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The New Methodology by Martin Fowler

Definitions of Agile Software Development

Wikipedia Definition
c2.com Definition

Websites


Agile Alliance www.agilealliance.org
Agile Manifesto www.agilemanifesto.org
Agile Modeling www.agilemodeling.com
Crystal alistair.cockburn.us/crystal/crystal.html
DSDM www.dsdm.org
Extreme Programming www.xprogramming.com
www.extremeprogramming.org
www.xp123.com
www.industrialxp.org
Feature-Driven Development (FDD) www.featuredrivendevelopment.com
Lean Development www.poppendieck.com/index.htm
Scrum www.controlchaos.com
www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/scrum
www.scrumalliance.com

Books on Agile Development

Agile Software Development


Cockburn, Alistair. Agile Software Development. Boston: Addison-Wesley, 2002.
Highsmith, Jim. Agile Software Development Ecosystems. Boston: Addison-Wesley, 2002.
Martin, Robert. Agile Software Development, Principles, Patterns, and Practices. Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2002.

Agile Development Management


Cohn, Mike. Agile Estimating and Planning. Prentice Hall, 2005.
Anderson, David J. Agile Management for Software Engineering - Applying the Theory of Constraints for Business Results. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2004.
Highsmith, Jim. Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products. Pearson Education, 2004.
Larman, Craig. Agile and Iterative Development: A Manager's Guide. Boston: Addison-Wesley, 2003.

Crystal


Cockburn, Alistair. Crystal Clear: A Human Powered Methodology for Small Teams. Boston: Addison-Wesley, 2004.

DSDM


DSDM Consortium, et al. DSDM: Business Focused Development, Second Edition. Boston: Addison-Wesley, 2003.

Extreme Programming


Beck, Kent. Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change. Boston: Addison-Wesley, 2000.
Beck, Kent, Martin Fowler. Planning Extreme Programming. Boston: Addison-Wesley, 2000.
Cohn, Mike. User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development. Boston: Addison-Wesley, 2004.
Jeffries, Ron, Ann Anderson and Chet Hendrickson. Extreme Programming Installed. Boston: Addison-Wesley, 2001

Feature-Driven Development (FDD)


Palmer, Stephen, and Felsing, John M. A Practical Guide to Feature-Driven Development. Prentice-Hall, 2002.

Lean Development


Poppendieck, Mary, and Poppendieck, Tom. Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit for Software Development Managers. Boston: Addison-Wesley.

Scrum


Schwaber, Ken, Mike Beedle. Agile Software Development with Scrum. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2002.
Schwaber, Ken. Agile Project Management with Scrum. Redmond, WA: Microsoft Press, 2004.
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