George Dinwiddie announces the Agile Bibliography Wiki:
Do you have a hard time keeping track of those articles that you read and think "I could have used this when I was talking to ...?" Do you sometimes need an article to back up a point that you're making, but don't know where the data is? Well, I do. I've started lists a number of times, and keep misplacing them.
This time is different. When a discussion on one of the mailing lists got into studies demonstrating the effectiveness of Agile Software Development, I decided to start a list in a place that won't get lost.
The wiki already covers readings in these areas:
- Studies of Agile Effectiveness
- Agile and Traditional Measurements
- Agile and CMMI
- Survey Results
- Agile Reading Lists
Some people have already noticed, but this is a project that will thrive only if it is actively cared for by a wide array of participants.
Accordingly, we'd like to ask you: what agile readings do you think are important to record, and what topics need fleshing out?
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Studies
by Geoffrey Wiseman,
Re: Studies
by merlyn albery-speyer,
Re: Studies
by John Rusk,
Studies
by Geoffrey Wiseman,
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I've typically found Agile studies and surveys to feel pretty biased in terms of the audience and the phrasing, as if they were designed to discover that users of agile methods believe that agile methods are effective (which, surprisingly, they often do!)
So I'd love to see a collection of evidence that doesn't feel as if it couldn't be dismissed on its base principles.
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I noticed that the "Ist XP etwas für mich? Empirische Studien zur Einschätzung von XP" (2005) paper in the bibliography didn't think XP was ready for use in industry.
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My favourite study was performed before the agile movement began, which protects it fairly well from accusations of bias. I have blogged about it here.