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What is Agile?
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Anything by Henrik Kniberg
My Favorite Agile Illustrations from Henrik Kniberg of Spotify Fame: fabulous collection of some of his best drawings and most important, links to the videos that they came from.
HENRIK KNIBERG | Confessions of a Change Agent | Agile Rock Conference 2018 (below)
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- Attitude not a role
- Change is easy if people want it
- Inspire > Change
- Slow down to Speed Up
- Plant Seeds
- Don't beat a dead horse
- Fix it or accept it
- Scale yourself, never work alone
- No ego
- Don't be a toast Scraper
- Don't sell solutions, sell problems
- Make things visible
- Don't inflict help on people
- Get the right people into the room
- Law of 2 feet
- Be brave, be humble, stay curious
- Michelle recommends the entire video, but here are some pointed highlights
- Traditional project management approach versus Agile approach
- 2:20 to 6:00
- Great resource utilization demo and the importance of "pull"ing, prioritization, and maintaining slack.
- 11:00 to 18:20
- Rewarding working hard/effort versus output versus value. Progressing from effort → output → value focused
- 19:00 to 23:00
- Traditional project management approach versus Agile approach
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- Michelle recommends the entire video, but here are some pointed highlights.
- Impact of task/context switching
- 13:40 to 21:00
- Resource utilization demo, very similar to the one from Agile:Where Are We At. Importance of "pull"ing and prioritization. When you want busy people you get busy people... is it good when your CPU is working 100%?
- 32:33
- More on pull
- 38:07 to 39:15
- More on slack. Importance of just in time allocation.
- 41:13 to 42:26
- Ingredients to create focus: slack, say no, prioritization mechanism
- 42:28
- Impact of task/context switching
On Project Management
- Kniberg
- What is an Agile Leader: There is a great bulleted list about what an agile leader should do. It's long, but good.
- What is an Agile Project Leader: Projects vs products and an existential discussion of project management
Agile Mindset
Mental model for the agile mindset: <4 minutes
- The Power of the Agile Mindset, 1h 23m, Keynote Agile Alliance 2011, Linda Rising
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