This page is a work in progress with all kinds of collected agile resources. See also
[Publications] for business agility stories and resources by Michael Herman.
GETTING STARTED
context
approaches
open space and agility
foundational books and stories
- Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time, Sutherland
- The New New Product Development Game, HBR 1986, Takeuchi and Nonaka - [link]
- [Embracing Agile] - HBR recognizes Agile, publishes Rigby, Sutherland and Takeuchi introduction, six steps
- Enterprise Scrum: Agile Management for the 21st Century, Beedle
- [Company-wide Agility] with Beyond Budgeting, Open Space & Sociocracy: Survive and Thrive on Disruption, Eckstein and Buck
- Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business, Anderson
- PersonalKanban, Benson and Barry
- Open Space Agility, Mezick and others
- RadicalManagement, Denning
- ZoneToWin, Moore
- BlueOceanStrategy, Kim and Mauborgne
- XP Explained, Beck
- TheLeanStartup, Reis
- ThisIsLean, Modig and Ahlstrom
- Continuous Improvement in a Flash, Ottinger
- Agile in a Flash, Langr and Ottinger
- LiftOff, Larsen and Nies
- Retrospectives, Larsen and Derby
- Coaching Agile Teams, Adkins
- Phoenix Project, Kim, Behr and Spafford
- TheGoal, A Process of Ongoing Improvement, Goldratt
- TurnTheShipAround, Marquet
- The OpenXP Solution, Walsh - see Inviting Requirements above (top section)
- [Top Agile Blogs of 2017] - more and current topics
facilitation and coaching
user groups, coach camps, and coaching
SCRUM
introduction(s) to scrum
stories, mapping, and discovery
- [Skills for Great Product Owners] - Lowell Lindstrom at Scrum Alliance
- RequirementsStoriesBacklog - collected notes
- Deep Dive Method, IDEO Shopping Cart, Nightline - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M66ZU2PCIcM
- Jeff Patton, Won’t get fooled again - evolving from self-deception to learning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4lIeNJx3QI
- Jeff Patton with Luke Hohmann, User Story Mapping at Scale - [Scrum Alliance Webinar]
- [Clean Language Questions for Story Mapping]
- Jeff Patton, Dual Track Development - http://jpattonassociates.com/tag/dual-track-development/
- Gabrielle Benefield - [If Agile's So Good, Why are Products so Bad?] - targeting value, building the right thing
- [3D Kanban] - capture full breadth before breaking down products into epics, features, scenarios, stories
no estimates
advanced
BUSINESS AGILITY
agile enterprise
- [Agile at Scale] - HBR Podcast, Jeff Sutherland and Darrell Rigby
- [What do Agile and Electricity have in Common?] - useful perspective on the magnitude of change that's underway, and required
- [Reinvention: To Hold On, Let Go] - Nadya Zhexembayeva at TEDxNavesink
- [Strategic Agility
Part 1] [Part 2] and [Mindset] - Steve Denning in Forbes
- [Culture for a Digital Age] McKinsey? Quarterly, July 2017
- [PMI 2012 Report on Organization Agility] - what defines OrganizationalAgility?
- [Changing Company Culture Requires a Movement, Not a Mandate] - HBR article in support of Inviting, June 2017
- [Agility is Key to Digital Transformation] - a short list of key points for agilizing and digitizing the enterprise via forbes.com
- [What is Business Agility?] - Steve Denning’s three laws that sustain business agility: law of customer, law of small team, law of network (video and slide deck)
- OpenSpace Agility at PayPal - https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=147&v=oycgIzUgzNc
- Beyond Budgeting - http://www.agilealliance.org/resources/learning-center/keynote-beyond-budgeting-agile-management-model-new-business-and-people-realities-statoil-implementation-journey
- [Learning Consortium for the Creative Economy] - collected case studies, via Scrum Alliance, 2015 report
- [How to Create an Agile Organization] - McKinsey? global survey and white paper
- [Business Agility Startups] - presentation by Jay Goldstein at Enterprise Scrum Business Agility Global Conference 2017
- [NYTimes, Enterprise Agility]
agile and human resources
- [Agile People] - A Radical Approach for HR & Managers (That Leads to Motivated Employees)
- [Agile 4 HR] - Thinking about HR from an agile practice perspective, the project and the book (also the animal farm game)
- [Agile HR with SAFe 4.0] - applies SAFe’s version of Lean-Agile to people operations
agile marketing
principles - idea meritocracy
agile in government and community organizations
EVOLUTION OF PRACTICE
scaling
agile fluency
grows method
culture
programmer anarchy/microservices
agile in school
learning
ADAPTATION AND TOOLS
canvases
distributed agile teamwork
web tools
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