2014
The Incremental Commitment Spiral Model: Principles and Practices for Successful Systems and Software Book Review
The content of this book will help you audit, adjust, and manage your software process.
Agile Product Owner Secrets Book Review
I highly recommend this book to all those moving towards an agile approach, but especially those moving towards an agile method that includes the product owner role.
The Agile PMO: Leading the Effective, Value driven, Project Management Office Book Review
This book does not take long to read so the investment on your side is a few bucks and minimal time, but it has the potential of helping you avoid going down the wrong road, or recognizing that you are down the wrong road.
2013
Scrum Shortcuts without Cutting Corners: Agile Tactics, Tools, & Tips Book Review
Books like this can give insight into what you are up against before you have to learn the lesson the hard way, by going through it yourself.
The Essence of Software Engineering: Applying the SEMAT Kernel Book Review
The SEMAT Kernel provides a set of tools that enable those, that would normally not have enough experience to recognize when the project is going off-track, to be able to.
2012
Essential Scrum: A Practical Guide to the Most Popular Agile Process Book Review
This book's title Essentials Scrum: A Practical Guide to the Most Popular Agile Process, is a perfect description of what this book is. It covers every essential that you need to know about the scrum process, and the book is written to every role in the scrum process.
Enterprise Software Delivery: Bringing Agility and Efficiency to the Global Software Supply Chain Book Review
If you want a current look into the state of enterprise software deliver at a global level, then this is the book for you.
ATDD by Example: A Practical Guide to Acceptance Test-Driven Development Book Review
If you are interested in Acceptance Test-Driven Development, Behavior-Driven Development (BDD), Specification by Example, Agile Acceptance Testing, or Story Testing this is a great place to start.
The Scrum Field Guide: Practical Advice for Your First Year Book Review
This is one cool book. If you are starting to use Scrum, read it. If you are using Scrum, read it. If you are just wondering what Scrum is all about, read it.
2011
Agile Software Requirements: Lean Requirements Practices for Teams, Programs, and the Enterprise Book Review
I feel this is the first complete book on what an enterprise level agile process should look like.
Agile Development != Chaos
The most agile project teams I have seen are those that do not claim to be agile or lean. They have a solid well documented architecture in place as well as designs of the modules being built.
2007
Practically Free Book: Agile Development with ICONIX Process
A friend of mine at work pointed this out to me last week. I got the book and cannot figure out why it is soooooo cheap. But it is definitely worth it. The book does a great job of putting a realistic spin on agile.
Agile Development != Low Ceremony && The Movement Needs to Die
Low ceremony does not have anything to do with being agile. Agile is an enabled state that is only accomplished through experience. It can be learned, but absolutely not by doing less.
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