Pillar Agile Resource Library

Are you leading an Agile transformation?

• The role of the CIO in an Agile Transformation by Bob Myers (Pillar).
• Leadership Readiness for an Agile World by John Huston (Pillar).
• Are you Agile Ready? by Pillar Associates.
• Seven Keys to an Agile Transformation by Bob Myers (Pillar).
• The Secret to Organizational Agility by Mike Cottmeyer (Pillar).
• Introducing an Agile Process to an Organization by Mike Cohn and Dorris Ford.

Do you need to learn more about Lean Software Development, Extreme Programming, Kanban, and Scrum?

• Lean or Kanban or Agile by Mike Cottmeyer (Pillar).
• How is the Kanban Board Different Than a Normal Agile Board? by Dennis Stevens (Pillar).
• Experiences with Kanban by Charles Suscheck (Pillar).
• The Marriage of Lean, Scrum and Extreme Programming: How to Align Agile Across an Organization by Jeoffrey Bourne.
• Principles of Lean Thinking by Mary Poppendieck (Poppendieck, LLC).

Do you want to know about common pitfalls of Agile?

• Five Symptoms of Mechanical Agile by Daryl Kulak (Pillar).
• Agile Illth by Daryl Kulak (Pillar).
• Can I do Perfect Scrum and Still Fail? by Mike Cottmeyer (Pillar).
• 10 Pitfalls of Agile Transformation by Brad Murphy and Ed Kourany (Valtech).
• How to Fail with Agile by Clinton Keith and Mike Cohn.

Are you a manager of an Agile team?

• The Agile Project Manager by Mike Cottmeyer (Pillar).
• Agile Team Lead by Patrick Wilson-Welsh (Pillar).
• Agile Team Lead Role by Patrick Wilson-Welsh (Pillar).
• Can Managers Lead Agile Teams? by Mike Cottmeyer (Pillar).
• The Manager's Role in Agile by Lyssa Adkins (cricketwing).

Do you need to learn about the role of a business analyst in Agile development?

• The Agile BA: lead, follow and get out of the way by Charlie Close (Pillar).
• The Agile Business Analyst by Mike Cottmeyer (Pillar) and V. Lee Henson.

Do you need to learn how to prioritize your portfolio of features?

• New to User Stories? by Charles Suscheck (Pillar) and William Nazzaro.
• Velocity in the Enterprise, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 by Mike Cottmeyer (Pillar).
• Five Levels of Planning by Hubert Smitts (Rally).
• Product Road-Mapping by Anupam Kundu and Tiffany Lentz (Thoughtworks).
• Focus on Value by Chris Sterling (Sterlink Barton).
• Incremental Funding by Mary Poppendieck (Poppendieck LLC)

What are the reasons for Agile?

• Two Reasons we have to Build Software Iteratively and Incrementally by Daryl Kulak (Pillar).
• Agile Trumps Offshore Alternatives Gary Gentry (Pillar).
• The Business Case for Agility by John Rudd (SolutionsIQ).
• How Agile Practices Reduce Requirements Risks by Ellen Gottesdiener (EBG Consulting).
• How Scrum Generates Increased Productivity by Laszlo Szalvay (Danube Technologies).

What is the current state of Agile?

• GAO Encourages Federal Government to Go Agile by Daryl Kulak (Pillar).
• Agile Software Development is Now Mainstream by Paul Krill (InfoWorld).
• State of Agile Survey by VersionOne.
• Agility at Scale Survey by Scott Ambler.
• Agile Practices Survey by Scott Ambler.

Techniques of Agile

• Flipping the Automated Testing Triangle by Patrick Wilson-Welsh (Pillar)
• TDD 0 to 60 - An introduction in Test Driven Development in .NET by Michael Kramer (Pillar)
• Test Driving Everything by John Huston (Pillar)
• Sneaking up on TDD and Clean Code by Patrick Wilson-Welsh (Pillar)
• Continuous Integration by Martin Fowler (Thoughtworks)
• The Dirty Secret of Pair Programming by Mendelt Siebenga

What is Pillar's take on Agile?

• Time to Save the Industry by Gary Gentry (Pillar)
• Coon Lake Warning by Gary Gentry (Pillar)
• 18 Months of Business Value by Bob Myers (Pillar)
• No Fair!! The Problems with Agile Training by Daryl Kulak (Pillar)