Agile Linkage!

Few very good posts in the web, once again :-)

Focus on the intent of Agile

Are we Agile Yet?

I have noticed that when speaking about Agile people very often talk about the process or its implementation. People should instead focus on the principles behind Agile

Agile Principles

I just love these guys at “Agile in action”

Inevitable and Avoidable Rework

Booklinkfest!

Here are some very good books on software craftsmanship, I can recommend everyone of them!

Clean Code (Robert C. Martin)
Working Effectively with Legacy Code (Michael Feathers)
Agile Java (Jeff Langr)
Test-Driven Development: By Example (Kent Beck)
Test Driven: Practical TDD and Acceptance TDD for Java Developers (Lasse Koskela)

Excellent books on how to write maintainable, testable, readable and production quality code. And they are cheap to buy, check your nearest www-book shop. Some ship even with an electronic copy!

Agile Linkage!

Here we go again!

Collaboration is fundamental, definitely keeping this exercise in mind.

Simple exercise to demonstrate the value of collaboration

How to effectively prioritize stories:

The billboard over moscow

What’s keeping you from refactoring?

Refactoring Inhibitors

There. Good stuff!

Agile Linkage

Just one link, but what a link it is!

Agile Coaching

Lot’s of people seem to have read Agile Coaching by Rachel Davies and Liz Sedley and I know why.

It is an excellent book.

Simply, it gives an awful lot of good practical tips and practices how to be an effective coach.

I won’t go into details about the book, but its contents are of extreme quality with illuminating examples from real life. Definitively recommended reading!

Agile linkage – again

Almost every blogger I follow frequently post links into their blogs, so I decided to do that too :-) Good stuff needs to be promoted, so here you go:

A good article on Agile Journal about the most common pitfalls found within agile transformation.