Andrew Stellman, Jennifer Greene - Learning Agile [2014, PDF, ENG]

Chapter 1. Learning Agile
What Is Agile?
Who Should Read This Book
Our Goals for This Book
Getting Agile into Your Brain by Any Means Necessary
How This Book Is Structured

Chapter 2. Understanding Agile Values
A Team Lead, Architect, and Project Manager Walk into a Bar...
No Silver Bullet
Agile to the Rescue! (Right?)
A Fractured Perspective
The Agile Manifesto Helps Teams See the Purpose Behind Each Practice
Understanding the Elephant
Where to Start with a New Methodology

Chapter 3. The Agile Principles
The 12 Principles of Agile Software
The Customer Is Always Right...Right?
Delivering the Project
Communicating and Working Together
Project Execution—Moving the Project Along
Constantly Improving the Project and the Team
The Agile Project: Bringing All the Principles Together

Chapter 4. Scrum and Self-Organizing Teams
The Rules of Scrum
Act I: I Can Haz Scrum?
Everyone on a Scrum Team Owns the Project
Act II: Status Updates Are for Social Networks!
The Whole Team Uses the Daily Scrum
Act III: Sprinting into a Wall
Sprints, Planning, and Retrospectives
Act IV: Dog Catches Car

Chapter 5. Scrum Planning and Collective Commitment
Act V: Not Quite Expecting the Unexpected
User Stories, Velocity, and Generally Accepted Scrum Practices
Act VI: Victory Lap
Scrum Values Revisited

Chapter 6. XP and Embracing Change
Act I: Going into Overtime
The Primary Practices of XP
Act II: The Game Plan Changed, but We’re Still Losing
The XP Values Help the Team Change Their Mindset
An Effective Mindset Starts with the XP Values
Act III: The Momentum Shifts
Understanding the XP Principles Helps You Embrace Change

Chapter 7. XP, Simplicity, and Incremental Design
Act IV: Going into Overtime, Part 2: Second Overtime
Code and Design
Make Code and Design Decisions at the Last Responsible Moment
Incremental Design and the Holistic XP Practices
Act V: Final Score

Chapter 8. Lean, Eliminating Waste, and Seeing the Whole
Lean Thinking
Act I: Just One More Thing...
Creating Heroes and Magical Thinking
Eliminate Waste
Gain a Deeper Understanding of the Product
Deliver As Fast As Possible

Chapter 9. Kanban, Flow, and Constantly Improving
Act II: Playing Catch-Up
The Principles of Kanban
Improving Your Process with Kanban
Measure and Manage Flow
Emergent Behavior with Kanban

Chapter 10. The Agile Coach
Act III: Just One More Thing (Again?!)...
Coaches Understand Why People Don’t Always Want to Change
Coaches Understand How People Learn
Coaches Understand What Makes a Methodology Work
The Principles of Coaching