Agile Resources

Some useful bookmarks I've collected related to agile.

What is ‘Agile’? A lot of what is considered agile is not new but the term brings together all these concepts into a cohesive whole that can be conceptually understood and leveraged as a whole. And what defines ‘being agile’ is continually evolving as we learn new concepts and thinking. Explore the links below to learn more about the various different topics that fall under the umbrella of modern agility.

History

The Secret History of Agile Innovation

Agile Mindset

• Understanding The Agile Mindset
• What is the Agile Mindset?
• Breaking an Agile Mindset?down

Business Agility

• What is Business Agility?
• Domains of Business Agility
• The five trademarks of agile organizations
• Differences between a traditional organisation and an agile one
• The Six Enablers of Business Agility
• Implementing Agility and Cultural Change
• How organisational structures evolve to become ineffective
• (A) Business Agility Manifesto
• Agile HR – Using agile techniques for recruitment
• Applying Agile to Support and Operations

Empiricism

• Introduction to Empiricism (video)
• Agile is Constant Change
• Escaping the Predictability Trap
• Empiricism, the act of making decisions based on what is

Kanban

• Kanban Explained for Beginners | The Complete Guide
• Kanban Guide for Scrum Teams

Scrum

• The New New Product Development Game (1986)
• The Scrum Guide (current)
• Scrum in 16 minutes
• Scrum Values summary
• Scrum Values Explained
• 5 powerful attributes of good sprints
• Accountability and answering planning questions such as “when do you think this will be done?” or “how is cost tracking?” or “will we hit our launch date?”
• Getting to Done: Balancing Emergence and Delivery
• Scrum, complexity and (No) Universal Truths
• Zombie Scrum – Symptoms, Causes and Treatment
• Dispelling Common Scrum Myths and Misconceptions
• Scrum Patterns and Anti-Patterns
• Scrum Patterns: The Spirit of the Game
• The Scrum in Hardware Guide – Scrum isn’t just for software development, it can be used for anything. Even hardware and vehicle development.
• Scrum Development Process – the original Scrum paper from 1995

Scrum Backlog Refinement

• Myth: Refinement is a required meeting for the entire Scrum Team

Scrum Sprint Review

• Sprint Review purpose

Software Development

• Deliver on Cadence, Release on Demand
• Problems with story point estimates
• Patterns for Managing Source Code Branches

DevOps

• DevOps Team Roles And Responsibilities
• There Is No Such Thing As A DevOps Engineer
• Do not hire a DevOps engineer
• DevOps is a culture, not a role!
• What Is DevOps?
• No, You Are Not a DevOps Engineer
• There’s No Such Thing as a “DevOps Team”
• You are not a DevOps Engineer
• What The Hell Is DevOps?

Evidence Based Management

• Evidence Based Management (explainer video)
• Evidence Based Management Guide
• Empirical Management Explored

Creating Small User Stories

• Guide to Splitting User Stories
• Be Ready, Be Done: The Art of Slicing User Stories
• Getting Small Stories
• Slicing Stories (spoiler: create stories with a single acceptance criteria)
• Effective Story Slicing
• Slicing Epics (Features)
• Not Everything is a User Story – don’t inappropriately use the user story format

Estimating User Stories

• Which Estimation Units Should Your Teams Use For Work Items?
• Resources for Capacity Planning using Story Counts rather than Story Points #noestimates

Architecture

• The Importance of Vertically Slicing Architecture

Quality

• If you are not doing Test First then you are doing it wrong!
• “What’s a good code test coverage to have?”
• Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
• Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams

Productivity

• The Cult of Done
• Liberating Structures

Miscellaneous

• Facilitating discussions and decisions
• Building Consensus
• Agile Portfolio Planning
• Accounting Principles for funding Scrum projects
• With PRINCE2 Agile, the victim is Agile – Part 2

Agile Leadership

• See Leadership Resources article.

Communities of Practice

• Harnessing the power of informal employee networks
• How Communities of Practice and Leadership Build Your Workforce Leadership Skills
• Community of Practices Best Practice
• Communities of Practice: The Organizational Frontier

Culture

• Laloux Culture Model and how it affects Lean and Agile Adoption
• Lean-Agile Mindset
• Creating company culture employees crave: 4 easy steps

Scaling Agile to Larger Organisations

• In Praise Of SWARMing (Scaling Without A Religious Methodology)