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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.
- On Roles
- Scrum
- Product Owner
- Product Owner
- Scrum
On the Cynefin Framework (complex versus complicated and more)
Good Video:
On Team Working Agreements
- 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/
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
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.
- Advanced
Podcasts:
Advanced
Agile Alliance Coaching Network: https://www.agilealliance.org/agile-coaching-network/
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
- 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
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
- Impact of task/context switching
On Accountability
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
On 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
- 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
Team Level
4+3+2+1 Team Success Factors - This is Agile
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/