Websites

Agile manifesto The classic site with the common values of and principles behind agile development.

Mountain Goat Software Mike Cohn's site. Contains a good introduction to Scrum, some articles in pdf format and a nice and active blog.

Scrum Aliance One useful feature of this site is that you can search for Scrum training classes worldwide.

Scrum development discussion group Probably the most active discussion group on Scrum. Started by Ken Schwaber.

InfoQ A very cool portal with lots of articles and video presentations from various conferences. Covers the latest knowledge in software development and agile.

Ron Jeffries homepage. Ron, a veteran in XP, shares lots of articles here and also has a quite active and interesting blog.

Blog of Henrik Kniberg A very readable and insightful blog where Henrik Kniberg shares his thougths, slides and articles.

Lean Software Development Mary and Tom Poppendieck coined the term "Lean Software Development". They wrote two books on the subject and are in general considered as deep thinkers in the agile community. In general you do not need to know that much about lean to be successful with agile. Lean can be seen as one way to explain why agile techniques and philosophy works. If you are an advanced agile practitioner you should check these books out though for tips on how to tune your agile implementation and your organization. In a way the focus of lean is more on the entire organization where most agile literature tends to be project focused.

Ken Schwaber's site It does contain some papers and information, but may not be the most actively updated site.

Wikipedia does have a lot of information about XP.

extremeprogramming.org A description of XP

Martin Fowlers site Articles about XP, design, refactoring etc.

Alistair Cockburn's site. A pioneer in agile with focus on the human aspect, communication and teams. Has developed a family of methodologies, Crystal, each appropriate for a specific environment. On this site he has published hundreds of articles. As opposed to XP and e.g. Mike Cohn he advocates the use of use cases instead of user stories.

Ward Cunningham's site
Ward Cunningham invented the Wiki, the test framework FIT and he was also one of the original XP inventors.

Agile Journal Lots of articles here.


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