Agile Development - Mitch Lacey & Associates, Inc.

Articles, Slide Decks & Published Papers

• Deck: Are We There Yet? Defining Done, presented in Orlando, Florida at the SQE Agile Development Conference, November 2008.
• Tutorial: Mixing Roles in Scrum: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly , presented in Orlando, Florida at the SQE Agile Development Conference, November 2008.
• Deck: Mixing Roles in Scrum: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly , presented in Atlanta, Georgia at the APLN Leadership summit, September 2008.
• Article: How Do We Know When We Are Done?, published 10 September, 2008. Scrum Aliiance
• Article: "Four"warned Is Forearmed, published 28 May, 2008. Scrum Alliance
• Deck: The Value of Collaborative Estimation,  presented in Toronto, Ontario at the Agile Alliance Agile 2008 conference, August 2008
• Video: When Working Software is Not Enough - link through to InfoQ.com 
• Deck: When Working Software is Not Enough,  presented in Toronto, Ontario at the Agile Alliance Agile 2008 conference, August 2008
• Deck:  Scrum for Managers, presented in Lisbon, Portugal, February 2008
• Deck: The Impact of Poor Estimating — And How to Fix It, presented at SQE Agile development conference in Orlando, Florida, December 2007
• Paper & Deck: Transitioning to Agile: Key Lessons Learned in the Field, presented at PMI North America Global Congress in Atlanta, Georgia, October 2007
• Paper: Adventures in Promiscious Pairing: Seeking Beginners Mind, presented at Agile 2006 in Denver, Colorado, July, 2006
  

Scrum Tools

• Scrum Sprint Backlog Templates: These are the standard templates I use on my projects and demo in workshops.  I do not support them.  You are welcome to modify as you wish.
• 14 Day Sprint Timeline Diagrams: These diagrams provide a quick reference for the activities that happen in a Sprint. These are based on current Scrum thinking (books, articles) and my experience running Scrum projects.

Reading List

These papers and books are default reading material for teams and companies I coach and work with.

ARTICLES & Papers

• Promiscuous Pairing and Beginner’s Mind: Embrace Inexperience.  Arlo Belshee.  Presented at Agile 2005

Books

• Craig Larman. Agile and Iterative Development: A Manager's Guide. Addison Wesley, ISBN 978-0131111554
• Ken Schwaber, Agile Project Management with Scrum. Microsoft Press, ISBN 978-0735619937
• Ken Schwaber, The Enterprise and Scrum, Microsoft Press, ISBN 978-0735623378
• Mike Cohn, Agile Estimating and Planning, Addison Wesley, ISBN 978-0131479418
• Mike Cohn, User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development, Addison Wesley, ISBN 0-321-20568-5
• Esther Derby & Diana Larsen, Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great, Pragmatic Bookshelf, ISBN 978-0977616640
• Tom DeMarco, Slack, Broadway Publishing, ISBN 0767907698
• Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister, Waltzing with Bears, Dorset House Publishing Company, 978-0932633606
• Patrick Lencioni, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Jossey Bass, 978-0787960759
• Patrick Lencioni, The Three Signs of a Miserable Job, Jossey Bass, 978-0787995317