The second best Sesame Street book to read with kids.
(The best is
There's a Monster at the End of this Book.)
Everything Else
Grover goes to a Museum called The Everything in the Whole Wide World Museum.
He goes from room to room, seeing collections of all kinds of things.
But he wonders...
Spoiler Alert!
Look at All You Have Seen
Things to Try
- Acceptance test
- Backlog
- Burnup / burndown chart
- Continuous deployment
- Continuous integration
- Daily stand-up
- DTSTTCPW
- Five Whys
- Four-panel Storyboard
- Information Radiator
- Iteration
- Metrics that matter
- Mood chart
- Pairing
- Parking lot
- Plan B
- Pulling tasks
- Refactoring
- Retrospective
- Scenarios
- Story point
- Swarming
- Taskboard
- TDD
- Technical spike
- Timebox
- User story
- Velocity
- Vertical slice
- YAGNI
Things to Avoid
- Waterfall
- Big Design Up Front (BDUF)
- Project schedules
- Solo coding
- Silos
- Pushing task assignments
Underlying Agile Themes
- Delivering value early
- Defining by story
- Timeboxing
- Deferring commitment
- Slicing
- Transparency
- Automated testing
- Minimizing work in progress
- Avoiding waste
So Much More to Learn
Unfortunately...
The average software developer doesn't own a single book on the subject of his or her work, and hasn't ever read one.
The Coder's Bookshelf (pre-web)
The Coder's Bookshelf (post-web)
Everything Else
Blogs and feeds
- INFOQ RSS feed on Agile
- talks, articles, summaries of mailing list discussions, on a wide range of software development issues
- Agile on Reddit
- Agile and Lean Software Development on LinkedIn
Books (for developers)
- Getting Started with Agility: Essential Reading
- Jurgen Appelo's top 100
- Top 15 Agile Books -- lean startup oriented
- Top 20 Agile Books for Software Developers (2015)
- Best Agile Books of All Time -- terrible title, good list
Thanks to Hakim El Hattab for RevealJS