Resources

Articles:

Our first 5 recommendations:

The New New Product Development Game by Takeuchi and Nonaka.

Leading Fearless Change by Manns and Rising.

Rolling out Agile at a Large Enterprise  Excellent article by Gabrielle Benefield at Yahoo!

The Concept of "Ba" by Nonaka and Konno.

Scrum and CMMI - Going from Good to Great by Jakobsen and Sutherland.

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Some other Agile articles:

Nonaka etal 2000 SECI,   Ikujiro Nonaka, Ryoko Toyama and Noboru Konno

Distributed Scrum: Agile Project Management with Outsourced Development Teams, HICSS 2007

Fully Distributed Scrum: The Secret Sauce for Hyperproductive Offshored Development Teams, Sutherland, Schoonheim, Rusternburg and Rijk

Work on One Project  A slide to convince people to do less task-switching.

Generic Iteration Backlog2.xls  Basic Scrum "tool" by Joe Little.

 

Managing Change (Surfing the Wave), by Joe Little.

 

Ssh! We are adding a process… , by Mark Striebeck, Google Inc.  

Mature Agile with a twist of CMMI, by Carsten Ruseng Jakobsen, Kent Aaron Johnson

Scrum and CMMI Level 5: The Magic Potion for Code Warriors (Systematic) by Jeff Sutherland, Ph.D., Carsten Ruseng Jakobsen and Kent Johnson

Communication Nodes

 

Rapid Software Development through Team Collocation, by Teasley, Covi, Krishnan, Olson

 

How Does Radical Collocation Help a Team Succeed?, by Teasley, Covi, Krishnan, Olson

 

Agile Specification Quality Control, by Tom Glib.  reprinted from TE magazine, March 2009

 

Experiences with Defect Prevention, by R. G. Mays, C. L. Jones, G. J. Holloway, D. P. Studinski

 

Sutherland articles at Agile2009:

Scrum and CMMI: Going from Good to Great , by Jakobsen and Sutherland
Take No Prisoners , by Sutherland and Altman
Shock Therapy, by Sutherland, Downey and Granvik
Scrum in Church, by Rev. Arlene Conan Sutherland, Jeff Sutherland and Christine Hegarty
Fully Distributed Scrum by Sutherland, Schoonheim, N. Kumar, V. Pandey, S. Vishal

Organizational Transformation with Scrum: How a Venture Capital Group Gets Twice as Much Done with Half the Work, by Sutherland and Altman

 

Harvard Business Review Articles:

(see Harvard Business Articles for Educators.  Cost about $6 per article)
One More Time: How Do You Motivate Employees, Frederick Herzberg

The New New Product Development Game, Takeuchi & Nonaka

The Knowledge-Creating Company by Nonaka (Cf the book by Takeuchi and Nonaka)
The Contradictions that drive Toyota's success by Takeuchi and others. (Cf the book Extreme Toyota by Takeuchi and others)

 

More articles:

Want Better Software? Just Ask., by Mike Cohn

What is of value to customer?, by John Kelly and Steven Male

The Five Business Value Commandments, by Chris Matts and Andy Pols

 

For more articles, see here:

http://www.agilealliance.org/articles

Tons of articles