Agile software development, Application Life-cycle Management and Team Foundation Server

Agile

• Agile Manifesto
• Agile Software Development - wikipedia
• Blog on SOLID (a.k.a. Agile) principles
• Article on client perspectives on agile software development
• On the recent launch of healthcare.gov and agile development vs. the waterfall method

Requirements

• Requirements gathering and Use Cases
• Non-functional requirements
• The problem with requirements - some background on the tire swing comic - and a video game themed version

Visual Studio Online (Team Foundation Server)

• Sprint task planning using Visual Studio Online

• List of tools to assist in agile development
• TFS Cloud services (https://tfs.visualstudio.com/)
• TFS video on Backlog items
• Automating and Debugging builds
• http://blogs.msdn.com/b/team_foundation/

Team Building and Communication Skills

• Team topics slides
• OSU library group study room reservations

• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, including an assessment quiz
• http://www.agilecoach.net/coach-tools/
• http://tastycupcakes.org/
• Stand-up Meetings
• The Dark Side Of Software Development That No One Talks About - I don't agree with everything in this article, but it has some useful advice and is relevant to our design goal of simplicity
• What Makes Developers Really Great - some advice on interviewing at a smaller software company; for the most part it applies to larger companies too, but you might be able to be a little less sociable there.