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Agile Book Recommendations

Our Core Beliefs in Agile

come from the Agile Manifesto

and its Twelve Principles ,

the Declaration of Interdependence ( we are Philadelphians, after all) ,

and we may even lean toward being Agnostic Agilists

(List articles, too, if they apply, and if they were really really useful)

Core Readings
Extreme Programming Explained / Beck
Agile Software Development: Principles, Patterns, and Practices / Robert C. Martin
Test-Driven Development / Beck
Refactoring / Martin Fowler

http://www.implementingscrum.com/scrumguide/ The Universal Scrum Guide as  a Free Audio Book
 
Core Readings, Level 2
Design Patterns / Gamma, Helm, Johnson, Vlissides
Working Effectively with Legacy Code / Michael Feathers
Planning Extreme Programming / Beck, Fowler
Implementing Lean Software Development / Mary and Tom Poppendieck

Fine-Tuning Your Skills
Domain Driven Design / Evans
xUnit Test Patterns, Refactoring Test Code / Gerard Meszaros
Test-Driven Development: A Practical Guide / Dave Astels

Recommended
Code Complete / Steve McConnell
Rapid Application Development / Steve McConnell
Lean Software Development / Mary Poppendieck
The eBook https://leanpub.com/SaveOurScrum
Discoveries Through Personal Agility / Raji Sivaraman https://www.agilealliance.org/resources/books/discoveries-through-personal-agility
Making Projects Sing / Raji Sivaraman https://www.amazon.com/Making-Projects-Sing-Perspective-Management-ebook/dp/B01EG6Q926
Artful Making: What Managers Need to Know About How Artists Work (ISBN: 0-13-008695-9)
Lean Solutions / Womack and Jones
User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development Addison-Wesley Signature Series
Agile Estimating and Planning / Robert C. Martin
Fearless Change / Linda Rising and Mary Lynn Manns
Test-Driven Development in Microsoft.net
Extreme Programming adventures in C#
The Wisdom of Teams: Creating the High-Performance Organization / Katzenbach & Smith
Software for your Head / McCarthy Peopleware / DeMarco
Making Projects Sing - A Musical Perspective of Project Management

Leadership

Local Authors


Joel Adams, The Scrum Handbook (zipped Word Doc 100 pgs)
The Scrum User's Handbook.zipped word doc
Agile Maturity Model - Assessment Excel Sheets
Agile Maturity Model website- built by local Sebastian Hermida

Professional Enterprise .Net


Audrey Troutt, Ternary Software, Inc. whitepaper: What every business person needs to know about Agile software development


Other reading lists

http://devlicio.us/blogs/billy_mccafferty/archive/2007/11/12/standing-on-the-shoulders-of-giants.aspx

Magazines

Better Software Magazine with articles on Agile and Daily Articles

https://www.stickyminds.com/new-stickyminds-start-here

Blogs

Quick Hits

http://agileforall.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Story-Splitting-Flowchart.pdf

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