Free Agile Resource Center

Welcome to Rally’s Agile resource center, where you can access free white papers, presentations, webinars and articles about Agile project management, product management, requirements management, test and defect management, and development management.

Check out these featured Agile resources:

Project Management

A Project Manager's Survival Guide to Going Agile

Michele Sliger
By: Michele Sliger

This paper focuses on re-defining the job of project manager to better fit the self-managed team environment, one of the core Agile principles. Special emphasis is placed on the shift to servant leadership, with its focus on facilitation and collaboration.
Five Levels of Agile Planning: From Enterprise Product Vision to Team Stand-up

Hubert Smits
By: Hubert Smits

Existing Agile methods often focus on small, single-team projects and overlook the broader impact of large, multi-team and multi-year projects. This paper outlines a distinct planning framework that has been used successfully in large-scale Agile projects and relies on five levels: product vision, product roadmap, release plan, sprint plan and daily commitment.

Continuous Quality Management

Zach Nies
By: Zach Nies & Johnny Scarborough

This webinar discusses the latest processes, automation approaches and Lean principles that drive continuous quality in development teams.

Kill Your Inventory Manager

Ryan Martens
By: Ryan Martens

We've all seen the "Kill Your Television" bumper stickers that encourage us to fix all of our family dysfunction by moving away from that giant time-suck called prime time. If Ryan could create a similar bumper sticker to address the professional lives of software teams, it would be: "Kill Your Inventory Manager."

How Product Management Must Change to Enable the Agile Enterprise

Catherine Connor
By: Catherine Connor

As more development teams adopt Agile processes to increase their responsiveness to customer needs, traditional product managers need to change the way they work to keep up with shorter development cycles and feedback loops with their customers. This webinar will propose solutions to the challenges product managers face when moving from traditional development teams to Agile teams.

Principles of Agile Architecture

Ryan Martens
Dean Leffingwell
By: Ryan Martens & Dean Leffingwell

While the most popular practices were developed and proven in small team environments, the interest and need for using Agile in the enterprise is growing rapidly. This white paper discusses the role of “Intentional Architecture” in the development of enterprise-class systems built using Agile methods and techniques.