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What is Scrum? By Ken Schwaber

  • The first published paper on Scrum presented at OOPSLA in 1995 by Ken Schwaber.

Future of Scrum: Parallel Pipelining of Sprints in Complex Projects,” J. Sutherland, in AGILE 2005 Conference Denver, CO: IEEE, 2005

ScrumGuide by Ken Schwaber

  • Published in 2009, ScrumGuide is an easy-to-read overview of Scrum

Scrum and CMMI – Going from Good to Great: are you ready-ready to be done-done?,” C. Jakobsen and J. Sutherland, in Agile 2009, Chicago, 2009.

Scrum in Church: Saving the World One Team at a Time,” A. Sutherland, J. Sutherland, and C. Hegarty, in Agile 2009, Chicago, 2009.

  • Scrum and Agile are not just for software development. This paper captures Arlene Sutherland’s experience in applying Scrum to churches, the challenges and the successes.

Lean Primer by Craig Larman and Bas Vodde

  • A 46-page white paper published in 2009 that captures the latest thinking on applying Lean Principles to New Product Development and software in particular.

VersionOne Agile Project Management software

Agile Raven recommends starting off using paper and pen to track your agile projects. Once you’ve mastered that process, it’s time to move on to electronic tools:

  • Enterprise Edition — The de facto standard for agile project management software.
  • Team Edition — A free, basic version of the enterprise edition. Great for teams just starting out.