Bo Henriksens’s Weblog

The R&D department that I manage, has two main products, that are continually developed on. One is a solution management tool, where our production, support and sales staff, can manage and produce solutions for our clients. The other is a monitoring and reporting tool, where our clients can see the status and progress of their solutions, and download monthly reports.

Every time we are working an update or addition of a feature, we include our users, which means that their will be lots of requests and changes during the development process. Until now, I’ve managed these project in a traditional way, which means that often deadlines have been changed, missed or dropped because of the changes during the development project.

But since our projects are becoming larger and more complicated, with even more request and changes during the process, it is no longer possible to manage the software development in this fashion. So I have been looking around on the web for information on methods for iterative software development, an have found the Agile software development methodologies. Of the Agile methods, Scrum is the one that seems to fit my situation the best, so I have chosen that I want to dig a little deeper into that. But before I start buying books, lessons or certifications I would very much like a few pointers to books or resources that are good. Hence the cry for help.