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What is Agile?

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)

Excellent 8 minute video:

Good Video:

Short introduction: ttp://www.payton-consulting.com/agile-team-working-agreements-guide/
Here is a podcast on working agreements, I would suggest listening to the whole thing: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6QISZ3RNEPDArc8dEy9tdi?si=8T2NF3l4Ska1Ys0Id2Nyyw
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 6:22
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

Agile à la Spotify: At Spotify we have our own “Agile à la Spotify” manifesto to create alignment and direction for our improvement work. This blog post describes the background for creating the document, what it is and how we are using it.
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
- Part 1: Building a technical career path at Spotify
- Part 2: Spotify Technology Career Steps
- Part 3: Things We Learned Creating Technology Career Steps
There is No Spotify Model

Beginner
- Agile Foundations by Doug Rose, 1h 35m
Intermediate
- Enterprise Agile: Disciplined Agile Versus Spotify, 1h 11m, the second half of this video talks in detail about chapters, guilds, tribes, squads, system owner role, etc.
- Enterprise Agile: Changing Your Culture, 1h 25m
- Agile at Work: Building Your Agile Team, 1h 4m
Advanced
- Strategic Agility, 1h

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.

Utilization Trap (Total time: 5:33)

Avoid The Blame Game: Be Accountable For Accountability: (short read) Let’s Acknowledge reality. Embrace it! Find solutions! and Make it happen!

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

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
What's Missing in the Agile Manifesto: Mindset
Agile is Not Scrum
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

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
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)

How To Make The Whole Organization Agile: (41:23) Stephen Denning Agile Europe 2016

Twelve Lessons of the Learning Consortium