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| 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 |
| 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 |
| Small is Beautiful by Sanjiv Augustine 2006 APLN User Group presentation |
| Transitioning to Agile Project Management by Sanjiv Augustine Agile 2007 conference |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Rally Program & Enterprise Editions | Full Agile life cycle management solutions. |
| 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. |
| Books |
| Recommend a bookLean & Agile Literature |
| Agile and Iterative Development: A Manager’s Guide by Craig Larman |
| Agile Estimating and Planning by Mike Cohn |
| Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products by Jim Highsmith |
Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great by Esther Derby and Diana Larsen |
| Agile Software Development by Alistair Cockburn |
| Agile Software Development with Scrum by Ken Schwaber and Mike Beedle |
| Collaboration Explained by Jean Tabaka |
| Crystal Clear: A Human-Powered Methodology for Small Teams by Alistair Cockburn |
| Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change by Kent Beck |
| Fearless Change by Linda Rising and Mary Lynn Manns |
| Lean Software Development – An Agile Toolkit for Software Development Managers by Mary and Tom Poppendieck |
| Lean Solutions by Jim Womack and Dan Jones |
| Lean Thinking by Jim Womack and Dan Jones |
| Managing Agile Projects by Sanjiv Augustine |
| Planning Extreme Programming by Kent Beck and Martin Fowler |
| User Stories Applied by Mike Cohn |
