After one year of implementing Scrum at my place, I was asked to give a lecture to a new Team-Leaders, This Wednesday I will have my first Scrum Session, I spent a lot of time for the last few weeks to create a cool Presentation, I've also spent some time reading lots of data (some of them even more than once) about the Agile manifesto and its different methodologies.
I will update later on about the first session (next week). But to my readers I will give one great tip, two books bonus for a better start for your agile development:
This two books are "better together" - While reading them both you will understand:
- Why to choose Agile (Or: The Values of the Agile manifesto)
- Better Understanding for the problems within methodologies (Not only the non-Scrum ones)
- What is agile at all - I've found many people not understanding the meaning of being Agile.
- What is the difference between the methodologies (Scrum, XP, Crystal etc.)
- Implementation (especially Scrum at Ken Schwaber's book)
- and many samples from the experienced writers.
And here are some bonus links to my learning phase for the last year (stories from the last year as a Scrum-Master):
- Scrum methodology - the scrum master
- Trying to manage the team-pace better (or- Entering to Scrum For TeamSystem Template)
- Improve your scrum Environment
- Scrum for Team system feature requests
And here is one article I've found while start writing (back in the past while I didn't even know about being Agile)
- Acceptance Tests
I hope you will enjoy those books (and links).