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Thinking, Fast and Slow - by Daniel Kahneman
In his mega bestseller, Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman, world-famous psychologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think.
The Effective Change Manager's Handbook: Essential Guidance to the Change Management Body of Knowledge - edited by Richard Smith, David King, Ranjit Sidhu, Dan Skelsey), APMG
The Effective Change Manager's Handbook helps practitioners, employers and academics define and practise change management successfully and develop change management maturity within their organization.
Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers - by Dave Gray, Sunni Brown, James Macanufo
Great things don’t happen in a vacuum. But creating an environment for creative thinking and innovation can be a daunting challenge.
The Scrum Anti-patterns Guide: Challenges Every Scrum Team Faces and How to Overcome Them - by Stefan Wolpers
Agile Project Management For Dummies - by Mark C. Layton, Steven J. Ostermiller, Dean J. Kynaston
Learn how to apply agile concepts to your projects. This fully updated book covers changes to agile approaches and new information related to the methods of managing an agile project.
Succeeding with Agile: Software Development Using Scrum - by Mike Cohn
This is the definitive, realistic, actionable guide to starting fast with Scrum and agile–and then succeeding over the long haul
Essential Scrum: A Practical Guide to the Most Popular Agile Process - by Kenneth Rubin
If you want to use Scrum to develop innovative products and services that delight your customers, Essential Scrum is the complete, single-source reference you’ve been searching for.
User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development - by Mike Cohn
User Stories Applied offers a requirements process that saves time, eliminates rework, and leads directly to better software.
Scrum in easy steps - by David Morris
Scrum in easy steps provides an introduction to Scrum, then steps through how a team gets going on a project and how they sustain performance and continually improve.
The 14th Annual State of Agile™ Report
Insights into the application of Agile across different areas of the enterprise and about Value Stream Management
The New New Product Development Game
The first article to mention the Scrum approach.
Determining Sprint Length
There is no one-size-fits-all, magic bullet for determining a sprint length that works well for every team. Originally, Scrum called for one-month sprints, but nowadays many teams have been successful with two-week or even one-week sprints. Choosing the right sprint length is about determining an appropriate stimulus-to-response cycle. In a sprint, the initial stimulus is the customer setting the priority of the stories. The response is the team building working software.
Scrum Guide | Scrum Guides
The Scrum Guide provided in HTML format on the web.
Product Discovery: A Practical In-depth Guide for Product Teams
Product Discovery is the iterative process of reducing uncertainty around the problem space as a product team. Here's how to stay on course.
Essential XP: Card, Conversation, Confirmation
This is RonJeffries.com, the combination of new articles, XProgramming, SameElephant, and perhaps even some new items never before contemplated. Copyright © 1998-forever Ronald E Jeffries
10 Tips for Writing Good User Stories
Writing good user stories can be hard, however these ten tips will help you create powerful stories that direct product delivery.
INVEST in Good Stories, and SMART Tasks
XP teams have to manage stories and tasks. The INVEST and SMART acronyms can remind teams of the good characteristics of each.
Difference between Acceptance Criteria and Done Criteria in Scrum
In Scrum, the Prioritized Product Backlog is a single requirements document that defines the project scope by providing a prioritized list of features of t...
Ordered Not Prioritized
In the past, the Scrum Guide consistently used the word "priority" for the Product Backlog or noted that the Product Backlog was “prioritized.” While the Product Backlog must be ordered, ordering by priority is only one many techniques — and rarely the best one at that.
The Difference between Priority and Order in Your Agile Work
The Scrum Guide talks about an ordered backlog, not a prioritized one. While order and priority are related, they are not the same, and understanding the difference and why people focus on one over the other can help your team be more effective at delivering business value.
Why We're Bad at Estimating Time (and What to Do About It)
The planning fallacy leads us to underestimate how much time it will take us to complete tasks. To avoid the problem, adopt one of these estimation techniques.
Planning Poker: An Agile Estimating and Planning Technique
Poker planning is an agile estimating and planning exercise that uses Planning Poker cards for consensus-based estimating in Scrum.
Agile Estimation: Why The Fibonacci Sequence Works
Some agile teams estimate using a fixed set of values based on the Fibonacci sequence. Learn the science behind this approach and why it works so well.
How to Prevent Estimate Inflation
Estimate inflation is when the estimate assigned to a product backlog item (usually a user story) increases over time. Triangulating prevents this.
Product Vision
What is a Product Vision statement? Learn more about Product Vision statements and other product management terminology in our resources library.
The Product Vision Board
Download the Product Vision Boards to describe the vision and product strategy incl. target group, needs, key features, and business goals.
Building an Agile Roadmap: Guide for Product Managers | Aha! software
Explore the essentials of building an agile roadmap in this guide for product managers. Map out your product strategy in a flexible and adaptive manner.
Tips for Agile product roadmaps & product roadmap examples
As a Product Owner, you are responsible for Product Backlog management, stakeholder management and forecasting. Therefore, you will probably use a variety of tools and techniques to track progress, manage expectations and keep people informed. One of the tools that may come in handy for you is a product roadmap. Applying product roadmaps effectively can be challenging however. The concept of a product roadmap however, is that it is a high-level, strategic plan, that describes the likely development of the product over the next period of time.