Resources

The following books, articles and web sites have been recommended by members of the AgileNM group as resources they have found valuable in developing their understanding of Agile techniques.

General

• The Pragmatic Programmer (ISBN: 978-0201616224): It seems a bit obvious, but it was mentioned in the last meeting and I agree that it is a very important and helpful book. It was so successful that the authors started their own publishing company. [Ronnie Garduño]
  
  
• Agile Manifesto: The vision for the Agile movement. [Frank LaFond]
  
  
• Agile Documentation: A Pattern Guide to Producing Lightweight Documents for Software Projects (ISBN: 0470856173): A great book for ideas on how to thin out documents. [Dave Walz-Burkett]
  
  
• Wikipedia entry: Definition of "Agile software development" [Frank LaFond]
  
  
• Agile and Iterative Development: A Manager's Guide (ISBN: 0131111558): An excellent overview of agile and several methodologies, including XP, Scrum, Evo & RUP. [Dave Walz-Burkett]
  
  
• Agile Documentation: A Pattern Guide to Producing Lightweight Documents for Software Projects (ISBN: 0470856173): A great book for ideas on how to thin out documents. [Dave Walz-Burkett]
  
  
• Agile Management for Software Engineering: Applying the Theory of Constraints for Business Results (ISBN: 0131424602): If management wants 'proof' of the value in agile development, have them read this. [Dave Walz-Burkett]
  

Extreme Programming

• Extreme Programming: A gentle introduction: Don Wells XP site. [Frank LaFond]
  
  
• XProgramming.com: Ron Jeffries XP site [Frank LaFond]

Scrum

• Control Chaos: Scrum home page
  
  
• Agile Software Development with SCRUM (ISBN: 0130676349): The classic read on Scrum (can't leave this one off the list) [Dave Walz-Burkett]

Test Driven Development

• Test Driven: The prime site for TDD news and tools. [Frank LaFond]

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