Agile & Lean

Agile & Lean processes, artifacts, hints, and tips

arSensa Course Handouts & Diagrams

• Corporate Structure, Component Teams, & Conway's Law
• Backlog Refinement
• Estimation
• Sprint Planning
• Daily Stand Ups/Scrums
• Sprint Review/Demo
• Retrospectives
• Larger Projects
• Tracking
• Scrum Diagram (svg)
• Agile at Scale Pyramid
• Agile Scaling Patterns
• Shape Point Exercise
• Course Simulation Examples

General

• Agile at 20: The Failed Rebellion [A. Tenhundfeld]
• Agile Pain Relief: Glossary and Reference Library
• menu_book  User Story Mapping, J. Patton
• 9 Practices that Haunt Developers Working with Scrum [Willem-Jan Ageling]
• The SAFe Delusion

Estimation

• The Science of Agile Development (Estimation) [L. Mahadik]
• Software Estimation is Hard. Do It Anyway. [Jacobian]
• Pointing Poker (Tool)
• Why deadlines are pointless and what to do instead [Lucas F. Costa]

Lean, Kanban, & WIP

• Lean Construction: 3 Keys to Unlocking Lean in the Field [T. Creed]
• 10 Kanban Boards and Their Context [Crisp]
• menu_book  Kanban, David J. Anderson
• The Official Guide to the Kanban Method [Kanban University]
• Limiting Work in Progress (Discussion) [HN]

Scrum

• Agile Product Ownership in a Nutshell [H. Kniberg]
• menu_book  Scrum and XP from the Trenches, Henrik Kniberg
• The Scrum Guide
• Scrum Alliance (Certification Body)
• How Big Tech Runs Tech Projects and the Curious Absence of Scrum
• 7 Skills You Need to Be a Great Product Owner [Lowell Lindstrom]
• Am I a Product Manager or a Product Owner? [Ellen Gottesdiener]
• menu_book  Agile Retrospectives, Esther Derby & Diana Larson
• Easy Retro (Tool)

Development Processes

Best practices in coding and coding in teams

General

• The Code Review Pyramid
• Dad and the Ten Commandments of Egoless Programming [S. Wyatt]
• The One Thing Every Company Can Do to Reduce Technical Debt [E. Dietrich]
• Peter Norvig's Essays
• The 'flawed five' engineering productivity metrics [Abi Noda]
• A dev's thoughts on developer productivity [Beyang Liu]
• Top 9 qualities of clean code [Pawel Bejger]
• A Taxonomy of Tech Debt
• Continuous Deployment at Instagram
• Database Testing: How to Regression Test a Relational Database [Scott Ambler]
• menu_book  Refactoring Databases: Evolutionary Database Design, Scott Ambler and Pramod Sadalage
• 10 Tips For Text Layouts [Dan Glow]
• Curated Resource List for CTOs
• Curated List of Software and Architecture Design Patterns [Dov Amir]

Tools

• 15 Best Jira Dashboard Examples [N. Godwin]
• WordSafety: check name meanings in foreign languages

Python

Python articles, tools, and libraries

General

• Pentestly: Python Penetration Testing
• Real Python: Learn Python from the ground up
• Talk Python Podcast
• What's in which Python [Ned Batchelder]
• pythex: Python regex tool [Gabriel Rodriguez]
• Things You Must Know About Django Admin As Your App Gets Bigger [Haki Benita]
• Sphinx RST Cheat Sheet for Python Docstrings [Christopher Trudeau]

Libraries & Projects

• Python libraries to make your code readable, reliable and maintainable [Isaak Uchakaev]
• 12 Python Data Visualization Libraries to Explore for Business Analysis [Melissa Bierly]
• Awesome Python: curated list of frameworks, libraries, and resources
• Generating Fake Data for Python Unit Tests with Faker [Amos Omondi]