Recommended Digital Materials

Video

What is Agile?

Introductory Material

• 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.

Spotify Model and About Tribes, Chapters, Guilds, Squads

• 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

Lynda Course Recommendations:

• 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
       

Podcasts:

• Advanced

  • Agile Alliance Coaching Network: https://www.agilealliance.org/agile-coaching-network/

Anything by Henrik Kniberg 

Agile: Where Are We At? 

• 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

What to do When Scrum Doesn't Work?

Utilization Trap (Total time: 5:33)

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

Agile Mindset

• Mental model for the agile mindset: <4 minutes 

• The Power of the Agile Mindset, 1h 23m, Keynote Agile Alliance 2011, Linda Rising
  

New Leadership / Servant Leadership

• 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

Beyond Budgeting/Organizational Agility

Beyond Budgeting – An Agile Management Model for New Business and People Realities – The Statoil Implementation Journey: Bjarte Bogsnes

Process

Don’t Let Your Agile Sprint Become a Mini-Waterfall Project

Team Level

4+3+2+1 Team Success Factors - This is Agile

Agile Resource Allocation

From I to T: Collaboration of Roles in Agile Teams

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