The page contains various resources intended for participants in ScrumCenter GmbH Certified Scrum Product Owner courses.

An Agile and Lean Bibliography

Here is a list of Scrum, Agile and related books that we recommend:

Leadership and Management

• Appelo, J., 2010, Management 3.0: Leading Agile Developers, Developing Agile Leaders, Addison-Wesley.
• Coens, T. & Jenkins, M., 2002. Abolishing Performance Appraisals: Why They Backfire and What to Do Instead, Berrett-Koehler Publishers.
• Kotter, J., 1996. Leading Change, Mcgraw-Hill.
• Lencioni, P., 2002. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable, John Wiley & Sons.
• Olson, Edwin E. & Eoyang, Glenda H., 2001. Facilitating Organization Change: Lessons from Complexity Science, John Wiley & Sons.
• Pink, D., 2009. Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, Riverhead Hardcover.
• Poppendiek, M. & Poppendiek, T., 2009. Leading Lean Software Development: Results are Not the Point, Addison-Wesley.
• Schwarz, R., 1994. The Skilled Facilitator: A Comprehensive Resource for Consultants, Facilitators, Managers, Trainers and Coaches, Jossey Bass.
• Snowden, D. & Boone, M. A Leader's Framework for Decision Making. Harvard Business Review, November 2007.
• Takeuchi, H. & Nonaka, I., 1986. The new new product development game, Harvard Business Review, January-February 1986.
• Womack, J. & Jones, T., 2003. Lean Thinking - Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation, Free Press.

Agile and Scrum

• Cohn, M., 2004. User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development, Addison Wesley.
• Cohn, M., 2005. Agile Estimating and Planning, Prentice Hall.
• Cohn, M., 2009. Succeeding with Agile - Software Development using Scrum, Addison Wesley.
• Derby, E. & Larsen, D., 2006. Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great, The Pragmatic Bookshelf.
• Gloger, B., 2008. Scrum. Produkte zuverlässig und schnell entwickeln, Hanser.
• Krebs, J., 2008, Agile Portfolio Management, Microsoft Press.
• Pichler, R., 2007. Scrum - Agiles Projektmanagement erfolgreich einsetzen, dpunkt.verlag.
• Pichler, R. 2010. Agile Product Management with Scrum: Creating Products That Customers Love, Addison-Wesley.

Agile Architecture and Development

• Beck, K., 2003. Test-Driven Development By Example, Addison-Wesley.
• Belshee, A., 2005. Promiscuous Pairing and Beginner's Mind: Embrace Inexperience, Proceedings of the Agile Development Conference, pages 125-131, IEEE Computer Society. http://svn.arlim.org/arlo_papers/Promiscuous%20pairing/Agile%202005/paper.doc
• Coplien, J. & Bjørnvig, G., 2010. Lean Architecture - for Agile Software Development, John Wiley & Sons.
• Feathers, M., 2007. Working Effectively with Legacy Code, Prentice Hall.
• Fowler, M., 1999. Refactoring – Improving the Design of Existing Code. Addison-Wesley.
• Freeman, S. & Pryce, N., 2009. Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided By Tests, Addison-Wesley.
• Grenning, J.W., 2010. Test Driven Development for Embedded C, The Pragmatic Bookshelf.
• Kerievsky, J., 2004. Refactoring to Patterns, Addison-Wesley.
• Koskela, L., 2007. Test Driven: TDD and Acceptance TDD for Java Developers, Manning Publications.
• Martin, R.C., 2008. Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship, Prentice Hall.
• Meszaros, G., 2007. xUnit Test Patterns: Refactoring Test Code, Prentice Hall.
• Olsen, P.R., 2009. For Writing Software a Buddy System, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/20/jobs/20pre.html?_r=2, The New York Times.
• Wake, W.C., 2003. Refactoring Workbook, Addison-Wesley.
• Westphal, F., 2005. Testgetriebene Entwicklung mit JUnit & FIT, dpunkt.verlag.
• Williams, L., 2002. Pair Programming Illuminated. Addison-Wesley.

Templates

• Simple product backlog with product/release burn down and velocity diagrams
• Simple sprint backlog with sprint burn down diagram
• Product backlog with index card generator (from Henrik Kniberg's blog)
• Managing Product Development ROI with Discounted Cash Flow (Spreadsheet)

Articles, White Papers and Conference Presentations

• Mathis, Roberts, Weiß. Surviving SOX with Scrum. Stockholm Scrum Gathering, October 2008 and XP Days Hamburg, November 2008.
• Hastreiter, Mathis, Roberts. Leuchtfeuer entzünden. Einführung von Scrum bei der Allianz Deutschland AG. ObjektSpektrum January 2009.
• Hirotaka Takeuchi & Ikujiro Nonaka. The New New Product Development Game. Harvard Business Review, January 1986.
• David J. Snowden, Mary E. Boone. Leader's Framework for Decision Making. Harvard Business Review, November 2007.
• Fred Wilson, AVC - Musings of a VC in NYC: How to Calculate a Return on Investment.
• Techniques for Estimating Large Product Backlogs.
• Summary of Agile Portfolio Management by Jochim Krebs (Microsoft Press).

Discussion Groups

There are two Yahoo dicussion groups that are important for people applying Scrum in Germany. We recommend that you join both:

• http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scrumdevelopment/ - is the English language group and is a great place for asking questions.
• http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/deutschescrum/ - is the German language group with less traffic but still worth following.

Agile Tuesday - Scrum User Group Munich

You would be very welcome at "Agile Tuesday" - the Scrum User Group Munich, which normally meets on the 2nd Tuesday of each month at the Conti Bistro in Max-Joseph-Strasse 5. Please check http://agiletuesday.org or ask us for the latest information.

There are several other Scrum user groups in Germany. Please visit the Scrum Alliance site (http://scrumalliance.org) to find your nearest one.