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What is Agile?
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- Agile Alliance Glossary: This glossary is a great go-to source and starting point for introductory and advanced topics. . If you would like to see some content that is limited to members, Michelle Poysa is a member, send an email and she'll get that content to you.
- On Roles
- Scrum
- Product Owner
- Agile Product Ownership in a Nutshell (15:51)--Kniberg
- How to Explain Agile to Grandparents in Simple Words
- Good companion to the Product Ownership in a Nutshell Video
- How to Explain Agile to Grandparents in Simple Words
- Agile Product Ownership in a Nutshell (15:51)--Kniberg
- Product Owner
- Scrum
Complexity and the Cynefin Sense Making Framework (complex versus complicated and more)
A Leader’s Framework for Decision Making by David J. Snowden Mary E. Boone
The framework sorts the issues facing leaders into five contexts defined by the nature of the relationship between cause and effect. Four of these—simple, complicated, complex, and chaotic—require leaders to diagnose situations and to act in contextually appropriate ways. The fifth—disorder—applies when it is unclear which of the other four contexts is predominant.
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All too often, managers rely on common leadership approaches that work well in one set of circumstances but fall short in others. Why do these approaches fail even when logic indicates they should prevail? The answer lies in a fundamental assumption of organizational theory and practice: that a certain level of predictability and order exists in the world. This assumption, grounded in the Newtonian science that underlies scientific management, encourages simplifications that are useful in ordered circumstances. Circumstances change, however, and as they become more complex, the simplifications can fail. Good leadership is not a one-size-fits-all proposition.
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Estimating Complexity by Liz Keogh Great read and provides a scale for estimating complexity (below)
Planning
- Ultimate Guide to Product Strategy Planning and Prioritizing
- Product Strategy
- GIST
- Goals, Ideas, Step Projects, Tasks
- Simplified GIST and how it works
- Ideas Prioritization
- Feature Scoring
- Planning Poker!! Request Michelle's workshop!!
- Point based system
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On Team Working Agreements
- Short introduction: https://www.slideshare.net/paytonconsulting/agile-team-working-agreements
- I am not sure if you can see this, it might be member only, let me know and I will share: https://www.agilealliance.org/resources/sessions/stop-spinning-your-teams-wheels-its-time-to-revisit-your-working-agreements/
- How To Define Your Team's Norms (And Why It's Important): Practical instructions and guidelines on how to start
The importance of "Equality in conversational turn taking", having "high social sensitivity" and psychological safety 6:22Widget Connector url http://youtube.com/watch?v=_NqdKdafRfk - Forming, Storming, Norming, and Performing Tuckman's Model for Nurturing a Team to High Performance: 8 minute read and good 2 minute video
- What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team: The must read article about research google put in to creating the perfect team
- How to Facilitate Powerful Working Agreements (10 minute read) A practical guide to using social consensus to boost teams performance and mitigate conflicts
Spotify Model and About Tribes, Chapters, Guilds, Squads
- ING on Tribes, Chapters, Squads: 5+ minutes
- Spotify Engineering Culture Videos: These videos represent a snapshot in time at Spotify. They have since refined and improved their methods, as continuous improvements is one of the main tenets of Agile.
- Spotify Part 1, 13+ minutes: Agile > Scrum (or any particular framework); Community > Structure; Trust > Control; Squads: cross functional, co-located, autonomous, Tribes, Chapters, Guilds. Loosely coupled, tightly aligned. Anyone can edit any code, all code reviewed. Routine releases. No handoffs.
- Spotify Part 2
- Spotify Career Paths
- There is No Spotify Model
- Chapters are messy business, from the Spotify Part 1 Engineering Culture Video
On Facilitating Meetings
Lynda Course Recommendations:
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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
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- 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
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Mindset
- Test Your Mindset Quiz
Mental model for the agile mindset: <4 minutes
- The Power of the Agile Mindset, 1h 23m, Keynote Agile Alliance 2011, Linda Rising
Interactive Quiz: Fixed vs Growth Mindsets: In addition to having an interactive growth-v-fixed mindset quiz, this page has a short Dweck video and a video on neural plasticity. They are both worth watching.
The book, Mindset by Carol Dweck, Wallace Library
On New Leadership: Being a Humble Gardener / Servant Leader
- Creating Leadership and Engagement at Every Level, 58m Keynote Agile Alliance 2017, David Marquet
- On the book "Team of Teams" 2 Podcasts With General McChrystal, Full Transcripts on page
- How too many rules at work keep you from getting things done, Yves Morieux,16:31
- Yves Morieux, Six Simple Rules
- The Idealcast with Gene Kim | Episode 11 The Principles and Practices behind Team of Teams--Part 1 (1h 45m)
- Yves Morieux
- Six Simple Rules (short read)
- Understand what your employees actually do
- Find your fighters
- Give people more power
- ... and take away resources from everybody
- Make sure employees eat their own cooking
- Don't punish failure–punish the failure to cooperate
- As work gets more complex, 6 rules to simplify TED talk (11:44)
- How too many rules at work keep you from getting things done, (16:31)
- Six Simple Rules (short read)
Beyond Budgeting/Organizational Agility
How To Make The Whole Organization Agile: (41:23) Stephen Denning Agile Europe 2016
Twelve Lessons of the Learning Consortium
- Acquiring the mindset can take time
- Implementation of the goals principles and values takes time
- Firms are at different places in the journey
- All the journeys involved overcoming setbacks
- All firms are adapting the practices to fit their own context
- The management practices are both durable and fragile
- The new management practices can create a passionate workforce
- This transition to Agile is happening
- It's not about digitalization
- It's not about giving up control
- You need to get started!
- The journey never ends
Process
Don’t Let Your Agile Sprint Become a Mini-Waterfall Project
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These 6-8 videos provide a great overview of Agile Scrum and the Scrum Ceremonies.http://scrumtrainingseries.com/
Estimating with Story Points
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