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The Agile Impact Report: Proven Performance Metrics from the Agile Enterprise

In this report, third-party research firm QSM Associates assesses the performance of 29 Agile development projects against a database of 7,500 primarily traditional development projects in three key areas: productivity, time-to-market and quality. The results were that teams using Agile and Rally were 50% faster to market and 25% more productive with one quarter the number of defects. This report not only provides metrics from Agile organizations versus their waterfall counterparts, it also offers up a framework for measuring your own Agile initiatives. http://www.rallydev.com/downloads/document/103-the-agile-impact-report-proven-performance-metrics-from-the-agile-enterprise.html

Master the Discipline of Estimating in an Agile Way

Agile teams learn to plan releases using relative size measures for requirements, as opposed to traditional estimates based on lines of code or days and hours. This chapter shows how estimating works within release and iteration planning cycles, and also provides hands-on exercises to use with your team to improve the accuracy of your plans and make planning more robust and flexible.

http://www.rallydev.com/learn_agile/agile_planning/agile_estimating/

Iteration Planning

Learn the Rhythm of Committing to Features in Short, Agile Iterations

Iterations are the heartbeat of the Agile team. Getting into the rhythm of these short cycles uses disciplined planning practices supported by daily and iteration-level meetings. This chapter includes a recommended iteration schedule for new teams, success tips and a detailed Iteration Planning agenda.

http://www.rallydev.com/learn_agile/agile_planning/iteration_planning/

Release Planning

Create Release Plans That Build Confidence and Respect

New Agile teams are amazed at their ability to deliver new product features to the customer in just a few months, as compared to a year or more with traditional waterfall processes. Release Planning is the key practice that drives commitment to a mid-range plan. See these tips for success along with a checklist, detailed meeting agenda and recommended timeline for your first releases.

http://www.rallydev.com/learn_agile/agile_planning/release_planning/

White Paper - Release Planning Guide

New Agile teams are amazed at their ability to deliver new product features to the customer in just a few months, as compared to a year or more with traditional waterfall processes. Release Planning is the key practice that drives commitment to a mid-range plan. See these tips for success along with a checklist, detailed meeting agenda and recommended timeline for your first releases.

http://www.rallydev.com/downloads/document/160-release-planning-guide.html

White Paper - Iteration Planning Guide

Iterations are the heartbeat of the Agile team. Getting into the rhythm of these short cycles uses disciplined planning practices supported by daily and iteration-level meetings. This guide includes a recommended iteration schedule for new teams, success tips and a detailed Iteration Planning agenda.

http://www.rallydev.com/downloads/document/161-iteration-planning-guide.html

Making Agile stick  

http://www.techdarkside.com/making-agile-stick

Agile makes better business sense when you use Earned Value as a metric 

Author: David Christiansen 

How we do sprint planning

Chapter from "Scrum and XP from the trenches"

Detailed, real life examples of scrum planning and time estimation in action

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

Author:     Henrik Kniberg

pdf, 168 pages

Timeboxes help multisite teams

Author: Johanna Rothman 

http://www.jrothman.com/pragmaticmanager/timeboxes-help-multisiteteams.html 

Explains what timeboxing is and pragmatically explains the benefits with real applications

http://jrothman.com/blog/mpd/category/timebox?submit=view 

See more from the same author on timeboxing at her blog

Tips and Advice - Time Boxes

http://agiletoolkit.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=447740

Author: Bob Payne and George

AgileToolkit Podcast about the importance of time boxing as an agile concept