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This pragmatic book guides organizations towards adoption of Agile methods by illustrating where they differ from traditional approaches, and presenting a few targeted strategies for leading change. |
This article presents a roadmap distilling six core steps for migrating from plan-driven management (PDM) to agile project management (APM) and illustrating how they're manifested in successful projects today. |
A guide to combining Agile project delivery at the project level with Lean thinking at the portfolio level in order to significantly increase project throughput, financial performance and business sponsor satisfaction. |
This webinar discusses what metrics are most appropriate for Agile management at the customer, portfolio and project levels. |
This webinar discusses how Agile PMOs are being applied in the industry to scale Scrum through adaptive governance of programs and portfolios. |
| Articles & Presentations |
| Recommend an articleArticles |
| 5Qs on Agile (opinions by many prominent Agile industry veterans) |
| Agile Tool Evaluator Guide by VersionOne |
| 2006 Agile Tooling Survey by Pete Behrens |
| Agile Project Management: Emergent Order through Visionary Leadership by Sanjiv Augustine |
| Agile Project Management: Steering from the Edges by Sanjiv Augustine |
| Getting Started with Agile Delivery by Sanjiv Augustine |
| Global Agile Survey by VersionOne (note: registration required) |
| One Page Introduction to Agile by Sanjiv Augustine |
| So, How's that Agile Initiative Doing? by Sanjiv Augustine |
| State of Agile Survey by VersionOne |
| The Lean-Agile PMO: Using Lean-Thinking to Accelerate Agile Delivery by Sanjiv Augustine and Roland Cuellar |
| The New Methodology by Martin Fowler |
| Recommend a presentationPresentations |
| Agile Metrics by Roland Cuellar 2008 APLN User Group presentation |
Advanced Tools for the Agile Product Owner by Arlen Bankston |
| Transitioning to Agile Project Management by Sanjiv Augustine Agile 2007 conference |
| Small is Beautiful by Sanjiv Augustine 2006 APLN User Group presentation |
| Tools & Templates | |
| Recommend a toolAgile Project Management Tools | |
| AgileTrack (free) | Inexpensive Agile development tracking tool. |
| Tackle (free) | Web-based scrum tracking site to help manage small and large teams. |
| Rally Community Edition (free) | Free 10-seat subscription to Rally's Agile life cycle management solutions. |
| VersionOne Community Edition (free) | VersionOne’s fully featured product, , free for up to 5 users. |
| XPlanner (free) | Project planning and tracking tool for eXtreme Programming (XP) teams. |
| ExtremePlanner | Browser-based Agile project management solution for modern software development teams that work from different locations. |
| Hansoft | Agile project production management tool focused around collaboration support. |
| GreenHopper | JIRA-based Agile project management tool with highly intuititive user interface. |
| Mingle | Supports software delivery by providing the whole team with a single place to share all project output. |
| ProjectCards | Lightweight, collaborative Agile project management tool. |
| Rally Program & Enterprise Editions | Full Agile life cycle management solutions. |
| ScrumDesk | Agile project management tool focused on simple usage and distributed teams. |
| ScrumWorks | Scrum project management tool. Basic edition is free. |
| Serena Business Mashups | Workflow management tool with customizable process engine and extensions. |
| TargetProcess | Intuitive and customizable Agile project management platform. |
| TinyPM | Focused on supporting agile teams using iterative development, user stories, story points, task board. |
| TriChord | Agile project management tool that tracks project Time, Task & Team status using a Lean-style Kanban Board. |
| VersionOne | Project planning and management tool designed specifically for agile software development. |
| Recommend a toolAgile Software Development Tools | |
| Eclipse IDE (free) | Open development platform comprised of extensible frameworks, tools and runtimes for building, deploying and managing software. |
| Fitnesse (free) | Fully integrated standalone wiki, and acceptance testing framework. |
| JUnitDoclet (free) | Generates skeletons of TestCases based on your application source code. |
| JUnit (free) | Java unit testing framework. |
| NUnit (free) | .Net unit testing framework. |
| Visual Studio Team System | Microsoft Solution Frameworks (MSFs) customized for various flavors of Agile are available for Visual Studio. |
| Recommend a templateAgile Templates & Examples | |
| Simple Product Backlog | A simple Scrum Product Backlog template with Release Plan, Sprint/Iteration Backlog & Burndown chart. |
| Analytic Hierarchy Process Worksheet | Pairwise ranking & comparison tool to determine relative importance of items in a set (e.g. users, goals, features). |
| Agile Testing Processes | Overview of how various sorts of testing might work in Agile projects. |
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