Very timely post. I’ve been giving the project vs. product debate some consideration for quite some time now.

I’ve been reviewing the books that I want to read over the next year and have been looking at the lists other people have compiled. This one seems pretty comprehensive.

I’m not suggesting for one minute though that I will complete them all this year…

I’ve used this piece of software a number of times now, it is excellent

I’ve been doing some research on User Stories over the weekend as I will be facilitating a session on Tuesday at work to gather information for a project. This has been an interesting read.

Another article that has proved very useful in explaining User Stories. This includes some good points that distinguish User Stories from requirements.

Links to a Scrum presentation that will be useful to base mine on

Another Scrum presentation that I could use

A very useful resource for the presentation I have to do

Ken Schwaber presents at Google on Scrum whys and wherefores

Saw this posted on a blog and agree with that author that it is a useful 1 page guide to Scrum

Skype for Smartphones on WM6

An interesting article which distills nicely some of the practices that developers need to get their heads round when working on an Agile project. I think difficult for most is the switch to designing just what is needed and not the whole api for the next

Interesting article, our projects continue to suffer a lot from context switching and from developers who are interrupted throughout the day.

An interesting article that discusses the various types of stand up meetings and summarises some of the papers that have been written on them previously.