Video
What is Agile?
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.
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?
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
Agile Mindset
Mental model for the agile mindset: <4 minutes
- The Power of the Agile Mindset, 1h 23m, Keynote Agile Alliance 2011, Linda Rising
- Creating Leadership and Engagement at Every Level, 58m Keynote Agile Alliance 2017, David Marquet
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/