Scrum/Agile Starter Kit

If you’re new to Scrum, and wants to know how you can start, this is the post for you.

Please kindly comment on this post to provide your thoughts and your recommendations on whatever resources helped you on your journey to Scrum/Agile.

Part I: You could browse my blog on my experience on Scrum and Agile, or browse the site www.kaverjody.com. If you couldn’t access it, please try the Sina Blog, it contains all my old blog posts too. Posts including:

• Scrum Framework
  • Scrum开发模式
  • the thing – scrum
  • Tabloid : Topics about Scrum
  • McDonald & Scrum
  • Scrum Introduction Yesterday
  • Scrum : What is, Why you are not, and Change yourself
  • Agile/Scrum Introduction @成都.第一天
  • CSM Training By Michael James
  • Pictures from Scrum Introductions
  • 时间盒与进度压力
  • Scrum Introduction (4 hours) 090903
  • CSM Training by Kane Mar (21~22 April 2010)
• Sprint Planning: 5th Sprint Planning Meeting
• Burndown: Sprint Burndown Chart : hours left, but not burnt ones
• Sprint Review: Quickly About Sprint Review
• Sprint Retrospective
  • Sprint804 Retrospective有感
  • Sprint Retrospective 805
  • Puzzled with retrospective in my team
  • Retrospective Facilitator Training today
  • Retrospective for one testing team
• Agile Testing
  • Tabloid – Agile Testing Strategies By Scott Ambler, DDJ
  • 评《从一个实例详解敏捷测试的最佳实践》
  • 2nd Day @ Agile Testing Days.DE
  • 3rd Day @ Agile Testing Days.DE
  • 3rd Day @ AgileTD.DE (contd.)
  • Agile Testing Days 2012 Takeaways
• Performance
  • Performance Of Individuals In Agile
  • Bonus In A Company
  • How Should Newcomers Learn In Agile?
  • More on Performance
• User Story
  • 分割User Story
  • INVEST和SMART
  • User Story & Task, Story Point & Hours
  • some words from a “size point” discussion
  • Velocity is Story Points per Sprint?
  • Quote Ron Jeffries on Velocity
  • Story Points & Hours: Jeff Sutherland’s View
  • Definition of Done & Acceptance Criteria or Conditions of Satisfaction
• Scrum Master
  • Multi-Tasking Scrum Master
  • One more sprint just passed by
  • 《部落：一呼百应的力量》书摘
• Agile Coaching
  • Agile Transformation
  • Some Thoughts on Coaching
  • Leader & Scrum Master & Coach
  • Team, the capacity
  • Coach : 无招胜有招
  • Give and Receive Feedback + Build Trust Within Team
  • “Agile Coaching” Reading Accomplished
  • Manipulate to Coach? NO!
• Agile Modeling and TDD Workshop
  • Agile Modeling and TDD Workshop, by Craig Larman (1)
  • Agile Modeling and TDD Workshop, by Craig Larman (2)
  • Agile Modeling and TDD Workshop, by Craig Larman (3)
• Organizational Practices
  • 《持续集成：软件质量改进和风险降低之道》读后总结 1
  • 《持续集成：软件质量改进和风险降低之道》读后总结 2
  • 《软件开发沉思录：ThoughtWorks文集》读后感
  • I Ran Out of Silver Bullets, Now What? @ Shanghai Scrum Gathering
  • 《可伸缩敏捷开发：企业级最佳实践》读后感
• Self-Organization
  • Working With Self-Organized Teams
  • Working With Self-Organized Teams for Line Manager
• 敏捷
  • 何物谓之敏捷，何物冠之敏捷，何物之为敏捷
  • 总结Scrum实施经验时勿犯归因错误的毛病
  • 敏捷成熟度模型？

Part II: And you could first read free resources from the internet:

• Agile Manifesto: English Version, Simplified Chinese Version
• “What is Scrum” from Scrum Alliance: a brief introduction to Scrum Framework
• “Scrum Guide” from Scrum.org: English Version, Chinese Version
• “Scrum and XP From Trenches” from InfoQ: EN Article / PDF Minibook, CN Article / PDF Minibook.
• “Scrum Primer” by Certified Scrum Trainers Pete Deemer and Gabrielle Benefield: PDF Download from Scrum Alliance
• “Scrum Checklist” by Certified Scrum Trainer Boris Gloger: EN InfoQ Article / PDF Minibook, CN InfoQ Article / PDF Minibook

Part III: Blogs of Scrum or Agile gurus:

• Scrum Founder
  • Jeff Sutherland books
    • Software in 30 Days
    • The Power of Scrum
  • Ken Schwaber
    • Agile Software Development with Scrum/敏捷软件开发
    • Agile Project Management with Scrum/Scrum敏捷项目管理实战
    • The Enterprise and Scrum/SCRUM与企业管理, Software in 30 Days
• Mike Cohn
  • User Stories Applied/用户故事与敏捷方法
  • Agile Estimating and Planning/敏捷估计与规划
  • Succeeding with Agile/Scrum敏捷软件开发
• Books I found useful to myself
  • The Elements of Scrum
  • Agile Coaching
  • Management 3.0/管理3.0 : 培养和提升敏捷领导力
  • Agile Software Development Ecosystems
  • The Agile Samurai/敏捷武士 : 看敏捷高手交付卓越软件
  • Agile Software Development, Principles, Patterns, and Practices/敏捷软件开发 : 原则、模式与实践
  • Agile Testing/敏捷软件测试 : 测试人员与敏捷团队的实践指南
  • Agile Retrospectives
  • Agile and Iterative Development: A Manager’s Guide/敏捷迭代开发 : 管理者指南
  • Scaling Lean & Agile Development/精益和敏捷开发大型应用指南
  • for more books, check Jürgen’s list on Top 100 Agile Books

Part IV: Recommendations from other places:

• A question on blog recommendations at Quora: best Agile and Scrum blogs
• For your reference: CN 敏捷社区最具影响力人物, EN The Most Influential People in Agile
• Jurgen Appelo’s Lists: Top 100 Agile Books, The Big List of Agile Practices, book Management 3.0/管理3.0 : 培养和提升敏捷领导力