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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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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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Planning extreme programming

This weekend I’ve managed to read Planning Extreme Programming by Kent Beck & Martin Fowler, I’ve been rather impressed by the book, the first edition is dated  October 2000 so it’s almost 10 years old now, in this post I’ll share some notes  I’ve taken during the reading, mostly related to the similarities with Scrum.
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When made in Italy is not only fashion

Francesco just published his brand new website about the pomodoro technique and Staffan just published the first draft on the technique of his book.
As an additional coincidence Renzo talked about it at the Software Craftsmanship Meeting. 
All around the world from Sweden to the US it’s all about italian tomatoes!
 

The Pomodoro Technique is a time management method that can [...]

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