If you want access to PDF files of the deck we used, contact Julia at Julia.Hill@LeanAgileTraining.com .  (Note for public readers: You must also be a CSM/CSPO we trained.)

Read or finish reading the following:

Agile Project Management with Scrum by Ken Schwaber.

http://www.infoq.com/minibooks/scrum-xp-from-the-trenches

The Scrum Guide 

You are certainly welcome to read here (this wiki), at my blog Agile & Business (see http://agileconsortium.blogspot.com/), and at a special Yahoo group called AgileBusiness (http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/AgileBusiness).  Please also contribute, even if only with questions.

We also particularly recommend:

ScrumDevelopment (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scrumdevelopment)

LeanDevelopment (http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/leandevelopment)

The Agile2011 Conference (http://agile2011.agilealliance.org/) was in August.

The next ScrumGathering will be in London.

See Agile Info, here: http://leanagiletraining.com/AgileInfo/Agile%20Info.htm

There is a whole LOT of info on and "beneath" this page.  It includes: books, articles, blogs, yahoo groups, "user groups", etc, etc.

Local Groups: You should join a "local" group.  Or start a local group or an "industry" group.

You should be aware of:

Agile Ottawa - http://agileottawa.wordpress.com/

I know there are other lean-agile-scrum groups in Ottawa.  There is a Scrum Ottawa group...I think in Nepean.

Agile Ottawa also has a Yahoo presence, a LinkedIn presence and perhaps other ways of communicating.  Dave Rooney, whom some of you know, is connected to Agile Ottawa.

If you want to look at other groups, see:

http://scrumcommunity.pbworks.com/Local+Groups

Here are some other useful documents:

Scrum-checklist-prio1.pdf

Prioritizing projects.pdf

Joe'sSimpleScrumTool3.xls

PDU Process2.pdf

Joe’s Unofficial Scrum CheckList V11.pdf  

Agile 2010 Scrum excel spreadsheet:

ScrumExcelSpreadsheet20100124.xlsx 

Business Value Engineering paper.

Suggestions: 

We place the highest value on taking action and getting real results.

Put what you think you know into action.  Now.

Find out what you don't know as well as you thought you did. 

Find out what you need to know the most. Now.

Learn more (for a bit). Act more.

Learn-Act.  Get into a tight cycle.  Like a PDCA cycle.

Good luck!

We want you to pursue this with perseverance and aggressiveness, and at the same time patience.