Methods, organization, contracts

• UserStories
• Scrum and XP from the trenches a simple and practical view.
• Training within industry successful in the '40s probably the ancestor of kanban, lean and even our agile methodologies

Psychology, Business and Management

Limits, features

• We can only work with, remember and perceive 7±2 things at a time.
• How do we attach meaning to words and symbols? Is it the same for everybody? (e.g. what does "cost" mean in a company?) a friendly course on semiotics

Strategy, Organization

• Trainig within industry the roots of lean, related to scrum and XP values and methods.
• Mintzberg's "Strategy Safari" about corporate and business strategy schools (resumed here in an interactive drawing, but the book is really worth reading!)
• Finding a common interest: The story of an Australian building company profitable and successful thanks to team work (only read the excerpt, while waiting for the book)

Behaviour, Groups

• Understand and avoid usual games people play
• When do we learn or ask for help? Do we know when we need it?

Software architecture, languages, tools

• Test and automate anything with a web interface with a single tool: Selenium IDE (also usable for non-developers)
• Control your application with a scripting language. Understand the true cost of doing it yourself using XML or custom scripts and formats or... (Python, Ruby, Lua and many more work the same, and the bindings can be generated automatically
• Diagrams created in seconds from simple text you can diff and put under scm: PlantUML
• The only book about programming you may need, and it's free Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
• Ok, if you are also defining languages, read Programming Languages, application and interpretation too.

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