John Farden

Look at the following web sites:
http://www.scrumalliance.org/
http://www.agilealliance.org/articles_by_category?id=17
http://www.softdevarticles.com/modules/weblinks/viewcat.php?cid=46

I would point a difference between Agile and RAD. If RAD is a timeboxed iterative approach, I think that it still has a very "waterfall" vision of activities: a sequence of analysis, design, code, test. Agile approaches tend to have a different order for development activities.

John

A recent survey shows that the adoption, ignorance or rejection rates for the CMMI are similar to the results achieved by a similar survey on Agile approaches. What does this mean?

http://www.devagile.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=302

Some good UML articles and tutorials starting points:
http://www.uml.org/#Links-Tutorials
http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_uml.html#oo_uml_general_articles
http://www.softdevarticles.com/modules/weblinks/viewcat.php?cid=39

Happy reading

John

You might find some material here:
http://www.softdevarticles.com/modules/weblinks/viewcat.php?cid=36
http://www.softdevarticles.com/modules/weblinks/viewcat.php?cid=54

Good luck,

John

In the comments about a recent survey on agile adoption (http://www.methodsandtools.com/dynpoll/oldpoll.php?Agile2), there is the fear that as agility is now becoming "trendy", we may see a number of organizations that will qualify now themselves as "agile", without implementing the essence of the agile software development practices. Has anybody see some signs of such situation?

Hello,

I think this is a complex topic. The best book I know on the topic is the one from Mike Cohn "Agile Estimating and Planning" (http://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/book/1-agile-estimating-and-planning)

John

I think that the only certification you could find concerns the Scrum approach. You will find more information on http://www.scrumalliance.org/

John