Everyone getting agile has to read this book! Author: Mike Cohn Title: User Stories Applied for Agile Software Development http://bit.ly/POrak Rating: highly recommended! During any approach to implement agile procedures in an organisation there is a need to explain how management and engineering of requirements should work. Coming from traditional waterfall projects most people do not understand what those User Story stuff is all about. Usually lot of concerns are mentioned... "So, User Stories are Use Cases, right? Why don't you just call it Use Case?" "But we need all requirements at the start of our project. How should that work with User Stories?" "No, we don't need that. We know what the customers want and we know all features of the product. What for should we waste ...
Everyone working with teams has to read this book! Authors: Esther Derby, Diana Larsen Title: Agile Retrospectives - Making Good Teams Great http://bit.ly/cvoaH Rating: highly recommended! Esther Derby and Diana Larsen describe 38 activities for all stages of a retrospective meeting. These activities provide ways to improve the team work and to get better results of the retrospective. There are no rules when to choose which activity but you get a nice set of activities to select from. Goal: avoid boring routine by varying activities. Retrospectives are one of the major keys to successful agile teams! This book helps to improve teams and so to improve the agile approach of a team. Be aware of technical teams being focussed on hard skills rather than soft skills ...
