Agile Reference Articles
This is a list of articles that we used to recommend in our training classes and coaching engagements. Last updated in 2020.
Scrum
- Scrum Companion by Brown
- Scrum Guide
- Is Scrum the Best Agile Framework?
- Is Scrum the Best Choice for Any Kind of Work?
- State of Agile Development 2017 by Version One
- Agile Development: Mainstream Adoption has Changed Agility by Forrester
- The Business Case for Agility by Rudd
- How Agile Projects Measure Up and What This Means to You by Mah
- How to Convince Your CFO to Use Scrum by Van de Nieuwenhof
- Agile Transition 1: It takes more than Training by Brown
- Agile Transition 2: Success Factors by Brown
- Agile Transition by Tomasini and Kearns
- 11 Ways Agile Adoptions Fail by Tabaka
- Patterns of Agile Adoption by Cohn
- A Tour of Agile Adoption and Transformation Models by Sahota
- Agile Development: A Manager’s Roadmap for Success by Version One
- A CIO’s Playbook for Adopting the Scrum Method of Achieving Software Agility by Leffingwell and Smits
- When Agile Success is Eventually a Failure by Hazrati
- Train Wreck Management by Poppendieck
- Crisp Transforming the Pyramid to an Agile Organization
- Principles of Agile Organizations
- Characteristics of Agile Organizations
- Leaders Guide to Radical Management
- Manager 2.0: The Role of the Manager in Scrum by Deemer
- Agile Manager Behaviors: What to Look For and Develop by Spann
- User Story Primer by Leffingwell and Behrens
- Patterns for Splitting Stories by Lawrence
- Story Splitting Workflow by Lawrence
- Agile-Friendly Ways to Split Deliverables by Broza
- Story Mapping in a Nut Shell by Banks
- Story Map Concepts by Patton
- Kanban, Flow and Cadence by Scotland
- An Introduction to Kanban by Hewlett (see parts 2 and 3 for a case study and tools discussion)
- Kanban vs. Scrum by Kniberg
- What is Scrumban? – SolutionsIQ
- Scrum-ban – Ladas
- Is ScrumMaster Really a Full-time Job? by Hawks
- How Scrum Generates Increased Productivity by Szalvay
- ScrumMaster Checklist by James
- Playing the ScrumMaster Role, Challenges and Significance by Attanasio
- Stacia Broderick’s Story (from PM to SM) by Broderick
- ScrumMasters and Agile Coaches: More Than a Title by Derby
- Multitasking Gets You There Later by Brown
- New Studies Show Pitfalls Of Doing Too Much at Once by Shellenbarger (2003!)
- Media multitaskers pay mental price, Stanford study shows by Gorlick
- Story Testing
- The Agile Testing Pyramid by Brown
- A Sprint is not a Two Week Waterfall by Brown
- Release Planning by Version One
- Outcomes Over Features by North
- Big Room Planning for Multiple Teams by Ellarby
- Product Road-Mapping using Agile Principles by Kundu and Lentz
- Magical Thinking and the Zero-Sum Roadmap by Mironov
- Distributed Scrum Primer by Deemer, et al.
- Successful Distributed Agile Team Working Patterns by Yap (sign-up required)
- Using an Agile Software Process with Offshore Development by Fowler
- Can You Hear Me Now? by Fewell
- Techniques for Keeping Retrospectives Lively by Ledalla
- The Value of an Agile Coach by Brown
- A Coaching Toolkit by Derby
- Agile Coach Path by several
- Coaching Conversations by Inam
- Appreciative Inquiry by Vogt
- Powerful Questions by Vogt
- Multi-Level Listening by CTI
- Agile Documentation by Brown
- Agile As-Built Design Document by Brown
- Scrum at Scale by Sutherland and endorsed by the Scrum Alliance
- Large Scale Scrum by Larman and Vodde also endorsed by the Scrum Alliance
- Project Discovery – Planning a Large Agile Project by Brown
- Advice on Conducting the Scrum of Scrums Meeting by Cohn
- Dependency Management In A Large Agile Environment by Babinet and Ramanathan
- Scaling at Spotify by Kniberg
- US Air Force Assessment of SAFe
- Surviving Sox with Scrum by Roberts and Mathis
- Agile Software in Regulated Environments by Nadler
- Integrating User Experience Design Practices into Agile Processes by Hodgett
- UX and Agile by Patton
- Agile User Interface Design and Information Architecture from the Trenches by Dymond
- Case Study: Lean UX at Work
- Studies of Colocation compiled by Dinwiddie
- Pair Programming by Menlo Innovations
- Don’t Just Break Software, Make Software
- Agile Version Control with Multiple Teams by Kniberg
- Test-driven development might seem like twice the work — but you should do it anyway
- Is Design Dead? by Fowler
- Principles of Agile Architecture by Leffingwell
- The Role of the Agile Architect by Johnston
- Principles for the Agile Architect by Johnston
- Software Architecture in the Agile Life Cycle by Fontdevila and Salias
- Making the Date by Jeffries
- Want Better Software? Just Ask by Cohn
- A most excellent Blog by Roman Pichler
- Why Prioritizing Your Product Backlog for ROI Doesn’t Work by Hohman
- How Product Management Must Change to Enable the Agile Enterprise by Connor
- At Times More is Less… by Blank
- Video: Agile Product Ownership in a Nutshell by Kniberg
- Scrum for Hardware Product Development blog
- Top 10 questions when using Agile on hardware projects by Maccherone
- Deep Agile Embedded Panel Questions – Hardware by Grenning
- Agile for SAP
- Agile Project Management for ERP… by Alleman
- Can Agile Practies Prevent ERP Disaster? by Goldsbury
- Agile ERP… by Meszaros
- 5 Steps to Implement ERP the Agile Way by Babic
- Agile BI Out of the Box by Evelson
- The Agilist by Collier Also notice his book “Agile Analytics” on his website.
- Data Warehousing Best Practices by Ambler
- Data Warehousing: Do You Scrum? by Kobelius
Agile for FDA Regulated Environments
- Moving to Agile in an FDA Environment by Rasmussen
- Agile Software Development with Verification and Validation in High Assurance and Regulated Environments by Leffingwell
- Guidance on the use of AGILE practices in the development of medical device software
- Agile Software Development Streamlines FDA-Regulated Applications
- Can and should agile be used for medical device development? Absolutely!
- The 13 Principles Of Lean Product Development
- Is Agile Harder for Agencies?
- A Lean Model for Digital Agencies (scroll to Aug 5, 2014)
- Lean Studio Manifesto
- Flexible Contracts
- Agency Agile – Articles
- Three Reasons Agile Can Fail At Your Agency
- Scrum for Commercials 1
- Scrum for Commercials 2
Agile for Government Contractors
- Modern Agile Contracts for the Real World by Fewell
- The U.S. Department of Defense on How to Detect ‘Agile BS’
- Agile and Incremental Software Development in the Defense Acquisition System
- Agile in Government – Deloitte
- Beyond Budgeting by Hope
Business Value and Prioritization
- Estimating Business Value by Sims, a nice summary of articles
- A Simple Tool for Prioritizing Features by Brown
- Prioritizing Your Product Backlog by Cohn
- Rethinking the Review by Ramirez
- Unjust Deserts by Poppendiek
- Performance without Appraisal by Derby
- Performance Management for Agile People by Atlas
- Scrum Alliance Member Stories
- Scrum Case Studies
- Large-Scale Scrum Case Studies
- VersionOne Customer Cases
- Rally Customer Cases
- SalesForce
- Scrum and XP from the Trenches by Kniberg (free eBook)
- Lean from the Trenches by Kniberg
- Yahoo Mail
- Amazon Web Services
- Flexible Contracts (Outcome-based) by Benefield
- Three Types of Agile Contracts by Naughter
- Agile Contracts by Larman and Vodde
- Agile Team Meets a Fixed Price Contract by Niebudek
- 10 Contracts for Your Next Agile Software Project by Stevens
- Money for Nothing and Your Change for Free by Sutherland
- Lean Startup in a Nutshell by Link
- Startup Lessons Learned by Ries
- Steven Blank
- Creating a Team of Experts
- Lessons Leaned in Non-Software Scrum
- Owning the Sky with Agile (SAAB Fighter Jet)
- Scrum Beyond Software Conference
- Scum for Non-Technical Teams by Sutherland
- Scrum in Church by Sutherland
- The 100 MPG Car
- Scrum in Construction
- The Six Disciplines of Agile Marketing
- The Six Values and 4 Benefits of Agile Marketing
- Benefits of Agile Marketing
- Agile Marketing User Stories
- New, New Product Development Game by Takeuchi and Nonaka, the origin of the Scrum/Rugby analogy
- 8 Lessons from the First Scrum Team by one of its members, Joe Kinsella
- Managing the Development of Large Software Systems by Royce, the mis-quoted paper that spawned the Waterfall process
- Dr. Winston Royce, the plight of a mis-quoted man by Miller, how Waterfall became the standard