Scrum Resources

Since we’ve jumped on the Scrum bandwagon, I’ve been capturing Scrum related resources as I came across them and sharing them with my management peers and team. Well today I felt it was time I also share them with you… (Paying it forward and all that)

As I come across more I’ll try to update this post (as well as link to it off my main page so it’s easy to find in the future ;)

I hope these resources help you as much as they have helped me and my team…

Books

• Agile Project Management with Scrum (Microsoft Professional)
• Agile Software Development with SCRUM (Series in Agile Software Development)
• The Enterprise and Scrum
• Agile Estimating and Planning (Robert C. Martin Series) (via comment by Abby Fichtner, The Hacker Chick Blog)
• Free (reg-ware) ebook - “Scrum and XP from the Trenches” (via John Hines' Code Blog - Getting Started with Scrum)

Magazine Articles

• Scaling Scrum Meeting real-world development needs
• Introduction to Scrum
• Managing an Agile Software Project

Other Documents

• The Scrum Primer (via comment by Abby Fichtner, The Hacker Chick Blog)
• Scrum in 5 Minutes (via Peter)
• Scrum Quick Reference Card from DZone/Refcardz (via DZone – Refcardz – Scrum Reference Card)
• Scrum Master Checklist – Four pages toward helping a Scrum Master succeed (via Michael James - An example checklist for ScrumMasters)

Blog Posts

• Scrum Team Anti-patterns – How to piss off your ScrumMaster
• The Manager's Role in Agile
• Another’s journey down the TFS and Agile road…

Podcasts

• Devcasting #14 - How to Make Scrum Really Work. Audio is a little wonky, but if you can ignore that there's some good insight.
• What is Done? - A Conversation with Scrum Co-Creator Ken Schwaber. Scott chats with Ken Schwaber, the co-creator of Scrum, agile advocate and a founder of the Agile Alliance.
• The Thirsty Developer 28: SCRUM and Agile in the Enterprise

Videos

• SCRUM -- as Explained by Ken Schwaber (via Manish Agrawal - SCRUM -- as Explained by Ken Schwaber)
• What is Scrum? A funny 2:47 minute video of a Daily Scrum.

Presentation Materials

• Scrum in 90 Minutes – The Presentation

Software

Scrum for Team System

• Scrum for Team System 2.2 Released – More Reports, bug fixes, SQL Server 2008 and new Report Slide Show feature
• Mix a little WPF, with some Scrum and dash of TFS and you get... Task Board for Scrum for Team System Beta 2 Released
• Task Board for Scrum for Team System (SfTS) Beta Released
• Scrum for Team System (SfTS) WPF based Sprint Task Board utility coming soon…
• Want some help getting started with Scrum for Team System 2? Well here you go…
• Scrum for Team System (SfTS) Work Item Migration Utility Released (SfTS 1.x/2.x to SfTS 2.1)
• Scrum for Team System v2.1 Released
• Scrum for Team System V2 (TFS 2008) RTM
• Scrum 1.1 for Team System/TFS Released
• Free Scrum Process Template for TFS

Scrum For Team System Quickboard (A personal project)

• First/Alpha release of my Scrum for Team System Quickboard Project (Think “10 foot SfTS Dashboard”)

Light Weight Scrum (Team System)

• Light Weight Scrum 2008 (aka VSTS Scrum or Scrum Community Process Template) v2.1 Released
• Templex – The Process Template sharing project we’ve (TFS’ers) have all been waiting for?

eScrum for Team System

• eScrum TFS Template v1.1 Released
• Microsoft eScrum 1.0 for Team Foundation Server Released

My Scrum Stories & Posts (that are not already in the above lists)

• The eternal question, what are “Unit Tests” and are they if they talk to the database/file system/etc?
• Scrum Sprint 1 - Week 3 - Reevaluating “Done”
• Scrum Sprint 1, Week 2 – A rolling stone gathers no moss (aka the Scare Factor of having a timeboxed integration)
• Are you “really” using Scrum?
• Sprint Day 1 – Here we GO!
• Scrum Day [Decision + 1 Week] – Passion versus Religion
• Scrum Day [Subscript out of range] – Time for a minor reset, I’m pushing back the Sprint Planning Meeting by a week…
• Scrum Day 0 – The Search for ScrumMaster
• Scrum Day -1 - Infrastructure Day
• Scrum Day -2 - The Decision is Made

Humor

• [Humor] Building airplanes the Scrum way
• What is Scrum? A funny 2:47 minute video of a Daily Scrum.

PS. As I have been gathering these resources for a bit, if I missed a “(via”, reference, link back, shout-out, etc, please accept my apologies (and let me know so I can fix it… :)

Update 7/31/2008:
Added:
The Scrum Primer (via comment by Abby Fichtner, The Hacker Chick Blog)
Scrum Team Anti-patterns – How to piss off your ScrumMaster
Devcasting #14 - How to Make Scrum Really Work

Update 8/11/2008:
Added:
eScrum TFS Template v1.1 Released

Update 8/15/2008:
Added:
Mix a little WPF, with some Scrum and dash of TFS and you get... Task Board for Scrum for Team System Beta 2 Released

Update 10/15/2008:
Added
Scrum for Team System 2.2 Released – More Reports, bug fixes, SQL Server 2008 and new Report Slide Show feature

Update 4/17/2009:
Added
Free (reg-ware) ebook - “Scrum and XP from the Trenches” (via John Hines' Code Blog - Getting Started with Scrum)

Update 4/21/2009:
Added Scrum Quick Reference Card from DZone/Refcardz (via DZone – Refcardz – Scrum Reference Card)

Update 4/25/2009:
Added First/Alpha release of my Scrum for Team System Quickboard Project (Think “10 foot SfTS Dashboard”)

Update 5/9/2009:
Added Scrum Master Checklist – Four pages toward helping a Scrum Master succeed (via Michael James - An example checklist for ScrumMasters)

Update 7/27/2009:
Added What is Scrum? A funny 2:47 minute video of a Daily Scrum.