Tag Archives: agile

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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Project Standards

I recently played a leadership role in a project where two of the biggest challenges where the time schedule and the team on boarding.
I hate repeating myself, so after explaining the technology, architectural choices a couple of times I decided to write some kind of document or presentation.
I’ve created a sample document containing for [...]

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Crystal Clear A Human-Powered Methodology for Small Teams

I’ve heard about Crystal for the first time from my former cool colleague Ben Stopford but I never had the chance to read the book, so here I am, this blog post follows the ones about XP and Scrum, I’ll probably read again Lean Software Development and then my revise exercise will be finished (unless [...]

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