Links

This is a list of my favorite links

Agile

Conferences and Learning
• Submission Tips | Agile Alliance
• Writing Learning Objectives
• Writing Course Goals/Learning Outcomes and Learning Objectives – Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching
• How to Write Headlines: A Step-by-Step Guide
• 5 Steps to Writing Clear and Measurable Learning Objectives
Blogs and Sites
• ClassZ Agile
• AlignTech Solutions - Agile Coaching and Agile Training • AlignTech
• Agile Conferences
Atlassian
• Atlassian - Home - CertMetrics
• Get Certified | Atlassian
• Training - Atlassian Training
• Here Be Dragons - Atlassian Documentation
• "Team building" activities that work | Atlassian Team Playbook
• Atlassian Agile Coach
• ‎The Continuous Delivery Podcast on Apple Podcasts
• Scrum Alliance - Transforming the World of Work
• Scrum.org | Training, Assessments, Certifications - Scrum.org
• Lean Agile Training | Certified ScrumMaster training | Agile Training
• Management 3.0 | Agile Leadership Practices
• Ken Schwaber's Blog: Telling It Like It Is
• derailleur consulting, inc. - Home
• James Shore: Change-Diary
• Home | Agendashift™
• Gargoyle Software
• Agile Resources Library| Agile Pain Relief
• ADAPTOVATE - Agile Coaching & Business Design
• Welcome! - BetaCodex Network
• Something Agile Lean Something | Entertaining educational posters about agile and lean concepts and techniques
• yourcoachingbrain | Just another WordPress.com site
Coach & Scrum Master
Leadership
• Intent-Based Leadership in a VUCA world | LinkedIn
• IBL Principles - David Marquet
• Infographic: 50 Cognitive Biases in the Modern World
• Leadership skills: 12 cognitive biases to be mindful of when decision-making
• 7 Brutal Truths About Leadership Not Too Many People Want to Hear
• Cognitive bias cheat sheet. Because thinking is hard. | by Buster Benson | Better Humans | Medium
• Misinformation and biases infect social media, both intentionally and accidentally
• 5 Steps to avoid Imposter syndrome for Agile Coaches
• 7 Habits of Highly Empathetic Coaches - DZone Agile
• Agile - best practices and tutorials The Agile Coach
• Know How To Use the Karpman Drama Triangle to Solve Conflicts | TheMindFool
• Authentic Happiness | Authentic Happiness
• How Neuroscience is Changing Coaching | Free Video Series
• Do you know Albert Mehrabian's "7 38 55 Rule" on communication?
• Albert Mehrabian: nonverbal communication thinker | The British Library
• Leadership Nudge Archives - Intent-Based Leadership® International with L David Marquet
• Giving and Receiving feedback and advise- Damon Poole - YouTube
• How to give feedback effectively: A guide for managers — Quartz at Work
• 5 Ways of Giving Feedback Effectively | by David Pereira | Serious Scrum | Oct, 2021 | Medium
• Resources | Conscious Leadership Group
• 8 Steps for More Resilient Leadership | CCL
• Leadership Myths - Part 1
• Boss vs Leader: 10 Crucial Differences | Alvernia University
• 6 Leadership Styles from Daniel Goleman, the Author of the “Leadership That Gets Results”
• The Five Levels of Leadership - Leadership Circle
Coaching
• Agile Coaching Charter - Agile Coaching Charter
• Guidelines to hiring a professional Coach |
• How to Hire an Agile Coach - Jason Little
• 9 Common Mistakes in Hiring an Agile Coach - Berteig Consulting and Training
• Why Business Leaders Hire Coaches | LinkedIn
• 8 Ways to Measure Your Impact as an Agile Coach · Illustrated Agile
• Agile Coach - measure effect of
• Transformation Leaders: Stop Failing/Start Measuring  — Lean Agile Intelligence
• How Can You Tell if an Agile Coach is Effective
• Agile Leaders as Coaches - The Key to Successful Agile Transformations - CC Pace
• Clear Impact Consulting Group – Medium
• (5) The Agile Coach Role Needs a Pivot | LinkedIn
• Coaching teams that do not want to be coached – Context specific agile, product, and systems coaching – Context specific agile, product, and systems coaching
• Agile Coaching Growth Wheel – Your map for growing in the profession of Agile Coaching
• Agile Coaching Circles Meetup
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• Agile-Facilitation-Stance.pdf
• A new perspective on the Agile Coaching Competency Framework.
• 10 Deadly Mistakes We All Do With Coaching Questions
• How to Apply the Wheel of Life in Coaching
• Wheel of Life | Free Online Assessment
• The Emotion Wheel: What It Is and How to Use It [+PDF]
• My Coaching Toolkit – 100+ Exercises, Assessments and Resources – Toby Sinclair
• How to Develop Empathy for Someone Who Annoys You
• Why Are We All So Stupid? Episode 3 - Business Insider
• Using Brainwriting For Rapid Idea Generation — Smashing Magazine
• What is Brainwriting? A great Brainstorming technique | toolshero
• Brainwriting - Creativity Tools From MindTools.com
• Thinking By Sprinting: What Cognitive Science Tells Us About Why Scrum Works | Scrum.org
• When Cultures Collide | Jeff Suderman
• CoachingSaga - Empathy Map for Self-Retrospective
• In-Depth: What a Social Systems Perspective Teaches us About Change | Scrum.org
• A Leader's Guide to Culture-Shaping: Repertoire of Values — Agile Moose
• The 4Cs Map: A Brain-Based Instructional Design and Delivery Model | Training from the BACK of the Room!
• Management Time: Who’s Got the Monkey?
• Radical Inclusion
• The 25 Drives Grid - Shiftup
• Untold Stories. What are they not telling you? | by Sjoerd Nijland | Serious Scrum | Sep, 2022 | Medium
• Boost Your Productivity With the Zeigarnik Effect
• Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS): Critical Thinking and Inclusive Discussion
• How to Ask Good Questions: 5 Ways to Discover the Truth
• How to Ask Bad Questions: 5 Questions to Avoid
ECMP
• Agile Transformation | Agile Transformation Coaching | Leadership Development | Trans4mation Coach
• Room Enterprise Cohort #2 • MURAL
• Leadership Circle Profile
• Enneagram
• Complimentary Enneagram Results - GroupMind Express
• What Is the Enneagram of Personality? | Truity
• Navigating Perspectives in Meetings, Part 1 - Video 1 - Introduction
• Navigating Perspectives in Meetings, Part 2 - Video 4 - The View from Your Perspective
• What Is Your Native Perspective? – Integral Life
• Get Your Type
• Type Nine — The Enneagram Institute
• Six Games to Envision the Company Culture You Want | XPLANE Consulting
• Leadership Development Results That Matter | CCL | Learn More
• Discovery Cards $24 | XPLANE Consulting
• Sobol
• Part 1: 12 Focusing Questions for Agile Coaches
• Part 2: 12 Focusing Questions for Agile Coaches
• 8 Reasons Why Employees Resist Change - YouTube
ICE AL
• Profi - course material
• ICE-AL - Oct 2022, Online Whiteboard for Visual Collaboration
• Polarity Assessment | Welcome to Polarity Partnerships, your home for Polarity Maps and Polarity Assessments
• Polarity Thinking – Part 1 & Part 2: A Conversation with Barry Johnson - YouTube
• The Power of Polarity Thinking. Including The Enneagram Polarities | by Clear Impact Consulting Group | Medium
Sprint Planning
• A typical Sprint Planning checklist | by Stephen Waring | Agile Batman | Dec, 2021 | Medium
• A guide to sprint planning (using miro) | by Stephen Waring | Jun, 2022 | Agile Batman
• This is how you achieve perfect sprint planning. | by David Theil | Serious Scrum | Sep, 2022 | Medium
• Nine Sprint Goal Principles — Age-of-Product.com | Food for Agile Thought
Daily Scrum
• It's Not Just Standing Up: Patterns for Daily Standup Meetings
• Is this your burn down chart? :: ScrumDesk – scrum project management tool
• Story Based Burn Down
• How To Do A Damn Good Daily Standup Meeting | Agile, Data, APIs, startups and more
• The Daily Scrum is a Planning Meeting...Not a Status MeetingJeremy Jarrell
• Going Beyond Three Questions with the Daily Scrum | Scrum.org
• The daily scrum meeting: Overview, best practices, anti-patterns - LogRocket Blog
• Collaborative Daily Scrum - An Alternate to 3 Questions Based Daily Scrum
• YDS: How Do You Facilitate the Daily Scrum without the 3 Questions? | Scrum.org
• How to Avoid Meaningless Daily Scrums | by David Pereira | Aug, 2022 | Bootcamp
• Daily Scrums: 10 Ways to Improve Your Standups
• Daily Stand-up: Why it's time to ditch the '3 questions' - Zen Ex Machina
• Improv brings improvements to agile team standup meetings - SD Times
Sprint Review
• Blog: It’s a Sprint Review Not a Sprint Demo! - Innolution
• Why you should never call the Sprint Review the Sprint Demo | by Maarten Dalmijn | Serious Scrum | Medium
• Should Scrum Teams Go for Multiple Demos within a Sprint
• Team Demo « Scaled Agile Framework
• ScrumCrazy - Executive Summary - The Sprint Review
• ScrumCrazy - Worst Practice - The Sprint Review as a Signoff Meeting
• ScrumCrazy - Tips for a Good Sprint Review
• Successful Sprint Reviews - Scrum Alliance
• The Sprint Review: Mastering the Art of Feedback - Scrum Alliance
• Dancing to the tune of the Scrum Demo | Transient Technology
• How to run a Sprint Review
• Scrum - Sprint Review Demo Meeting and Retrospective - Mitch Lacey & Associates - Scrum and Agile Training
• Improving Sprint Reviews With Liberating Structures (Variant One) - DZone Agile
• Sprint Reviews in Practice | Agile Zone
• Handling Work Left at the End of an Agile Sprint
• Curing TANS: a corporate disease that is your handicap to value | by Sander Dur | Serious Scrum | Medium
• Unengaged Stakeholders — Making Your Scrum Work #25 | Food for Agile Thought
Retropsective
• The 5 stages of a retrospective
• Retrospectives | Scrumology
• Retrospective Prime Directive
• PrimingPrimeDirective
• RetrospectiveKeyQuestions.html
• Scrum Retrospective 1 - Setting The Stage - Scrum tips
• Scrum Retrospective 2 - Gather Data - Scrum tips
• Scrum Retrospective 3 - Generate Insights - Scrum tips
• Scrum Retrospective 4 – Decide What To Do - Scrum tips
• Scrum Retrospective 5 – Close The Retrospective - Scrum tips
• What is KAIZEN™
• Agile and Kaizen. How to implement a real continuous improvement process with Scrum | 20tab's blog | Development & Growth Marketing
• Retrospective Plans - Agile Retrospective Resource Wiki
• Retr-O-Mat - Inspiration & plans for (agile) retrospectives
• An Easy Guide for your next Timeline Retrospective | Anablava Ligataj | Medium
• A Retrospective Timeline – thekua.com@rest
• Retrospectives | Chris Stone - The Virtual Agile Coach
• The Retrospective Collective, Online Whiteboard for Visual Collaboration
• Sprint Retrospective Techniques | The Upward Spiral
• Sprint Retrospective Techniques 2 | The Upward Spiral
• Sprint Retrospective Techniques 3 | The Upward Spiral
• Retrospective Prime Directive in many languages - Ben Linders
• Why Zombie Scrum Teams Struggle To Improve Continuously | by Zombie Scrum Resistance | The Liberators | Medium
• Retrospective Handbook by Patrick Kua [Leanpub PDF/iPad/Kindle]
• The Four Questions of a Retrospective and Why They Work - DZone Agile
• Retrospective and Clean Feedback
• Effective Sprint Retrospectives
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• Retrospective Smells: Passiveness - Ben Linders
• goReflect | Free Online Retrospectives
• 21 Sprint Retrospective Anti-Patterns Impeding Scrum Teams | LinkedIn
• Main reason your agile retrospectives don't work
• Retrospectives Gone Bad – Toronto Agile Conference 2020 | Agile Pain Relief Consulting
• Why Zombie Scrum Teams Struggle To Improve Continuously | by Zombie Scrum Resistance | The Liberators | Medium
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• How to Apply Appreciative Inquiry: A Visual Guide
• Appreciative Retrospective | Pearls of Wisdom
• Appreciative Inquiry Retrospectives | 8th Light
• An Appreciative Retrospective | AYE Conference
• How You Can Keep Scrum Positive - DZone Agile
• Liberating Structures - 6. TRIZ
• Agile2019 Retrospective with a twist (or Liberating Structures for the win!)
• The Agile Project Manager—The Secret Sauce: Team Appreciation — RGalen Consulting
• Applying Cynefin in Agile Retrospective
• What is a Futurespective?
CoP
• Scrum Master Community of Practice | Agile Demystified
• Introduction to communities of practice - wenger-trayner
• A ScrumMasters' CoP Start-Up - Scrum Alliance
• Agile Sustainability using Communities of Practice - Illustrated Agile
• Starting a Community of Practice? Here are 3 Mistakes You Can Avoid. | by Iris Bröse | Agile Insider | Medium
• Cultivate Communities of Practice
• The ScrumMaster's Performance and Development - Scrum Alliance
• » Hansei – 反省 Kirainet.com – A geek in Japan
• How Do You End a Meeting? Netflix’s HR Rebel Asks Two Simple Questions | Bob Sutton | LinkedIn
Scrum of Scrums
• Scrum of Scrums: Its Agenda and Purpose
• Advice on Conducting the Scrum of Scrums Meeting - Scrum Alliance
• Using Scrum of Scrums with Agile Teams to Coordinate and Collaborate
• The 3-5-3 Structure of Scrum
• Agile Leadership Network - Accelerate Agility: Connect and Engage to Transform Your Enterprise
• Fidelity – The Lost Dimension of the Iron TriangleAvailAgility | AvailAgility
• ATDD From the Trenches
• Alistair.Cockburn.us | Shu Ha Ri
• Agile Commentary: What is Shu Ha Ri?
• Technical Articles for Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management
• Disciplined Agile Consortium - Posters
• Manage the Growing Pains of Scaling an Agile Team | 352 Blog
• All Things Disciplined Agile
• Process Goals | Disciplined Agile Delivery
• 5 Scrum Master interview questions you MUST KNOW - ScrumMastered
• Agile and Scrum Master Interview Questions | Agile Questions Asked in 2015
• How to choose a Scrum Sprint Length (shorter beats longer)
• ScrumMaster Checklist
• Checklist - Agile Partnership
• Sprint Events Are Not a Waste (Unless Done Wrong!)
• The 4 Scrum Ceremonies Made Simple: A Quick Guide To Scrum Meetings
• Scrum Master: The Master of the Art of Facilitation | Scrum.org
• What Servant Leadership Is Not | INSEAD Knowledge
• What responsibilities can Scrum Masters let go of? – MindsMapped
• How Many Scrum Teams Can A Scrum Master Serve? | by Britta Ollrogge, MBA | Oct, 2021 | Product Coalition
• A Guide to Timeboxing | Lucidchart Blog
• Scrum Master Anti-Patterns - Stefan Wolpers - Medium
• 5 Pointless Versions of Scrum Masters | by David Pereira | Serious Scrum | Aug, 2022 | Medium
• Don't forget to read this: Pass the Scrum Master Certification — Age-of-Product.comAge of ProductAge of Product
• Hitler at a sprint review - YouTube
Teams
Team Structure
• The First Question To Ask When Building Teams - Is This Really A Team? - The Agile Coach's Guide To The Galaxy
• Stop Wasting Money on Team Building
• Organizing software teams | The Startup
• Roles on Agile Teams: From Small to Large Teams
• Scaling Agile @ Spotify with Tribes, Squads, Chapters & Guilds - Crisp's Blog
• Defining Distributed, Remote, Co-located, and Dislocated Teams — by David Sabine
• Your Team is Smarter Than You Are: Why Autonomous Product Teams Work Better - Mind the Product
• Applying Brooks' Law to Lines of Communication and Team SizeLeadingAgile
• Concept 8: Metcalfe’s Law and Network Effects | THE RELIANTS PROJECT
• Larman's Laws of Organizational Behavior - Craig Larman
• What Is unFIX? — unFIX
• Pipedrive Unfixed (Case Study of a Unicorn Company) — unFIX
• 3 Inflection Points for Startup Teams
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• A journey of Agile teams | Agile Batman
• How to Structure a Data Science Team: Key Models and Roles | AltexSoft
• Using Agile with a Data Science Team
• Confreaks TV | A Clear-Eyed Look at Distributed Teams - RailsConf 2017
• Structuring for Change: The Dual Operating System - Business Agility
• You don’t need testers, here's why! | by Guillaume Camus | ManoMano Tech Team | Medium
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• Team Topologies | Atlassian
• How teams are organized will influences your product more than you might realize.
• The Five Orders of scaling agile teams | by Carl J Rogers | Agile Insider | Oct, 2022 | Medium
• A de-scaling roadmap for agile teams | by Carl J Rogers | Oct, 2022 | Medium
• Operating Models: the theory and the practice. | Sergio Caredda
• Scrum Team Size - How Big? How Small? | Agile Pain Relief
• In-Depth: What Is The Optimal Size For A Scrum Team? | by Christiaan Verwijs | The Liberators | Dec, 2022 | Medium
Team Kickoff
• The Quest for High Performance: A team start up exercise | Beliminal
• Building Alignment: Team working agreements | Mastering the Obvious
• An effective team is much more than a group of people.
• Chartering, Lift-off, Setting the Stage, From the Beginning… — RGalen Consulting
• Nomad8 | Giving teams the best start
• How to kick off your new Scrum team | Marc Löffler
• weisbart.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/ScrumKickoff-1_0.pdf
• Crisp's Blog » Bootstrapping a Working Agreement for the Agile Team
• Every team needs a Working Agreement
• In-Depth: How To Create Better Work Agreements For Your Team | by Christiaan Verwijs | The Liberators | Jul, 2022 | Medium
• Is my Scrum team really self-organizing? - Serious Scrum - Medium
• Theory_of_Team_Coaching.pdf
• Market of Skills. I recently facilitated a Market of… | by Samantha Webb | practicalscrum | Medium
• Team LiftOff with Market of Skills and Competence Matrix - Crisp's Blog
Team Happiness
• Don't call me a resource | LinkedIn
• A Better Way To Measure Employee Happiness | Neale Lewis | Pulse | LinkedIn
• Agile Self-assessments - Ben Linders
• Employee engagement - Bain & Company: Net Promoter System
• How companies measure happiness in a creative way | Hppy
• Employee engagement - Bain & Company: Net Promoter System
• INCURABLE DATA GEEK • How we put a number on employee happiness and did...
• Employee Pulse Surveys: What They Are and Why They Matter | Engage Blog
• Track and Facilitate Your Engineers’ Flow States In This Simple Way | First Round Review
• How to Track the Team’s Mood with a Niko-niko Calendar » Agile Trail
• Squad Health Check model – visualizing what to improve | Spotify Labs
• http://teammetrics.apphb.com/
• Agile Metrics – Velocity is not the Goal | Nicholas Muldoon
• 3 Metrics for Reporting an Agile Pilot to Top Management » Agile Trail
• Agile Fluency Project: Chart Your Agile Pathway
Team Building
• How to Build a Kick-ass Agile Team | The Agile Coach
• 6 Team Conditions | 6 Conditions for Team Effectiveness
• Forget Myers-Briggs: To Build a Great Team, Focus on 'Factor C' | Cass Sunstein | LinkedIn
• Hanlon's Razor: Relax, Not Everything is Out to Get You
• How Teams Can Be More Supportive With Help From Hanlon’s Razor
• How to Get Smart People With Big Egos to Work TogetherChristopher Avery's The Leadership Gift™ Blog
• Agile adaptation of Tuckman’s stages of group development | Brett Maytom | LinkedIn
• Track and Facilitate Your Engineers’ Flow States In This Simple Way | First Round Review
• Liberating Structures - 20. Drawing Together
• Six Ways a Scrum Master or Agile Coach Can Help the Team
• Is my Scrum team really self-organizing? - Serious Scrum - Medium
• Mapping Accountabilities
• Why are the right skills never available when you need them?
• Why Great (Scrum) Teams Have A Mind Of Their Own | by Christiaan Verwijs | The Liberators | Sep, 2021 | Medium
• A Quickstart To Improve Team Morale | Scrum.org
• "Remote Facilitation" - Session by Jay-Allen Morris and Kirsten Clacey at Agile Coaching Retreat Live Online
• Jeff Gallimore’s Culture Playlist
• 108 Ice breaker questions for agile teams. | by Chris Stevenson | Medium
• Liberators - What Makes Scrum Teams Effective?
• re:Work - Understand Team Effectiveness
• The Enemy of Trust and 6 Ways to Defeat It
• Fun at Work - The Case for Junior Developers
• To Build a Diverse Company for the Long Term, Develop Junior Talent
• Online « The McCarthy Show
• 63% Of Employees Don't Trust Their Leader -- Here's What You Can Do To Change That
• Free personality test, type descriptions, relationship and career advice | 16Personalities
• How Do I Convince My Boss to Do Anything I Want? – Agility Scales – Medium
• Measuring and evaluating Scrum in complex environments – Innova1st
• Don't call me a resource | LinkedIn
• Five Dysfunctions Products | The Table Group
• Team Coaching International • Improve Team Performance
• Top 10 reasons why Darth Vader was an amazing project manager - GeekWire
• 8 Do-it-yourself workshops and experiments to help Scrum Teams engage and involve their stakeholders | Scrum.org
• Start Your Own Zombie Scrum Learning Journey | by Barry Overeem | The Liberators | Aug, 2021 | Medium
• Join the Road to Mastery!
• How much improvement do I get by adding more teams or people? / Troy Magennis / Observable
• Leaders, how the heck do you build safety for teams? | by Todd Lankford | Serious Scrum | Medium
• In-Depth: Stable Or Fluid Teams? What Does The Science Say? | by Christiaan Verwijs | The Liberators | Mar, 2022 | Medium
• Health Checks for Agile Teams — Age-of-Product.com
User Stories and Product Definition
Story Size and Splitting
• Twenty Ways to Split Stories | XP123
• Story Slicing, How Small is Enough? | Agile Pain Relief
• Understanding the Vertical Slice | Simple Programmer
• User Story Traps | The Scrum Crazy Blog
• User Stories hurt team productivity when they're too big
• Call to Arms: Average Story Sizes of One Day - Paul Hammant's blog
• Smaller Stories - Paul Hammant's blog
• Small Stories Reduce Variability in Velocity, Improve Predictability | LeadingAgile
• SPIDR – five simple techniques for a perfectly split user story
• SPIDR Poster Download
• Using Vertical Slicing and Estimation to make Business Decisions at Adobe
• Vertically Slicing User StoriesJeremy Jarrell
• Splitting user stories -- the hamburger method
• Elephant Carpaccio facilitation guide
• Elephant Carpaccio exercise — an experience report | by Oliver Spann | Medium
Definition of Ready
• The Definition of Ready in Agile Development - SolutionsIQ
• Definition of Ready | System Agility
• The Definition of Ready in Scrum
• User stories part 4 – Definition of ready | Boost Agile
• Sashimi – an excursion in the “Definition of Done” - lundqvist
• Definition of Ready Exercise Description.pdf - Google Drive
• It’s time to ditch your Definition of Ready | by Maarten Dalmijn | Serious Scrum | Medium
Definition of Done
• Agile Adoption Roadmap: Agile Definition of Done Starter Kit
• Exercise:: Definition of Ready & Done
• Scrum - Definition of Done Creation - Mitch Lacey & Associates - Scrum and Agile Training
• Getting Agile Blog » Building a Definition of Done
• Why Scrum requires completely “Done” software every Sprint
• Definition of Done - Where to Start? | Scrum.org
• Take Your Scrum Team’s Definition Of Done To The Next Level! | by Zombie Scrum Resistance | The Liberators | Feb, 2022 | Medium
Acceptance Criteria
• What is acceptance criteria? | Definition and Best Practices
• Acceptance Test-Driven Development – Net Objectives Portal
• Acceptance Test Driven Development (TDD) Explained
• User stories: a beginner's guide to acceptance criteria
• What Characteristics Make Good Agile Acceptance Criteria? | Segue Technologies - Custom Software Development, Professional Website Design, Information Technology
• TDD vs BDD vs ATDD: Everything You Should Know - Software Testing Material
• 12 Considerations for User Story Spikes — RGalen Consulting
• What Is Gherkin + How Do You Write Gherkin Tests?
• Gherkin Language: Format, Syntax & Gherkin Test in Cucumber
• Definition of Done vs. Acceptance Criteria | Cprime | Medium
• Definition of Done vs. Acceptance Criteria | Cprime | Medium
Estimation
• Scrum Log Jeff Sutherland: Story Points: Why are they better than hours?
• Alex Yakyma: Why Progressive Estimation Scale Is So Efficient For Teams
• Agile Estimation, Prediction, and Commitment
• Mike Cohn - Agile Estimating on Vimeo
• Let's Play Planning Poker!
• Reasons to Estimate During Planning Poker with the Whole Team
• Software Estimation: How Misperceptions Mean We Almost Always Get It Wrong | Dr Dobb's
• The myth of software time estimations – Hacker Noon
• It's Effort, Not Complexity
• Scrum and Function Points: friends or foe - Nesma
• Three-point estimation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Five Things You Should Know about Cost Overrun | by Bent Flyvbjerg | Medium
• Velocity Range Calculator - Free Agile Tool
• Introduction to Monte Carlo Forecasting / Troy Magennis / Observable
• Monte Carlo Simulation for Agile Software Development, Budget Prognosis and Replacement for Extrapolation / Daniel Frey / Observable
• Using Markov Chain Monte Carlo method for project estimation
• Agile Project Forecasting – The Monte Carlo Method
• Sevawise Games
• Monte Carlo Simulation
• Risk Engineering: Monte Carlo simulation for project risk assessment¶
• Monte Carlo Analysis in Project Management
• Probabilistic Project Sizing Using Randomized Branch Sampling (RBS)
• Blink Estimation - Dan North & Associates Ltd
• Can you pick the things of Earth and the galaxy in order from smallest to largest without making a mistake? Quiz - Sporcle Games & Trivia
• Magnifying the Universe
• If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel - A tediously accurate map of the solar system
• When a Man Took a Joke in a Pepsi Ad Seriously, Chaos Ensued | Literary Hub
• User Stories and User Story Examples by Mike Cohn
• The New User Story Backlog is a Map - Jeff Patton & Associates
• Introduction to User Stories
• SMART criteria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• INVEST (mnemonic) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• New to agile? INVEST in good user stories – [Agile for All]
• INVEST in Good Stories, and SMART Tasks | XP123
• Independent Stories in the INVEST Model - XP123
• How to Hang a Picture: Agile User Stories
• Everything You Wanted to Know About User Stories (But Were Afraid to Ask)
• The Dark Horse Metric: A Case for Using Throughput | by Austin Mackesy-Buckley | The Startup | Medium
• What is an EPIC and what is not. Most likely you already know full well… | by Jose Huerta | Aug, 2022 | Medium
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• As a Developer... Is Not a User Story
• Technical User Stories or The Team Tries to Fool the Product Owner | Agile Pain Relief
• Should You Create User Stories for Technical Debt?
• Technical Stories: We don’t need ‘em. | xProgramming.com
• How Spikes help to Improve your Agile Product Delivery
• Spikes « Scaled Agile Framework
• There Should be Tracer Bullets in Each Sprint | c0nnexx10n : C0nnect1ng L1fe w1th Techn010gy
• Writing User Stories for Back-end Systems
• Putting the Story back into the User Story | Paul Goddard | Pulse | LinkedIn
• User Stories And The Alternatives - Scrum Inc
• Agile Marketing User Stories - Adapting an Agile Tool
• Accounting for UX Work with User Stories in Agile Projects
• How to write the Product Backlog item as Hypothesis | Scrum.org
• Deep Dive Models in Agile: Process Flows Pt 1 - Business Analyst Articles, Webinars, Templates, Jobs
• TDD - The Careful way is the Fast Way | James Grenning’s Blog
• POC vs Prototype vs MVP: Which Approach Should You Choose?
• Understanding the MVP (Minimum Viable Product) | Agile Velocity
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• User Story Traps | The Scrum Crazy Blog
• "As a Developer..." Is Not a User Story - Industrial Logic
• 5 Tips For Writing A Job Story — Jobs To Be Done — Medium
• Myth: In Scrum, the Product Backlog has to consist of User Stories
• How do agile teams approach the creation of a document? | Scott W. Ambler | LinkedIn
• Try Design Thinking + Scrum: A Powerful Hybrid Agile Approach | LinkedIn
• Dual-Track Agile and Spikes: Secrets of Maximum Agility - Ascendle
• Dual-track agile is a game-changer for designers - UX Collective
• Escaped Defects | LeadingAgile Field Notes
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PO and Backlog
Ideation and Planning
• My Product Strategy Model | Roman Pichler
• Establishing an Effective Product Strategy Process | Roman Pichler
• The Agile Vision Board -Vision and Product Strategy
• Product Vision is Science Fiction – Help your organization focus on successful outcomes
• Product Vision – Joel on Software
• The GO Product Roadmap | Agile Product Management Tool
• 10 Tips for Creating an Agile Product Roadmap | Roman Pichler
• Product Roadmap Articles | Roman Pichler
• A Product Canvas for Agile Product Management, Lean UX, Lean Startup
• How to craft a Product Goal. A Masterclass on the Product Goal in… | by Sjoerd Nijland | Serious Scrum | Jan, 2021 | Medium
• How Much Product Discovery Is Enough? - Itamar Gilad
• Idea Validation — Much More Than Just A/B Experiments - Itamar Gilad
• Strategy Canvas | Blue Ocean Tools and Frameworks
• Lean Canvas Template PDF
• Elevator Pitch Canvas
• Product Management Canvas - Product in a Snapshot
• Product Development Strategy With Examples [2021 Guide]
• The Strategy Stack: Connecting Business, Product, and Technology Strategy | by Roman Pichler | Mar, 2024 | Medium
• (1) Product Management Canvas – Product in a Snapshot | LinkedIn
• Resources — Precoil
• The Many Levels of Planning on an Agile Project
• Here’s a Shocking Revelation: You Can Create Long-Term Plans with Scrum | by Willem-Jan Ageling | Serious Scrum | Feb, 2022 | Medium
• Predictive *AND* Adaptive Planning | Pragilematic
• Tips for Agile product roadmaps & product roadmap examples | by Robbin Schuurman | The Value Maximizers | Medium
• Modern Product Roadmapping. The Roadmap, as an artifact, is… | by Kevin Bendeler | Mar, 2022 | Medium
• Roadmaps — Get them wrong and they become a nightmare. | by David Theil | Nov, 2022 | Bootcamp
• The Mindset That Kills Product Thinking – Help your organization focus on successful outcomes
• The pros and cons of Big Design Up Front — and what I do instead | by Benek Lisefski | We’ve moved to freeCodeCamp.org/news | Medium
• Do You Want a Plan? I’ll Give You a Plan! | by Willem-Jan Ageling | Serious Scrum | Medium
• Three Reasons to Stop Talking About Time and Deadlines in Agile Environments - DZone Agile
• Release Plan - Published Patterns
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• User Story Mapping and probabilistic forecasting – Serious Scrum – Medium
• Kickstart your next project with a Walking Skeleton - Code Climate Blog
• User Story Mapping - Jeff Patton & Associates
• Agile Adoption Roadmap: Story Telling with Story Mapping
• Winnipeg Agilist - How to create a User Story Map
• Learning Story Mapping Through Exercises | Agile Pain Relief
• A Guide to User Story Mapping: Templates and Examples (How to Map User Stories) | Planio
• Share and engage with the Design Sprint Community
• Bridging Agile Delivery and Design Thinking: Part 1 Journey Mapping to User Story Mapping
• Visualizing a Large Product Backlog With a Treemap
• http://gojko.net/papers/effect_maps.pdf
• 10 Tips for Creating Agile Personas | Roman Pichler
• How to create a persona in 9 simple steps
• 3 Persona Types: Lightweight, Qualitative, and Statistical
• Why Your Planning And Tracking Are Generating Nothing More Than The Illusion Of Control
• Uncertainty, Knowledge, and Scrum Sprints - DZone Agile
• 8 steps to kick off your quarterly planning | The Agile Coach
• Product Roadmaps vs. Product Plans | by Saeed Khan | Medium
• The Product Tree Game Our Favorite Way To Prioritize Features | ProdPad
• Using Prune-The-Product-Tree game | by Carlos Piqueres | Medium
• Prune the Product Tree Template & Example for Teams | Miro
• Nomad8 | The rise and rise of Quarterfall
• Elements of an Effective Product Strategy | Roman Pichler
Backlog
• Key Dimensions of User Stories · Blog · Liip
• 9 Tips for Creating a Good Sprint Backlog - Scrum Alliance
• Backlog Grooming: Part 1 - Scrum Alliance
• Effective refinement, part I | Scrum.org
• ScrumCrazy - Tips for Effective Backlog Grooming
• Build a Minimum Viable Product With These 3 Core UX Design Principles - DZone Agile
• Maintaining a Healthy Prioritized Backlog | Agile Velocity
• Make Your Product Backlog DEEP
• DEEP: The 4 Characteristics of a Good Product Backlog
• 28 Product Backlog Anti-Patterns – Agile Transition
• When Product Backlog Is A Mess | Scrum.org
• 8 Symptoms of an Ineffective Product Backlog · Illustrated Agile
Budgeting
• The 5 Principles behind effective agile budgeting – The Chaucer Group – Chaucer
• Agile budgeting: How much will it cost? | Agilest®
• Making the shift to product-based IT
• Shift IT from Project to Product
Prioritization
• (5) One thing about the word "PRIORITY" nobody has told you ... yet! | LinkedIn
• Priority Lists Don't Work
• First Things First: Prioritizing Requirements
• 6 agile methods for backlog prioritization | Learn
• Understanding the Pareto Principle (The 80/20 Rule) | BetterExplained
• Cost Per Reasonable Decision (CPRD) – Hacker Noon
• Prioritizing Software Requirements with Kano Analysis
• Prioritizing With the Eisenhower Matrix
Value
• agile42 | Business Value Game
• Business Value Engineering
• Agile & Business Release Planning Business Value
• The Problems with Estimating Business Value | Mountain Goat Software
• Communicate Business Value to Your Stakeholders
• How to Measure Value | ThoughtWorks
• Five Types Of Value | Scrum.org
• The Business Case for Agility | LinkedIn
• What Is "WSJF"?: Using a Scaled Agile Concept to Prioritize Work
• WSJF – Weighted Shortest Job First | Black Swan Farming
• Estimating Value | Black Swan Farming
• Understanding Value | Black Swan Farming
• Five Types Of Value. A simple model to better understand why… | by Christiaan Verwijs | The Liberators | Medium
• Value Stream Mapping vs. Value Stream Management: What’s the difference? | LinkedIn
• Value Stream Link - your destination for Value Stream Management, Mapping and Optimization.
• Throughput accounting - Wikipedia
• Agile Product Ownership in a Nutshell - YouTube
• The resource utilization trap - YouTube
• The Role Canvas: Clarify Roles in your Organization | Agile Insider
• Let’s Eradicate Bad Product Ownership, part-1 — RGalen Consulting
• Let’s Eradicate Bad Product Ownership, part-2 — RGalen Consulting
• BA-Times+Article+-+4+Quadrants+of+Product+Ownership,+v1-1.pdf
• Growing as a Product Owner: Five Product Owner Maturity-Levels | Scrum.org
• In-Depth: What Makes A Good Product Owner? | by Christiaan Verwijs | The Liberators | Medium
• 10 key traits of a great product owner | by Stephen Waring | Agile Batman | Jan, 2022 | Medium
• Managing Product Managers - Tweets
• Stripe Product Lead on Managing Product Managers on Vimeo
• Six Types of Product Owners | Roman Pichler
• The Single Product Owner
• Why you need only ONE Product Owner
• Agile and the Seven Sins of Project Management
• Agile and the Seven Deadly Sins of Project Management - YouTube
• InformIT: Agile Product Management with Scrum: Common Product Owner Traps and Pitfalls >
• Fight Zombie Product Ownership with the Product Ownership Evolution Model | by Johannes Schartau | The Liberators | Medium
• We Don't Hire Product Owners Here | Rich Mironov's Product Bytes
• Hiring: 76 Scrum Product Owner Interview Questions to Avoid Agile Imposters - Age-of-Product
• 50 Interview Questions For Product Owners | by Lisa Bradburn | Agile Insider | Jun, 2021 | Medium
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• The Chief Product Owner on Large Agile Projects
• Am I a Product Manager or a Product Owner? Part 2 - EBG Consulting
• Product Manager vs. Product Owner | Roman Pichler | Pulse | LinkedIn
• Product Owners vs. Product Managers: Train Drivers and Track Builders | by Luke Gallimore | Monstarlab EMEA | Jul, 2021 | Medium
• Decoding Product Management — A skill matrix to grow, coach, assess, and hire world-class PMs | by Markus Müller | Sep, 2021 | Medium
• The PO vs PM madness. All you need to know to navigate the PO… | by Afonso Franco | Oct, 2021 | UX Collective
• What's the difference between a product owner vs. a product manager?
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• Evidence-based management - Wikipedia
• What is Evidence-Based Management? • ScienceForWork
• Evidence-Based Management Guide | Scrum.org
• Center for Evidence Based Management
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• Four Principles of Low-Risk Software Releases | Principle 1: Low-Risk Releases Are Incremental | InformIT
• Business Analysis Still Has a Place in Scrum
• Fail Fast Means Learn Fast
• Don’t Know What I Want, But I Know How to Get It | Jeff Patton & Associates
• Expand to Extract and Back - Kent Beck - Medium
• The 7-Step Guide to Product Design Risk Assessment - Primary
• Understanding The Product Adoption Curve Could Totally Transform Your SaaS Marketing
• 4 types of problem-solution fit - by Jeroen Coelen
• (9) When Dual-Track and Product Discovery go wrong | LinkedIn
• Empower Product Teams with Product Outcomes, Not Business Outcomes - Product Talk
• Downloads - Itamar Gilad
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• Clarissa Lucas' Audit Playlist
Kanban + Lean
• Home | Kanban University
• The official Kanban Guide. - Kanban Guides
• Kanban (development) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• ProKanban - ProKanban.org
• The Flow Guide™ - The Definitive Guide to The Flow System™
• What is STATIK? Tips on how to apply the Kanban method!
• Single-minute exchange of die - Wikipedia
• Takt time - Wikipedia
• SCRUM vs. Kanban - About Agility
• Kanban as Multiban? | Edge of Chaos | Agile Development Blog
• BBC - Blogs - Internet blog - Agile Delivery in the Travel Beta; from Scrum to Kanban
• Kanban Tool - Online Kanban Board for Business | Visual Project Management Software | Kanban Tool
• Scrumban « The Agile Executive
• 7 Steps to Build a Kanban Board for a Scrum Team’s Impediments » Agile Trail
• The Seven Wastes of Software Development - DZone Agile
• The Seven Wastes of Software Development
• 7 Wastes: The Seven Muda | ToughNickel
• Visualizing Work – Fernando Cuenca – Medium
• Lean Agile Lunch with Jeff Anderson - YouTube
• HUGE IO
• Resource Efficiency vs. Flow Efficiency, Part 1: Seeing Your System - Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant
• Featureban | Agendashift™
• Registration | Featureban
• Kanban_Policy_Game_Facilitators_Guide.pdf
• WIP Saturation Simulation
• Microsimulation of Traffic Flow: Onramp
• Bottle Video: This is why your company doesn’t make real progress
• Become a Better Product Owner with Kanban - Travis Birch - Medium
• Theory of Constraints 101: Applying the Principles of Flow to Knowledge Work - Forte Labs
• Unraveling the Theory of Constraints: A Path to Optimize Productivity TAXCONCEPT
• Cumulative Flow Diagram
• How to Read the Cumulative Flow Diagram [Infographic] | Nave
• The Little-Known Facts about Little’s Law: How to Fast Track Your Way to More Predictable Delivery Systems | Nave Blog - Expert tips and guidelines for Kanban teams
• Agile Cycle Time and Throughput Case Study | Agile Alliance
• Little's Law and CFDs » Scrum & Kanban
• Unintended Consequences of Using Work-In-Process to Increase Throughput | Project Production Institute
• The impact of DEPENDENCIES - and how to MANAGE them - YouTube
• 17 Dependency Management Hacks to improve flow efficiency
• Klaus Leopold: Flight Levels in Action - YouTube
• How Long Will It Take? – Part 2 – So, Does It Work? - No Motherships
• How to Match to Weibull Distribution without Excel | Connected Knowledge
• Why Emotionally Intelligent People Embrace the 25-5 Rule | Inc.com
• Kanban EV | Board Game | BoardGameGeek
• How to Improve Workflow Efficiency - Kanban Zone
• Optimisation: Unpacking Queueing Theory in its Simplest Terms | by Khin Yadanar Lin | Mar, 2024 | Towards Data Science
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• How Agile and Six Sigma Can Work Together | Agile Alliance
• Six Sigma and Agile: Can They Work Together? - Kanban Zone Blog
• (25) Why Agile Sigma is better than Lean Six Sigma? | LinkedIn
Tools and Metrics
Metrics
• Spurious Correlations
• Understanding Agile Team Metrics
• Team Metrics in Depth — Lean Agile Intelligence
• Transformation Leaders: Stop Failing/Start Measuring  — Lean Agile Intelligence
• Agile Metrics Madness | Teri Christian | Pulse | LinkedIn
• ACCU :: Measurable Value with Agile
• Keeping Agile Metrics Simple
• Agile Charts | AgileKiwi
• Normalizing velocity for better analysis | My Agile Mind
• Measuring and evaluating Scrum in complex environments – Innova1st
• Big Visible Charts | xProgramming.com
• Spreadsheets and tools
• GitHub - FocusedObjective/FocusedObjective.Resources: Various
• Agile Metrics — The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly by Hands-on Agile
• 5 metrics Engineering Managers can extract from Pull Requests
• Leading and Lagging Indicators - LeadingAgile
• The definition of vanity metrics (and how to identify them)
• [Experience Report] Service Delivery Agility Dashboard
• DORA metrics explained: what, why, and how of Accelerate metrics | Sleuth
• Transformation Leaders: Stop Failing/Start Measuring  — Lean Agile Intelligence
• Available Assessment Templates - Lean Agile Intelligence
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• Agile project tracking - burn up charts
• Burn-up versus Burn-down Chart
• A step by step guide to building burn up charts | by Stephen Waring | Oct, 2022 | Agile Batman
• Alternative Scrum Release Burndown Chart
• (2) Your project has a landing zone. | LinkedIn
• RippleRock - enabling better software
• Xodiac musings - What throughput can tell you about your team
• Cumulative Flow Diagram
• Understanding Lead Time Distributions
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• An Intro to Metrics Driven Development: What Are Metrics and Why Should You Use Them?
• Agile Metrics: A GQM Approach -LeadingAgile
• Set Better Goals with NCTs, Not OKRs — Reforge
• OKR: Learn Google's Goal System with Examples and Templates
• What Matters: How to write OKRs with examples
• What is an OKR? - YouTube
• What is OKR? Ultimate Guide To Objectives & Key Results
• Using OKRs with Scrum and Evidence Based Management | Scrum.org
• Metrics in Agile: How to Effectively Measure Transformation | Agile Velocity
• What Is Enterprise Business Agility? | AgilityHealth
• How to Define Metrics to Reach Better Business Outcomes
• Flight Levels and Metrics – Matt Philip's Blog
• Four levels of Analytics/Data Science
• How to craft good Objectives and Key Results in OKR and Run OKR on a Big Scale | by David Theil | Jul, 2023 | Medium
• Mushy-Wushy Leadership: Stop Steering Teams Down the Fluffy Bunny Trail | by Sjoerd Nijland | Oct, 2023 | Medium
• 60+ OKR Examples - How To Write Effective OKRs 2023 | ClickUp
• McKinsey Developer Productivity Review - Dan North & Associates Ltd
• Choosing Your North Star Metric - Future
• Strong Metrics to Show that Your Agile Transformation Matters | LinkedIn
Practices
• The Joel Test 12 Steps to Better Code - Joel on Software
• FrazzledDad: 31 Days of Testing: Day 1: The Kickoff
• How We Build Code at Netflix – Netflix TechBlog – Medium
• Why Agile Operations is Essential for DevOps | DEVOPSdigest
• Visualizing Work – Fernando Cuenca – Medium
• Learn these two simple techniques that will dramatically improve your whiteboard skills
• Tools for Systems Thinkers: The 6 Fundamental Concepts of Systems Thinking
• Tests Coverage is Dead — Long Live Mutation Testing
• From constantly broken production to constantly late releases to release trains to continuous delivery | by Jason Yip | Dec, 2021 | Medium
• How to do a fishbowl activity in the virtual space? - Barbara Covarrubias Venegas
• Ritual Dissent – MSP Guide
• ETTO principle
Wardley Mapping
• On being lost. Chapter 1 | by swardley | wardleymaps | Medium
• Book | LearnWardleyMapping.com
• Wardley's Universal Doctrine - Only Dead Fish
• Wardley's Doctrine
• LearnWardleyMapping.com | Learn Simon Wardley's approach to strategy in business.
• Wardley Maps Awesome List
• What are Wardley Maps? Using Miro for Wardley Mapping
• Time Timer
• Countdown
• Wheel of Names | Random name picker
• Roll Dice With Friends
• scrumblr
• Pointing Poker
• My presentations - Mentimeter
• Wayne's Comparative Agility Dashboard
• AgilityHealth | Accelerate Digital and Agile Talent Development
• Agile Fluency Project: Chart Your Agile Pathway
• Agile Assessments — RGalen Consulting
• Team Collaboration Software | Miro, formerly RealtimeBoard
• CardBoard It! | If post it notes and google docs had a kid, it would look like CardBoard
• Lean Coffee Table
• Scrum Poker Online - Free Tool for Planning Poker - Room: 491634
• ESTIMA – Planning Poker for remote teams | ESTIMA is the app you need when working remotely in an agile team. It’s an online version of planning poker, also known as Scrum poker, perfect for remote agile teams.
• Pomodoro Timer Online - Pomofocus
• The Pomodoro Tracker — A useful tool for time management based on Pomodoro Technique.
• SQUARE - 3P Vantage
• Value Calculators — Project & Team
• (5) Measuring and evaluating Scrum in complex environments | LinkedIn
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• Rally Software Enterprise-Proven Agile
• VersionOne | CollabNet VersionOne
• Kunagi - Agile project management based on Scrum
• Taiga.io
• iceScrum, Free and OpenSource platform for your agile developments
• 5 open source alternatives to Trello | Opensource.com
• The world's #1 product roadmap software | Aha!
• Code Quality and Code Security | SonarQube
• 14 Essential software engineering practices for your agile project - Henrico Dolfing
• Gitcolony | The most advanced peer code review tool
• Minimum Viable CD :: MinimumCD.org
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• unSAFe
• Beware SAFe (the Scaled Agile Framework for Enterprise), an Unholy Incarnation of Darkness | by Sean Dexter | Medium
• Enabling Continuous Delivery with a Dedicated Team
• A Comprehensive Comparison of Renowned Agile Scaling Models - Simplifying agile scaling for distributed teams and programs (Agile Scaling Platform for SAFe/LeSS/Spotify/PI Planning)
• Innovators' CompassAbout
• FacilitatorGear.com
• Map of the Universe™ | Manager Tools
• Delegation Poker & Delegation Board - Management 3.0 Practice
• Delegation Boards and Delegation Poker. Managing self-organisation. | by Andrii Pavliukov | Agile Reactor | Medium
• Top Managers Are Abandoning RACI for Impact Delegation | by Raphael Moutard | Jan, 2024 | Medium
Agile Games
• TastyCupcakes.org
• Fearless Journey – the game that gets your team UnStuck « TastyCupcakes.org
• Lean Simulations: Huge List of Free Lean Games!
• Comfortably Scrum: Comfortably Scrum: Scrum Penny Game
• Agile Games – ball point game | All About Agile
• Agile – Penny Game rules | LeanAgileTraining
• The Penny Game
• Variations of the Lean Penny Game
• The Agile Coin Game (aka Penny Flip) - live virtual online multiplayer
• “Wake up in the morning” Game - A quick fun way to understand the basic concept of Iterative Incremental Development - AgileSparks
• P.O. Value Game
• Moving Motivators - Management 3.0
• Systems Thinking and the Learning Aesthetic (Systems Thinking Ontario, 2013-03-21) – Coevolving Innovations
• The Ball Point Game : Scrumology Pty Ltd
• theballpointgame.pdf
• User story mapping games – Kateřina Mňuková – Medium
• Draw How To Make Toast - a Wicked Problem Solving™ Tool
• Time Prioritization Game Activity and Team-Building Ice-Breaker | Symonds Training
• Home - Gamestorming
• Creativity, Play and Spirit | Coaching Toys
• Agile Games | Agile | Agile Toybox
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• Book Summaries
• The Worst of the Worst #DevLife Jokes — David Sabine
• Something Agile Lean Something | Posters
Agile Problems
• James Shore: The Decline and Fall of Agile
• FlaccidScrum
• Faux Agile - Four principles for staying true to real Agile
• Scrum Alliance - The Land that Scrum Forgot
• Scrum: 19 Sprint Planning Anti-Patterns – Product Coalition
• Anti Patterns: Beware of Becoming a Scrum Mom (Or Scrum Pop)
• Choosing the Right Agile Pilot Project
• Four Attributes of the Ideal Pilot Project
• Deadly Sins Of A Scrum Product Owner | Lizzy Morris, CST | Pulse | LinkedIn
• Integrating Agile into a Waterfall World
• Organisational structure: Matrix Organisation harms your company
• Why your execs don't get agile and what you can do about it | TechBeacon
• Why Isn’t Agile Working? – Hacker Noon
• The U.S. Department of Defense on How To Detect 'Agile BS' - The New Stack
• Technical Debt Scrum: Who Is Responsible? — Age-of-Product.comAge of ProductAge of Product
• Understanding Fake Agile
• Agile-DevSecOps Academy: 40 Ways Agile Transformations Fail - DZone Agile
• 5 cognitive bias examples and how to avoid them in decision-making - Work Life by Atlassian
• Where I Think "Agile" is Headed, Part 1: Do You Need an Agile Approach? - Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant
• Where I Think “Agile” is Headed, Part 3: What Is The Recipe, The Right Answer? - DZone Agile
• Where I Think “Agile” is Headed, Part 2: Where Does Management Fit? - DZone Agile
• Where I Think “Agile” is Headed, Part 4: What Does “Agile” Mean? | Java Code Geeks - 2019
• The Theory of the Dead Horse in Scrum | by Sjoerd Nijland | Serious Scrum | Medium
• Scrum: beware of invisible cows!. During a visit to the Mauna Kea… | by Sjoerd Nijland | Serious Scrum | Medium
• Antipattern of the Month: Cherry Picking - DZone DevOps
• Run This Method Through Organizational Compiler | KSTS Consulting: Organizational Design, Senior Advisory, Coaching, Consulting, Training
• The Customer-Vendor Anti-Pattern - Führung erfahren
• TBM 219: Follow the Money (People, Products, or Projects)
VSM
• What Is Value Stream Management? A Primer For Enterprise Leadership
• VSM Consortium
• Value Stream Link - your destination for Value Stream Management, Mapping and Optimization.
• V.S. Optima - The Value Stream Optimization platform
• Agile to agility: Value Streams and Flow - Agile to agility
• Value Streams and Flow Conference • Milimax
• AC Resources, Online Whiteboard for Visual Collaboration
• The Mindset of Amplio@Teams - Success Engineering
• Using Value Streams to Explain Lean Agile to Executives - YouTube
• Management and Leadership Quotes :: Quote By Taiichi Ohno
Change
• The Agile Elevator Speech | The Wind Mountain Group
• Change Management Process and Model - Prosci's methodology
• Build a change platform, not a change program | McKinsey & Company
• Changing Culture v10 (Change, Scrum, Culture)
• Agile Adoption - Opportunities and Challenges
• How to assess your organization culture in one question | #hypertextual
• Agile Adoption Roadmap: Knowing your Agile Personalities
• Agile Adoption Roadmap: How do you reward within an Agile Team culture?
• Agile Adoption Roadmap: What is Self-Management and is it good for Agile?
• A System Leader's Fieldbook
• How to Make Agile Work for the C-Suite
• Hansoft | Exploring the landscape of large scale agile models
• What Does an Agile Culture Look Like? – everydayAgile // Engineering Agile Culture
• Lean Change Management in Action | Lean Change Management
• 8 ways to “go agile” without an “Agile Transformation”
• Want to scale agile? Don’t. Descale the work first. Achieve big through small.
• Manifesto for Agile Software Development
• Agile Coaching Charter - Agile Coaching Charter
• Manifesto for Software Craftsmanship
• Manifesto for Scaling Agility | ManifestoForScalingAgility.github.io
• Manifesto for Minimalist Software Engineers | Minifesto.org
• Home | Scrum Guides
• The official Kanban Guide. - Kanban Guides
• Agile Conferences Calendar
• Agile Coaching Growth Wheel – Your map for growing in the profession of Agile Coaching
• Scrum Pattern Community
• Surveys Exploring The Current State of Information Technology Practices
• LEGO.com Serious Play Home
• Systems Thinking and Complexity - Online Course
• Systems Thinking: Free courses - OpenLearn - Open University
• Prescientific Organizational Theory
• Digital Future of Banking Requires New Leadership Model
• There’s a New Kid on the Agile Block — FAST Agile | by Ron Quartel | Apr, 2021 | Medium
• 7 Gestalt Principles of Visual Perception | UserTesting Blog

Programming

Old Stuff
Architecture & Patterns
• Painless Functional Specifications - Part 1 Why Bother - Joel on Softw (...)
• Patterns Home Page
• How I use Inversion of Control containers - Krzysztof Kozmic - Devlici (...)
• patterns & practices – Enterprise Library - Home
• Pattern Digest Home
• Jimmy Nilsson
• Step By Step Guide to Factory Pattern Client Activated Object (CAO) Cr (...)
• Design Patterns in C# and VB.NET - Gang of Four (GOF)
• Jesse James Garrett Visual Vocabulary for Information Architecture
• Martin Fowler
• Coding Horror The Ferengi Programmer
• 91 Ways to become the Coolest Developer in the World « Pulkit Arora
• Agile in a Flash Simple Design
• SOLID Code for SOLID Reasons the pluralsight blog
• Home - Dark Patterns
• Big Ball of Mud
• Architectural Topics
• httpwww.yoda.arachsys.comcsharpsingleton.html (via .NET 247)
• CodeProject LinFu.IOC 2.0 in Five Minutes (Part 1 of n) Fun With Attri (...)
ACM
• Association for Computing Machinery
• Safari Books Online - ACM - Home Page
• Books24x7
• Skill Soft
• httpqueue.acm.org
• Communications of the ACM
• ACMQ Site - ACM Queue
SCM
SVN
• subversion.tigris.org
• Setting Up and Running Subversion and Tortoise SVN with Visual Studio (...)
• Ultimate Round-Up For Version Control with Subversion Developer's Too (...)
• Rocket SVN for Microsoft Visual Studio: Subversion add-in for VS 2008/2010 -- Subversion for Windows
• SVN-Monitor
• StatSVN - Repository Statistics - Introduction
• Automated Subversion Tagging With MSBuild Zorched One Line Fix
• Visual Studio Gallery AnkhSVN - Subversion Plugin
• Rocket SVN for Microsoft Visual Studio: Subversion add-in for VS 2 (...)
TFS
• Download details: Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Explorer
• Lab Management Walkthrough VHD - Visual Studio Lab Management team blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs
• Teamprise : Team System for Everyone
• Now Available: Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate Virtual Machines with Sample Data and Hands-on-Labs - Brian Keller: Technical Evangelist for Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management - Site Home - MSDN Blogs
• Rangers Solutions and Projects
• Brian the Build Bunny - Martin Woodward
• Ewald Hofman | Customize Team Build 2010 – Part 1: Introduction
• InCycle Products
• stpsoft - Lightweight requirements tools for Visual Studio Team System
• Build Version Increment Add-In Visual Studio
• TFS Reports
• Making the most of your TFS Project Portal
• TMap for VS2010
• Steve Lange : Requirements Management in TFS: Part 1 (of 4): Overview
• TeamSpec | TFS Word Addin | TFS Add-in for Requirements Management in Word 2007
• Team Foundation Installation Guide
• InCycle Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) Training
• Generate automated builds for source code from multiple branches using Team Foundation Server and Team Builds - CodeProject
• Urban Turtle - Scrum Team Foundation Server (TFS) Agile Tool
• Check-In Policy Pack for TFS
• How To: Versioning Builds With TFS 2010 : Richard Banks - Agile and .NET
• Community TFS Build Extensions
• Download details: Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Explorer
• Teamprise : Team System for Everyone
• Now Available: Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate Virtual Machin (...)
• Ewald Hofman Customize Team Build 2010 – Part 1: Introduction
• Steve Lange : Requirements Management in TFS: Part 1 (of 4)&#5 (...)
• How To: Versioning Builds With TFS 2010 : Richard Banks - Agil (...)
• SCM Policy
• CM Crossroads - CM Crossroads the Configuration Management Community
• OGC Best Management Practice - Home
• Best Practices for Version Control « loop label
• Streamed Lines Branching Patterns for Parallel Software Development
• ComponentSoftware RCS - Version Control System for Windows
• BugTracker.NET Home - Free Bug Tracking
• Git tooling for .NET developers - Krzysztof Kozmic - Devlicio.us - Just the Tasty Bits
• Plastic SCM - distributed version control system (DVCS)
• A List Apart: Articles: Get Started with Git
• In Praise of Continuous Deployment | Fragile
• ChrisMcKee/gitweaver - GitHub
• tortoisegit - Porting TortoiseSVN to TortoiseGIT - Google Project Hosting
• TortoiseHg
• Mercurial SCM
• Home // Think Like (a) Git
• SourceGear
• MXUnit Blog
• BugNET Home
• A List Apart: Articles: Get Started with Git
• Continuous Integration
Build
• MSBuild - What It Does and What You Can Expect in the Future .NET DEV (...)
• Welcome to CruiseControl.NET - CruiseControl.NET - Confluence
• Continuous Integration
• ASP.NET website Continuous Integration+Deployment using CruiseControl. (...)
• Hudson Continuous Integration Server
• Attrice Corporation - Microsoft Build Sidekick v2
• MSBuild Team Blog
• Brennan’s Blog » Blog Archive » 7 Steps to MSBuild
• msbuildtasks.tigris.org
• CodeProject Practical .NET2 and C#2 An introduction to MSBuild. Free s (...)
• ProductBuild Versioning with MSBuild, ANT and CruiseControl
• MSBuild Overview
• CodeProject Compiling Multiple Projects Without a Solution. Free sourc (...)
• UrbanCode, Inc.’s Presentations on SlideShare
• Generate automated builds for source code from multiple branches using (...)
• Aaron Stebner's WebLog How .NET Framework 3.5 setup checks for its pr (...)
• Automated Subversion Tagging With MSBuild Zorched One Line Fix
Testing
• CodeProject Advanced Unit Testing, Part I - Overview. Free source code (...)
• NET Test Driven Development - Darrell Norton's Blog [MVP]
• feature overview - soapUI
• CodeProject Testing XML Web Services (Basic). Free source code and pro (...)
• Stress Testing Web Applications
• HOW TO Test ASP.NET Web Services with the Web Application Stress Tool
• CoDe Magazine - Article Load Testing Web Applications using Microsoft' (...)
• How do we write test automation for ASP.NET - Asp.Net QA Team
• Gallio - Automation Platform for .NET
• Selenium web application testing system
• xUnit.net - Unit Testing for .NET
• NUnit - Home
• NDepend
• NCover Screenshots
• NMock A Dynamic Mock Object Library for .NET
• MbUnit - Generative Unit Test Framework for the .NET Framework
• Windmill Testing Framework
• fakeiteasy - Project Hosting on Google Code
• Unit Test .NET Business Objects Using Nmock Library
• TestDriven.Net Home
• Behavior-Driven Development with NBehave - CodeProject
• Continuous Code Analysis with FxCop
• Brad Wilson Writing an FxCop Task for MSBuild
• blog.RunXc Calling FxCop from MsBuild
• Temporal Nexus - FxCop breaking the build, with useful warnings
• Naming standards for unit tests - Blog - Osherove
• Introducing BDD « DanNorth.net
• Unit Testing Myths and Practices
• introduction.js
• The Code Project - Test-Driven Development in .NET - .NET
• Sean Lumley's Blog Load Testing Web Services with Unit Tests
• More on Unit Testing TestContext - Md. Adil Akhter's Weblogs
• PhantomJS | PhantomJS
Deploy
• Inno Setup
• Windows Installer XML (WiX) toolset
• WixEdit
• CodeProject Wix# (WixSharp) - managed interface for WiX. Free source c (...)
• Introduction to WiX
• WiX Tutorial — Introduction to the Windows Installer XML Toolset
• dbdeploy
• Cyber Installer
• CodeProject An Intelligent .NET Multilanguage Installer. Free source c (...)
• CodeProject Easy Installer. Free source code and programming help
• Eight Evil Things Microsoft Never Showed You in the ClickOnce Demos (a (...)
• Main Page - NSIS
• Database Deployment with the VS 2010 Package/Publish Database Tool : Rachel Appel
• roundhouse - RoundhousE - Migrate and Version Your Database - Google Project Hosting
• Awesome Free Install Builders Daily Cup of Tech
• DeployLX Licensing 3.x XHEO - Copy Protection. Encryption. Deployment
• CodeProject Programmatically Deploying a SQL Reporting Services 2005 R (...)
• Database Deployment with the VS 2010 PackagePublish Database Tool &#58 (...)
Web Deploy
• Compilation and Deployment in ASP.NET 2.0
• West Wind Web ASP.NET 2.0 Compiler Utility
• ClickOnce Delivering .NET Applications Via the Net
• Web Deployment Tool Deploying Web Sites on IIS 7.0 The Official Micr (...)
• Visual Web Developer Team Blog Announcing RTW version of Visual Studi (...)
• Web Deployment Tool : The Official Microsoft IIS Site
• ASP.NET Tutorial: Web.Config Transformation - CodeGuru
• Web Deployment Tool : The Official Microsoft IIS Site
• ASP.NET Tutorial: Web.Config Transformation - CodeGuru
Time Zones
• A literary appreciation of the Olson/Zoneinfo/tz database « Jon Udell
• An Astronomical Look at the Hebrew Calendar
• Time zone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Olson ID Comparison
• TimeZone-Daylight Savings Time - ASP.NET Forums
• Date & Time Formats on the Web
• Windows → Tzid
• List of zoneinfo time zones - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• BCL Team Blog : A Brief History of DateTime [Anthony Moore]
• BCL Team Blog : System.TimeZoneInfo: Working with Ambiguous and Invalid Points in Time [Josh Free]
• BCL Team Blog : System.TimeZone2 Starter Guide [Kathy Kam]
• ZoneInfo (tz database - Olson database) .NET API - Home
• BCL Team Blog : A Brief History of DateTime [Anthony Moore]
• BCL Team Blog : System.TimeZoneInfo: Working with Ambiguous an (...)
• BCL Team Blog : System.TimeZone2 Starter Guide [Kathy Kam]
Security
• Category:OWASP .NET Project - OWASP
• AntiCSRF
• AntiXSS
• Scott Hanselman - ViewStateUserKey makes ViewState more tamper-resistant
• Take Advantage of ASP.NET Built-in Features to Fend Off Web Attacks
• ViewStateUserKey Doesn’t Prevent Cross-Site Request Forgery - KeepItLocked.net
• Coding Horror: Preventing CSRF and XSRF Attacks
• .Net CSRF Guard - OWASP
• Security Development Lifecycle
• patterns & practices: WCF Security Guidance
• SSL with Self-hosted WCF Service - CodeProject
• HTML5 Security Cheatsheet
• Visual Guard .NET Projects Security. Memberships, Authentication and P (...)
• DeployLX Licensing 3.x XHEO - Copy Protection. Encryption. Deployment
• Category:OWASP .NET Project - OWASP
• Coding Horror: Preventing CSRF and XSRF Attacks
• patterns & practices: WCF Security Guidance
Virtualization
• VirtualBox
• John Howard - Hyper-V and virtualization blog
• Virtual PC Guy's WebLog
• httpwww.microsoft.comwindowsproductswinfamilyvirtualpcdefault.mspx
• mRemoteNG
• Hyper-V Remote Management Configuration Utility - Home
• Disk2vhd
• Robocopy
• Configuring Virtual Networks
• Windows Server® 2012 Hyper-V Network Virtualization Survival Guide - T (...)
• Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Converged Fabric Thomas Maurer MVP - Clou (...)
• NIC Teaming in Windows Server 2012 Brings Simple, Affordable Traffic R (...)
• NIC Teaming in Windows 8 & Hyper-V Working Hard In IT
• IT Camps On-Demand – Windows Server 2012 SMB 3.0 Multi-Channel - Harol (...)
• SMB 3.0 and Bandwidth Aggregation
• Step-by-Step Hyper-V Network Virtualization - 31 Days of Favorite Feat (...)
• Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V server command line configuration « Marc K (...)
• VLAN Tricks with NICs - Teaming & Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012 - IT (...)
• 31 Days of our Favorite Things Yes, there is an “I” in Team. The NIC T (...)
• How does basic networking work in Hyper-V - John Howard - Senior Progr (...)
• Some Different Converged Fabric Architectures For Windows Server 2012 (...)
• What's New in Hyper-V Virtual Switch
• NIC Teaming in Windows Server 2012 - Do I Need to Configure My Switch (...)
• Technical Overview Windows Server 2012 NIC Teaming #WS2012 #Hyperv « m (...)
• Windows Server 2012 NIC Teaming and Multichannel Solutions TechEd Nor (...)
• David Chappell :: White Papers
• httpwww.iana.orgassignmentsport-numbers
• All About Unicode, UTF8 & Character Sets | Smashing Coding
• Regular Expression Library
• Regular-Expressions.info - Regex Tutorial, Examples and Reference - Re (...)
• The What, Why, and How of Master Data Management
• Using Jekyll _includes as custom liquid functions
• What Is the “God Mode” Folder in Windows 10, and How Do I Enable It?
• 99 Bottles of Beer Start
• Generate a Random Name - Fake Name Generator
• Random Word Generator
• Streamlit • The fastest way to build and share data apps
• Please, everyone, put your entire development environment in Github

Blogs and Groups

• CODE Online
• Hanselminutes
• Joel on Software
Windows Stuff
Backup
• DriveImage XML Backup Software
• GetDataBack - Data Recovery Software for all Windows File Systems
• Free backup software for Windows - GFI Backup Home Edition
• Download details SyncToy v1.4
• A Taste of Salt: Like Puppet, Except It Doesn't Suck
• Aarif's blog about Windows tweaking, process and windows managerment: PMW v2.0.886 Unveiled
• Bandwidth Place, Your broker for telecom services
• Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool
• Bart's Preinstalled Environment (BartPE) bootable live windows CD-DVD
• Bart's Boot disks
• MX Lookup Tool - Check your DNS MX Records online
• Microsoft Office Online Home Page
• GUIDE: Installing Windows 7 To Use 3GB Of SSD/HDD Space
• GUIDE: Installing Windows 7 To Use 3GB Of SSDHDD Space

Web and UI

UI, UX
• Privacy is UX · An A List Apart Article
• A Guide to UX Design and Design Thinking for Kids | Praxent
• 10 Useful Web Application Interface Techniques How-To Smashing Magaz ( (...)
• 10 Useful Techniques To Improve Your User Interface Designs How-To S ( (...)
• UX Myths
• UX design, service design and design thinking
• UX Magazine Defining and Informing the Complex Field of User Experien (...)
• UI-patterns.com
• UX for the masses – UX and usability articles
• 25 great free UX tools – UX for the masses
• Task-Centered User Interface Design Main page and Shareware Notice
• exljbris Font Foundry
• A Prism 4 Application Checklist - CodeProject
• iOS Human Interface Guidelines Introduction
• 20 things you can do this year to improve your user's experience
• Stop Designing Pages And Start Designing Flows - Smashing UX Design
• Contents Web Style Guide 3
• Guide to Website Navigation Design Patterns
• kuler
• 10 UI Design Patterns You Should Be Paying Attention To Smashing UX D (...)
• Understanding the Rule of Thirds in Web Design Codrops
• Troy Hunt Everything you ever wanted to know about building a secure p (...)
• A List Apart Articles Responsive Web Design
• m.e.driscoll data utopian • eight golden rules of interface design
• Mark Finkle’s Weblog » More on Task-based UI’s
• Task-focused interface - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• What Is User Experience Design Overview, Tools And Resources - Smashin (...)
• Thirteen Tenets Of User Experience Smashing UX Design
• Stop Designing for “Users” — Design-UX — Medium
ASP.NET, Ajax
• Building Layered Web Applications with Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 - Part 1 (...)
• Best Practices Fast, Scalable, and Secure Session State Management for (...)
• Google Maps Control for ASP.Net - Part I
• Service Station Run ASMX Without IIS
• Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen - Troubleshooting Expired ASP.NET Sessi (...)
• WebChart Control for ASP.NET
CSS
• css Zen Garden The Beauty in CSS Design
• Dust-Me Selectors
• CSS Sprites What They Are, Why They’re Cool, and How To Use Them
• 40+ Essential Front End Web Developer Cheat Sheets | Tripwire Magazine
• Clearing a float container without source markup
• !important CSS Declarations: How and When to Use Them - Smashing Magazine
• The History of CSS Resets
• HTML5 Boilerplate - A rock-solid default for HTML5 awesome.
• Modernizr
• Ultimate CSS Gradient Generator - ColorZilla.com
• 50 Extremely Useful And Powerful CSS Tools CSS Smashing Magazine
• 7 Principles Of Clean And Optimized CSS Code CSS Smashing Magazine
WPF and Silverlight
• From WinForm to WPF: A Quick Reference Guide
• Control Library Samples
• WPF Controls - A Visual Quick Start - CodeProject
• Showcasing Cinch MVVM framework / PRISM 4 interoperability - CodeProject
• kirupa.com - Silverlight Tutorial: Creating a Custom Button: Page 1
• Building Better Buttons in Expression Blend and Silverlight - CodeProject
• Silverlight 2 End to End Tutorial: Building a Digg Search Client - ScottGu's Blog
• How to build an Inductive User Interface using the Windows Presentation Foundation - CodeProject
• From WinForm to WPF: A Quick Reference Guide
SVG Graphics
• SVG-Whiz! Home
• SVG - Learning By Coding
• SVG Basics Tutorials - Scalable Vector Graphics by Hand
• Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
• KevLinDev - DOM - ASV Wrapper
• Mozilla SVG Project
• Dynamically updating SVG based on serverside information
• I N K S C A P E . Draw Freely
• XML Namespaces FAQ
• Ecma WEB SITE
• XPath 教程
• SPARK - SVG Programmers Application Resource Kit
• Efficient JavaScript - Opera Developer Community
• svgweb - Google Code
• SVG Styling
• SVG PHP et MySQL
• Webmonkey Reference HTML Cheatsheet
• Learn About Website Creation and Development Tools - LoadView
• A Resource Guide for Web Developers - Qualtrics
• 5 underrated tools to improve your web design | Creative Bloq
• Develop your app for everyone–localize your UI
• Cross Browser Testing Tool - BrowserStack
• BrainJar.com Experiments in Web Programming
• Globalization, Internationalization and Localization in ASP.NET MVC 3, JavaScript and jQuery - Part 1 - Scott Hanselman
• FREE Favicon Generator – Choose an Icon or Use Your Own Image
• Favicon Generator
• FavIcon from Pics -- how to create a favicon.ico for your website
• favicon.ico Generator
• Open Source Web Design - Download free web design templates
• Using IIS with VS 2005 and the new Web Project system - ScottGu's Blog
• The Official Microsoft ASP.NET Site
• KissPNG - largest archive of PNG images. free unlimited download!
• Stunning Free Images · Pixabay