WorkSpace: AgilePracticeLibrary

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

Manifesto - http://agilemanifesto.org |
Scrum - [ScrumGuide] and [Sutherland@Google] and [SutherlandOnShockTherapy]
Scrum@Scale - [Scrum@ScaleGuide]
Enterprise Scrum - [Beedle intro to business agility] - see also [Publications]
Large Scale Scrum (Less) - [Website] [ShortVideo] [LarmanLaws]
BOSSA Nova for Company-wide Agility - [the book] and [the video]
LeanKanban - http://leankanban.com
Enterprise Business Agility by AgilityHealth - https://agilityhealthradar.com/enterprise-business-agility-model/
Design Thinking - [d.school@stanford]
Open Space - OpenSpaceTechnology | [Publications] | [openspaceworld.org]
Open Space Agility - [walmart story] | [osa website]
Modern Agile - [modernagile.org] | [my thoughts on MA]
FAST - http://www.fast-agile.com/home
SAFe - http://scaledagileframework.com/ | EssentialSAFe
DevOps - [Gene Kim: DevOps Deployments]

foundational books and stories

InvitingAgility - the skillful mixing of Open Space and Agile practices.
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
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

AgileCoachesOath? - http://agilecoachesoath.org/ (agile-adapted hippocratic oath)
OpenSpaceTechnology and [Open Space Agility]
Lean Coffee - [quick intro] | [leancoffee.com]
Liberating Structures - http://liberatingstructures.com
AgileForEverybody - notes from Tim Ottinger's Agile2016 session
CleanLanguage - quick reference and some resource links
[Integrative Complexity] - integrating apparent opposites into larger wholes
ParticipativeDesign - fast, elegant model for shifting from bureaucracy to self-management
SearchConference - planning approach integrating system/environment views
ExpertPerformance? - beliefs, strategies, behaviors - vince racciopo
Team Health - http://www.agilityhealthradar.com/teamhealth-assessment/
Agile+Improv - http://www.agilealliance.org/resources/learning-center/keynote-individuals-interactions-and-improvization
Agile Coaching Institute - http://agilecoachinginstitute.com/
Agile Coaching Lessons - http://newtechusa.net/agile-coaching-lessons/
Agile Alliance Video Center - https://www.agilealliance.org/resources/videos/

user groups, coach camps, and coaching

APLN Chicago - http://www.meetup.com/APLN-Chicago/
Agile Angle (Chicago) - http://www.meetup.com/Agile-Angle-Chicago/
Chicago Agile Open Spaces -http://www.meetup.com/Chicago-Agile-Open-Space/
Lean and Agile Learning Network - https://www.meetup.com/Lean-and-Agile-Learning-Network-Chicago/
Agile Coach Camps - http://agilecoachcamp.org/

SCRUM

introduction(s) to scrum

Jeff Sutherland, TEDx Talk on Scrum - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4thQcgLCqk
Jeff Sutherland, HBR podcast - https://hbr.org/ideacast/2016/04/understanding-agile-management
Jimmy Janlen, plan-driven vs. agile adaptive iterative approach - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tj-lavaMkxU
Henrik Kniberg, Product Ownership in a Nutshell - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=502ILHjX9EE
Ken Schwaber, What comes after Scrum? - https://kenschwaber.wordpress.com/2012/10/05/what-comes-after-scrum/
Jeff Sutherland, Scrum Your Kanban - https://www.scruminc.com/how-to-optimize-your-kanban/
Scrum PLoP - a pattern language for hyperproductivity - [conference home] and [published patterns]

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

[Six software experts weigh in on No Estimates] - a good introduction to no estimates movement
[Ron Jeffries on No Estimates] - the inventor of Story Points supports -- and challenges -- the No Estimates movement
[Vasco Duarte on youtube] - strong case for No Estimates and focusing on Value, Estimates vs. Forecasts, 7-steps to No Estimates
[No Estimates in Action] - five ways to rethink software projects, how to get started

advanced

[SpotifyEngineeringCulture - Part I] and [Part II] - blog post summaries with Henrik Kniberg narrated video animation
[ShockTherapy] - scott downey's rapid scrum dojo approach, advanced metrics (pdf) => 240% improvement
[Everything I Need to Know about Agile (in Organization) I Learned from Pair Programming] - Ron Jeffries and Chet Hendrickson keynoting WHILE programming together
[Why do we work?] - greg bryant's reflections on autonomy, self-organization and imposing scrum as a system
[NYTimes: What Google Learned from its quest to build the perfect team] - two keys: airtime and empathy [OR... these five]
[High Performing Teams need Psychological Safety] - HBR on six keys learned at Google

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

[Agile marketing case studies]
[Santander adopts agile approach in marketing] - another case study, featured at marketing week

principles - idea meritocracy

[Ray Dalio interviewed on Bloomberg] - committing to finding the best ideas
[Ray Dalio TED talk] - origins and how the Bridgewater system works in practice
[PrinciplesListed] - 2011 excerpt from Dalio’s book

EVOLUTION OF PRACTICE

scaling

[Johanna Rothman on scaling agile across the organization]
[Johanna Rothman on leveraging small world networks] - a lightweight alternative to S_Fe scaling, cut through the silos
LeanEnterpriseLargeScaleAgileDevelopment, Jez Humble

agile fluency

Larsen, Agile Fluency - http://www.infoq.com/news/2015/02/agileindia-larsen-fluency
Larsen/Fowler?, Agile Fluency - http://martinfowler.com/articles/agileFluency.html
LeanKanban leader David Anderson on [Agile Fluency and Organization Maturity]

grows method

GROWS - http://growsmethod.com/ ...see also [deck] and http://effectiveagileteams.com/
GROWS podcast - http://ryanripley.com/afh-042-the-grows-method-for-adopting-agile-software-development-podcast/

culture

Agile Dress Code (inviting good decisions) - https://work.qz.com/1242801/gms-dress-code-is-only-two-words/
Martin Fowler, Agile Imposition - http://martinfowler.com/bliki/AgileImposition.html
Culture and Mindset - http://snip.ly/r4pjd#https://www.cio.com.au/article/609763/more-agile-need-mindsets-change/

programmer anarchy/microservices

Fred George, ProgrammerAnarchy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIxHmsWCd7g
Fred George, MicroServices? Challenges - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPf5MfOZPY0
Martin Fowler, Microservices - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgdBVIX9ifA
Fred George, Secret Assumption of Agile - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1Efy4RB_kw

agile in school

[Agile Classrooms] - John Miller's work, agilizing work in schools
[Agile Transformation at School] - video shows John Miller's work at Hope School
[Agile Transformation at Hope High School] - Ron Quartel interviews John Miller and others on the Hope School experience

learning

[The Hole in the Wall], [The Future of Learning] and [School in the Cloud] - Sugata Mitra (videos), supporting self-organized learning
[Just like riding a bike] - understanding brain's challenge in learning to ride a backwards bike (video)

ADAPTATION AND TOOLS

canvases

[EnterpriseScrumCanvases] - googlesheet with many different ES canvas templates (view only - contact me for download)
[LeanCanvas] - ash maurya's alternative to business model canvas
[BusinessModelCanvas] - alex osterwalder's business model generation canvas
[90-Day Micro Strategy Model with Dave Logan] - (video) simple canvas for naming and achieving desired outcomes
[simple action planning canvas] - alternative to 90-day microstrategy canvas
[stakeholder inverview canvas] - adapted from [Peter Stevens'] interview canvas

distributed agile teamwork

AgileBill? - http://www.meetup.com/agile3d/?scroll=true
Mark Kilby - https://mckilby.wordpress.com/remotely-agile/
Jesse Fewell (intro) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odiuP1LUfLE&feature=youtu.be
Jesse Fewell (w/ Lisette Sutherland) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9mqxN_Ms2s&feature=youtu.be
Jesse Fewell (timezones) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpZmoqpwlUE&feature=youtu.be
Notes - DistributedAgileTeamwork

web tools

video - http://zoom.us
co-working - http://sococo.com

collaborative docs - http://drive.google.com | http://dropbox.com/paper
lightweight collaborative docs - http://etherpad.com | http://hackpad.com
online canvases - http://conteneo.com (weave)
chat - http://slack.com | hipchat.com

scheduling - http://doodle.com
scheduling - http://vyte.in

planning - http://trello.com | http://cardboardit.com
scrumboard (whiteboard with cards) - http://scrumblr.ca/
stickies/photos wall (e.g. scrumboard or ost marketplace) - http://linoit.com
online meeting agenda, timing, notes - http://www.meetopia.us
timers - [google timer] or [online-stopwatch]

roadmapping - http://aha.io
presentations - http://prezi.com
testing - http://usertesting.com