Getting started: Standups

One of the first techniques to introduce in the enterprise is Stand Up Meetings. Here are some links to information on them:

• Stand-up meeting from Wikipedia
• It's Not Just Standing Up: Patterns of Daily Stand-up Meetings by Jason Yip
• Rethinking Stand-Up Meetings by Steven M Smith
• Stand-up Meeting Antipatterns by Charles Miller
• The daily meeting checklist from Scrum Checklists PDF by Sprint-IT

Getting started: What is Agile anyway?

When introducing agile into a large organisation many people have no knowledge at all what agile is. Here are some resources that give a overview of agile:

• Website: What is Agility, and Why Should You Care?by Mishkin Berteig


• Website: A Brief Introduction to Agile By Jeff Langr


• Website: The New Methodology by Martin Fowler


• PDF: The Seven Principles of Lean Software Development by Mary and Tom Poppendieck


• PDF: Getting Agile with Scrum by Mike Cohn


• PDF: Extreme Programming: A Gentle Introduction.


• PDF: An Introduction to Agile Methods (XP) by Steve Hayes


• PDF (mini-book): Scrum and XP from the Trenches by Henrik Kniberg
• PDF (mini-book): Scrum Checklists by Sprint-IT

Getting started: Identify the whole team

There is lots to do when starting out a project in an Agile way, one of the first things to do is start getting the whole team together. Here are some resources on roles and responsibilities:

The business/customer/product owner:

• Being an Effective Onsite Customer or Product Owner - great description of the ideal Product Owner.
• Jeff Patton's excellent presentation: Blending User Experience & Business Analysis thinking in the Agile Customer Role
• Some typical problems and solutions a customer may face
• The need for a customer advocate