I am running a project using Scrum, and I have been discovering that even though the information is to hand many readers of traditional PM and BA sites aren't familiar with the process. So I wanted to give an overview.
And once I started on that, it got out of hand and I have extended the overview into a list of all the things I think are important to know about when starting the agile/scrum journey.
Lastly the link titles don't always match the article headings at the other end. It's a matter of context.
The Better Projects Scrum Reading List
The Basics
- A brief introduction - Mike Cohn
- What is Scrum - by Darrell Norton
- The neat one page diagrams - a, b, c
- Scrum in 5 minutes - by Softhouse
- The Scrum papers - 181 pages by Schwaber and Sutherland
- Scrum talk by Schwaber at Google
- Why my process is better than yours - A collection of essays by Martin Fowler
- Sprint planning - by Mike Cohn, How we do it in practice by Jack Milunsky
- Stand-ups; Fundamentals of the daily stand up - by Mishkin Bertieg, 3 Questions for daily Stand-ups - by Jeff Sutherland, 7 Tips - by Stacia Broderick
- Sprint reviews - by Peter Stev
- Retrospectives - (on slideshare)
- The Product Owner - great series of posts by Mike Cottmeyer, The Mythical Product Owner Role by Michael Groeneveld
- The Scrum Master role - Discussion at Stack Overflow
- Effectiveness tips for Scrum Masters - by Michael James
- The difference between the scrum master and the PM - by Johanna Rothman
- Managers, not ScrumMasters, by Jeff Sutherland
- The Team; The responsibilities, Self organisation - by Jeff Sutherland,
- Surfacing Team Dysfunctions - by Plaman Balkanski
- PMs and BAs finding their place in Scrum
- The Product Backlog
- User Stories - Jack Milunsky, What's in a Story - by Dan North, Bill Wake's INVEST model by me
- NFRs in the backlog, by Dean Leffinwell, NFRs as user stories by Mike Cohn
- Acceptance criteria by Anthony Marcano, Presentaton on Slideshare by Scornelius, And see the Dan North article above.
- Managing multiple stakeholders and competing priorities
- Value management
- Story points - by Peter Stevens
- Story ponts versus time - by Gus and Simon
- Sprint Backlog items
- Planning Poker, devised by Mike Cohn
- Sprint burn down charts
- Velocity, Optimising velocity by Richard Kronflat
- Differences between EVM and agile estimating - by Alistair Cockburn
- Product burn up chats
- Release planning - from VersionOne
- Aim for small releases - by Gus and Simon
- Release early and often - by Corey Ladas
- Refactoring, Refactoring forever - by Richard Kronfalt
- "Monte Carlo" release planning by Mike Cohn
- Done - Peter Stevens provides a definition, Podcast with Schwaber, The Done Manifesto
- Testing and verification (looking to XP and other tools) by Dr. Ralph van Roosmalen
- Unit testing - by Roy Osherove
- QA for requirements
- Technical debt by Martin Fowler, The Mikado Method by Daniel Brolund,
- What is a scrum smell
- 5 common Scrum mistakes
- Scrum smells,a scrum community wiki
Personal improvement
- Shu Ha Ri (The journey from beginner to master) - by Jurgen Apello (on ideas by Alistair Cockburn)
- Varying the process, by Rowan Bunning
- Scrum-but - on Slideshare
- Tips on implementing Scrum - for the team (Kelly Waters), for the client, for the stakeholders (Lynda Bourne, PMI)
- Selling Scrum as a positive alternative
- The challenge of Iterative requirements definition
- Iterative and incremental product builds
- The relational database and object base impedence (?)
- Augmenting Scrum with XP
- Lessons learned and shared, a year with scrum on Slideshare, Organisational change and scrum by Richard Banks
- A Scrum book list is available here.
- Online communties
