Video
What is Agile?
Lynda Course Recommendations:
- Beginner
- Agile Foundations by Doug Rose
Podcasts:
Advanced
Agile Alliance Coaching Network: https://www.agilealliance.org/agile-coaching-network/
Anything by Henrik Kniberg
- 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
What to do When Scrum Doesn't Work?
Focus (or Stop Starting, Start Finishing)
- 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
Process
Don’t Let Your Agile Sprint Become a Mini-Waterfall Project
Team Level
4+3+2+1 Team Success Factors - This is Agile
From I to T: Collaboration of Roles in Agile Teams
Spotify
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.
Scrum Training Series
These 6-8 videos provide a great overview of Agile Scrum and the Scrum Ceremonies.http://scrumtrainingseries.com/
Estimating with Story Points
Documents
Organization Level
Building a Technical Career Path at Spotify
What's the Best Team Structure for DevOps Success?
The Hidden Benefits of Keeping Teams Intact
The 12 Beyond Budgeting Principles explained by members of the Core Team