum - A short introduction to Scrum and its underlying Agile principles.
  by Tobias Mayer, November 2008

Articles and Papers

• The Scrum Primer (v1.2.1)
  by Pete Deemer, Gabrielle Benefield, Craig Larman and Bas Vodde, January 2010.
• How Agile methods resolve chaos and unpredictability in software projects
  by Jack Milunsky (Scrum Master), January 2009
• Distributed Agile Development at Microsoft patterns & practices
  by Ade Miller, October 2008.
• SCRUM Development Process
  by Ken Schwaber, April 1997

Blogs

• Agile Gardener by Tremeur Balbous.
• Agile Trail by Brend Schiffer.
• Agile Warrior.
• Etre Agile by Thierry Cros.
• Extreme Pill by Pascal Pratmarty.
• Ken Schwaber's Blog: Telling It Like It Is
• Control Chaos — Ken Schwaber’s Web site on Scrum.
• Mountain Goat Software by Mike Cohn.
• Scrum: it’s place in the world by Tobias Mayer.

Books

My favourite Agile books are:

• Coaching Agile Teams
  by Lyssa Adkins, June 2010 (1st Ed.)
  Addison-Wesly (ISBN: 978-0-321-63770-3)
• Agile Retrospectives - Making Good Teams Great
  by Esther Derby and Diana Larsen, July 2006
  The Pragmatic Bookshelf (ISBN: 0-9776166-4-9)
• Agile Project Management With Scrum
  by Ken Schwaber, 2004
  Microsoft Press (ISBN: 0-7356-1993-X)
• Agile Software Development with Scrum
  by Ken Schwaber and Mike Beedle, 2002
  Prentice Hall (ISBN: )
• Extreme Programming Explained - Embrace Change
  by Kent Beck, September 1999 (1st Ed.)
  (ISBN: 0-2016164-1-6)

Other Agile books are:

• A Practical Guide to Distributed Scrum
  by Elizabeth Woodward, Steffan Surdek and Matthew Ganis, June 2010 (1st Ed.)
  IBM Press (ISBN: 978-0-13-704113-8)
• Agile Game Development with Scrum
  by Clinton Keith, May 2010 (1st Ed.)
  Addison-Wesley (ISBN: 978-0-321-61852-8)
• The Agile Samurai
  by Jonathan Rasmusson, 2010 (1st Ed.)
  The Pragmatic Programmers (ISBN: 978-1-934356-58-6)
• Succeeding with Agile: Software Development Using Scrum
  by Mike Cohn, January 2010 (2nd Ed.)
  Addison-Wesley (ISBN: 978-0-321-57936-2)
• Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams
  by Lisa Gregory and Janet Crispin, 2009
  Addison-Wesley (ISBN: 978-0321534460)
• Becoming Agile... in an imperfect World
  by Greg Smith and Ahmed Sidky, October 2009 (1st Ed.)
  Manning (ISBN: 978-1-933988-25-2)
• Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products
  by Jim Highsmith, July 2009 (2nd Ed.)
  Addison-Wesley (ISBN: 978-0-321-65839-5)
• Agile Coaching
  by Rachel Sedley and Liz Davies, 2009
  The Pragmatic Programmers (ISBN: 978-1934356432)
• The Art of Agile Development
  by James Shore and Shane Warden, 2007 (1st Ed.)
  O'Reilly (ISBN: 978-0-596-52767-9)
• Scrum and XP from the Trenches
  by Henrik Kniberg, June 2007 (1st Ed.)
  C4Media (ISBN: 978-1-4303-2264-1)
  Also available in french: Scrum et XP depuis les Tranchées
• Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C#
  by Robert C. Martin and Micah Martin, July 20, 2006
  Prentice Hall (ISBN: 978-0-13-185725-4)
• Clean Code - A Handbook of Agile Sofware Craftsmanship
  by Robert C. Martin
  Prentice Hall (ISBN: 978-0132350884)
• Agile Estimating and Planning
  by Mike Cohn, November 2005
  Prentice Hall (ISBN: 978-0131479418)
• Test-Driven Development by Example
  by Kent Beck, 2006
  Addison-Wesley (ISBN: )
• Agile Software Development
  by Alistair Cockburn, October 2001
  Addison-Wesley (ISBN: 978-0201699692)

Tools

• IceScrum.
• ScrumWorks
• TeamCity.