Read at least on of these books:

Scrum Books

• Boris Gloger: “Scrum – Produkte zuverlässig und schnell entwickeln” – 2009
  “Über die Grenzen der Softwareindustrie hinweg zeigt dieses Buch, wie Menschen durch Scrum miteinander statt gegeneinander arbeiten können. Das Buch kann daher nicht nur Softwareentwicklern und Projektleitern empfohlen werden und hat sich als Note ein klares ‘Sehr gut’ verdient.” dotnetpro, Januar 2009

• Ken Schwaber & Mike Beedle: “Agile Software Development with Scrum” -The original Scrum book. Good, clear overview of the practices and principles of Scrum. It is somewhat out-of-date now, as Scrum has progressed since the book was written, but it is still a valuable read.

• Alistair Cockburn: “Agile Software Development. The Cooperative Game“

• Craig Larman: “Agile & Iterative Development: A Managers Guide” – The beginners guide to Agile: good overviews of the whole paradigm, and summaries of the different approaches.

• Kent Beck and Cynthia Andres: “Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change” – One of the first Agile books. Focuses mainly (but not solely) on the engineering practices, and supplies good overall context for creating an Agile organization

Patrick Kua has published a very nice reading list.

Read at least on of these books:

Scrum Books

• Boris Gloger: “Scrum – Produkte zuverlässig und schnell entwickeln” – 2009
  “Über die Grenzen der Softwareindustrie hinweg zeigt dieses Buch, wie Menschen durch Scrum miteinander statt gegeneinander arbeiten können. Das Buch kann daher nicht nur Softwareentwicklern und Projektleitern empfohlen werden und hat sich als Note ein klares ‘Sehr gut’ verdient.” dotnetpro, Januar 2009

• Ken Schwaber & Mike Beedle: “Agile Software Development with Scrum” -The original Scrum book. Good, clear overview of the practices and principles of Scrum. It is somewhat out-of-date now, as Scrum has progressed since the book was written, but it is still a valuable read.

• Alistair Cockburn: “Agile Software Development. The Cooperative Game“

• Craig Larman: “Agile & Iterative Development: A Managers Guide” – The beginners guide to Agile: good overviews of the whole paradigm, and summaries of the different approaches.

• Kent Beck and Cynthia Andres: “Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change” – One of the first Agile books. Focuses mainly (but not solely) on the engineering practices, and supplies good overall context for creating an Agile organization

Patrick Kua has published a very nice reading list.

I recommend you join one or more of the following yahoo groups, depending on your specific area/s of interest:

scrumdevelopment · Scrum Users
This is the place to ask questions and hear from others who have run into the same kind of problems. Try not to be put off by the shear amount of emails, you will no doubt find ways to filter them appropriately over time.

agileplanning · Agile Estimating and Planning
Mike Cohn’s group set up to discuss Agile Estimation and Planning. Mike is active on this list, and will respond to questions personally.

retrospectives · Retrospective Facilitators
The retrospectives group.

agile-usability · Agile Usability
This group is aimed at writers, designers, interaction analysts, etc.

agile-testing · Agile Software Testing
For testers and anyone interested in testing. Again lots of traffic.

My presentations:

All my presentations you will find on slideshare.net

Scrum Books

• Boris Gloger, Scrum – Produkte zuverlässig und schnell entwickeln, Hanser, 2008

• Ken Schwaber & Mike Beedle: “Agile Software Development with Scrum” -The original Scrum book. Good, clear overview of the practices and principles of Scrum. It is somewhat out-of-date now, as Scrum has progressed since the book was written, but it is still a valuable read.

• Alistair Cockburn: “Agile Software Development. The Cooperative Game

• Craig Larman: “Agile & Iterative Development: A Managers Guide”  — http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0131111558/ — The beginners guide to Agile: good overviews of the whole paradigm, and summaries of the different approaches.

• Kent Beck: “Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change”: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0321278658/ — One of the first Agile books. Focuses mainly (but not solely) on the engineering practices, and supplies good overall context for creating an Agile organization

Product/Project Management Material

A good starting paper for product managers is “Want Better Software? Just Ask” by Mike Cohn

http://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/articles/WantBetterSoftware.pdf

Also take a look at Mike’s other available papers. Mike Cohn has a very pragmatic approach to Scrum and writes in a very clear and succinct way: http://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/articles?page=1

• I’d also recommend Mike Cohn’s first book, “User Stories Applied” — http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0321205685/ — It coverst he aspects of writing, estimating, prioritizing and committing to product requirements that we covered on this course.

• Jim Highsmith: Agile Project Management – Creating Innovative Products — http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0321219775/ — Good overview of Agile approaches to project management. This is more “managerial” than I like, personally, but offers some good ideas for working with customers.

Lean Management

Theory of Constraints:

• The Goal -http://www.amazon.de/Goal-Eliyahu-M-Goldratt/dp/0884271781/ref=sr_1_1/028-5090807-7487731?ie=UTF8&s=books-intl-de&qid=1175787379&sr=1-1

• Critical Chain

  http://www.amazon.de/Critical-Chain-Eliyahu-M-Goldratt/dp/0884271536/ref=sr_1_2/028-5090807-7487731?ie=UTF8&s=books-intl-de&qid=1175787424&sr=1-2

The Toyota Production System:

• The Toyota Way, Liker

Creativity
Artful Making: What Managers Need to Know about How Artists Work: What Managers Need to Know About How Artists Work (Financial Times Prentice Hall Books.) von Eric Schmidt (Vorwort), Rob Austin (Autor), Lee Devin (Autor). A great book. Stacia Broderick works with Lee (and me) on a class in this area.

Engineering Practices
Michael Feathers: Working Effectively with Legacy Code

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0131177052/

Martin Fowler, et al: Refactoring – Improving the Design of Existing Code

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0201485672/

Configuration Management
Brad Appleton’s home page http://www.cmcrossroads.com/bradapp/ and his blog http://bradapp.blogspot.com/ – some very interesting posts here.