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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
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
2008 APLN Atlanta presentation

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.

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
Innovation Games: Creating Breakthrough Products Through Collaborative Play by Luke Hohmann
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
Managing the Design Factory by Donald G. Reinertsen
Planning Extreme Programming by Kent Beck and Martin Fowler
The Software Project Manager's Bridge to Agility by Michele Sliger and Stacia Broderick
User Stories Applied by Mike Cohn

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