Exploring Extreme Programming
Agile Product Management with Scrum: Creating Products that Customers Love, by Roman Pichler. Addison-Wesley, 2010. This is a fairly easy read (about 120 pages) explaining the role of the Product Owner in Scrum. I’d describe the target as “someone preparing Continue reading Review – Agile Product Management with Scrum (Pichler)
The Product Manager’s Handbook, by Linda Gorchels. McGraw-Hill, 2005. This is a basic book on product management (an area which has a shortage of material). It talks about the role of product managers, planning, maintaining a portfolio, new products, pricing, Continue reading Review – The Product Manager’s Handbook, by Linda Gorchels
Structured Systems Analysis: Tools and Techniques. Chris Gane and Trish Sarson. Prentice Hall, 1979. This is one of the classic books on systems analysis: data flow diagrams, data dictionary, and so on appear. It does a decent job explaining these Continue reading Review – Structured Systems Analysis: Tools and Techniques
Summary sheet – 20 ways to split stories. Continue reading Ways to Split Stories – Summary Sheet
This is a sample set of user stories for a time management system. Continue reading User Story Examples
Example stories. Continue reading Stories for SideReel.com
A way to track estimates. Continue reading Using Actuals with Estimates
The Toyota Product Development System, James M. Morgan and Jeffrey K. Liker, Productivity Press, 2006. Toyota’s lean manufacturing system has had a lot of press, but lean influences their product development approach as well. This book emphasizes the system aspects Continue reading Review – The Toyota Product Development System
Exploring example-based specifications. Continue reading Agile ’06 Workshop: Example-Based Specifications
Lessons for Fit. Continue reading Extreme Test Makeover – Agile ’06