Tag Archives: Lean

A very long list of Agile, Lean & C. books

I’ve used to have this list on a Google Spreadsheet, it took me quite a while to sort it (the first 3-5 books for each category are more essential than the others) and place the links, but here it is, more than sixty agile-related books!
Agile Process

User Stories Applied by Mike Cohn
Agile Estimating and Planning by [...]

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Kanban with Pomodoro, it’s like spaghetti with sushi but it might work

I’ve read a couple of tweets today (demonstrating that Twitter perhaps sometimes makes sense)  and I’m aggregating them here:
Jason Yip twitted a link to this short, clever blog post from Matt Wynne defining kanban:

There are no iterations: only now. Work at a pace you can truly sustain.
Done means it is in the user’s hands. Nothing [...]

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Observational learning in teams

On wikipedia there’s an amazing page about learning, and I’m more than anything else interested in the Observational learning.
Learning is the acquisition and development of memories and behaviors, including skills, knowledge, understanding, values, and wisdom. It is the goal of education, and the product of experience.
Why Observational learning? Pairing in an XP team is the [...]

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Some stuff you might try in your team

In the team we are used to be Agile, and especially what I call being Agile doing Agile stuff. Which means being not dogmatic: stop doing a practice when it does not give us enough value and starting it again when we feel that we are missing it. Not only: we also try always to [...]

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