Agile Development - Mitch Lacey

Published Papers

• 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.

Reading List

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

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