Download or read book Best Agile Articles 2020 written by Cherie Silas MCC and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are delighted to bring you this volume of the best agile articles of 2020. Our goal in publishing this book is to cull through the many articles that are published every year to bring you a curated set of high-quality articles that capture the latest knowledge and experience of the agile community in one compact volume. Our purpose is twofold. First, we understand that it can be hard to figure out where to go when looking for ideas and answers. There are thousands of blogs, videos, books, and other resources available at the click of a mouse. But that can be a lot to sort through. So, we thought we could be of some assistance. Second, we wanted to bring some visibility to many people who are doing good work in this field and are providing helpful resources. Our hope is that this publication will help them connect to you, the ones they are writing for. Our intention is that this publication is to be by the agile community as a service to the agile community and for the agile community. With that in mind, we pulled together a great group of volunteers to help get this work into your hands. The articles in this volume were selected by: - A diverse Review Committee of twenty-four people with expertise in a variety of areas related to agile.- The agile community. A call for nominations went out in early 2020 and over 120 articles were nominated by the community. We selected the top 50 articles to present in the publication.The articles themselves cover a wide variety of topics, including organizational structure, culture, and agile leadership. There is something for almost everyone here. This is the fourth book in the series. Previous books, Best Agile Articles of 2017, 2018, and 2019, are available on Amazon and on the website at https: //baa.tco.ac/books.We are thankful for the great participation of the agile community at large and to our sponsor, Scrum.org.

Download or read book Best Agile Articles Of 2017 written by Michael de la Maza and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-11-08 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays about agile and agile coaching from leading practitioners in the field. Includes the following authors and their contributions: Pete Behrens Lean Startup has Changed Nothing!; Sonja Blignaut If you want to innovate, don't say so; Melissa Boggs At the Intersection of Culture & Strategy; Zach Bonaker Scrum Guide Sliders; Braz Brandt Agile in Highly Regulated Environments; Maxime Castera What Kids Taught Me About Being Agile; Felipe Castro & Alexandre Freire Kawakamai Transcend the "Feature Factory" Mindset Using Modern Agile and OKR; Mike Cohn Five Lessons I'm Thankful I Learned in My Agile Career; Esther Derby Change Artist Super Powers: Empathy; Bob Galen Agile Coaching: An Awful Truth; Gene Gendel Addressing Problems, Caused by AMMS; You Get What you Ask For: Agile Coaches-"Centaurs"; What Should Agile Leadership Care About?; "Who are the Judges?" Who Decides on Who is Gonna Coach?; Gene Gotimer An Agile Approach to Software Architecture; David Hawks The User Story Needs A Remodel. Here's Why; Chris Hoerée Eco Leadership, A leadership approach for the ecosystems of tomorrow; Rowan Jackson British Airways: A Brilliant Example of How Cost-Cutting Increases Costs; Ivar Jacobsoen & Roly Stimson Escaping Method Prison; Jeremy Jerrell Becoming A Non-technical Scrum Master; Ron Jeffries Implications of Enterprise Focus in Scrum; Betsy Kaufmann Does Your Coaching Build Roadblocks Instead of Relationships?; Jason Knight Myth: Scrum Events Take Too Much Time; Klaus Leopold WIP Limits Must Die; John Looney Engineering a Culture of Psychological Safety; Yi Lv Seeing the system dynamic: 1 vs. n product backlogs; Nirmaljeet Malhorta Why the idea of a scrum team is so powerful; Ian Mitchell 20 Unagile Things to Avoid Saying and Some Better Alternatives; Chris Murman What Can You Do About Organizational Silence?; Dave Nicolette Zombie Scrum; Stephanie Ockerman 4 Ways to Coach with the Scrum Values; Tim Ottinger Feeling Safe?; Barry Overeem Myth 8: The Scrum Master is a Junior Agile Coach; Niels Pflaeging Change is more like adding milk to coffee; Allison Pollard Starting an Agile Center of Excellence; Mary Poppendieck The Cost Center Trap; E. Campbell-Pretty Facilitating Squadification for a SAFe Agile Release Train; Jane Prusakova Honest or Nice; Paulo Rebelo Don't Limit the Role of the Scrum Master; Chelsea Robinson Empowering a new culture to emerge in organizations; Johanna Rothman Agile Approaches Require Management Cultural Change; With Agile, No Warnings Needed; Power, Management, and Harassment: It's a Cultural Problem; Rafael Sabbagh The Burger House: A Tale of Systems Thinking, Bottlenecks and Cross-Functionality; Michael Sahota Consciously Approaching Agile for Lasting High Performance; Reese Schmit Stop Wasting $$$ Building So Much Crap!; Ken Schwaber Scrum is simple, just use it as is!!; Hadyn Shaugnessy Managing Culture Risk: A Matter of FLOW; Salma El-Shurafa Innovation: Best Practice for Product Leaders; Cherie Silas The Power of Interlocking Roles; Zuzi Sochova Scrum Transformation Journey ; James Sywilok The Scrum Task Board and the Self-Managing Team; Christine Thompson 3 Skills for an ACE ScrumMaster; Building Trust Safely at Work; Scrum Chums: The Product Owner and Scrum Master Partnership; Plus 5 more authors!

Download or read book Doing Agile Right written by Darrell Rigby and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2020-05-26 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agile has the power to transform work--but only if it's implemented the right way. For decades business leaders have been painfully aware of a huge chasm: They aspire to create nimble, flexible enterprises. But their day-to-day reality is silos, sluggish processes, and stalled innovation. Today, agile is hailed as the essential bridge across this chasm, with the potential to transform a company and catapult it to the head of the pack. Not so fast. In this clear-eyed, indispensable book, Bain & Company thought leader Darrell Rigby and his colleagues Sarah Elk and Steve Berez provide a much-needed reality check. They dispel the myths and misconceptions that have accompanied agile's rise to prominence--the idea that it can reshape an organization all at once, for instance, or that it should be used in every function and for all types of work. They illustrate that agile teams can indeed be powerful, making people's jobs more rewarding and turbocharging innovation, but such results are possible only if the method is fully understood and implemented the right way. The key, they argue, is balance. Every organization must optimize and tightly control some of its operations, and at the same time innovate. Agile, done well, enables vigorous innovation without sacrificing the efficiency and reliability essential to traditional operations. The authors break down how agile really works, show what not to do, and explain the crucial importance of scaling agile properly in order to reap its full benefit. They then lay out a road map for leading the transition to a truly agile enterprise. Agile isn't a goal in itself; it's a means to becoming a high-performance operation. Doing Agile Right is a must-have guide for any company trying to make the transition--or trying to sustain high agility.

Download or read book Coaching Agile Teams written by Lyssa Adkins and published by Addison-Wesley Professional. This book was released on 2010-05-18 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Provocative and Practical Guide to Coaching Agile Teams As an agile coach, you can help project teams become outstanding at agile, creating products that make them proud and helping organizations reap the powerful benefits of teams that deliver both innovation and excellence. More and more frequently, ScrumMasters and project managers are being asked to coach agile teams. But it’s a challenging role. It requires new skills—as well as a subtle understanding of when to step in and when to step back. Migrating from “command and control” to agile coaching requires a whole new mind-set. In Coaching Agile Teams, Lyssa Adkins gives agile coaches the insights they need to adopt this new mind-set and to guide teams to extraordinary performance in a re-energized work environment. You’ll gain a deep view into the role of the agile coach, discover what works and what doesn’t, and learn how to adapt powerful skills from many allied disciplines, including the fields of professional coaching and mentoring. Coverage includes Understanding what it takes to be a great agile coach Mastering all of the agile coach’s roles: teacher, mentor, problem solver, conflict navigator, and performance coach Creating an environment where self-organized, high-performance teams can emerge Coaching teams past cooperation and into full collaboration Evolving your leadership style as your team grows and changes Staying actively engaged without dominating your team and stunting its growth Recognizing failure, recovery, and success modes in your coaching Getting the most out of your own personal agile coaching journey Whether you’re an agile coach, leader, trainer, mentor, facilitator, ScrumMaster, project manager, product owner, or team member, this book will help you become skilled at helping others become truly great. What could possibly be more rewarding?

Download or read book The Art of Agile Development written by James Shore and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2008 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For those considering Extreme Programming, this book provides no-nonsense advice on agile planning, development, delivery, and management taken from the authors' many years of experience. While plenty of books address the what and why of agile development, very few offer the information users can apply directly.

Download or read book Agile Practice Guide written by and published by Project Management Institute. This book was released on 2017-09-06 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agile Practice Guide – First Edition has been developed as a resource to understand, evaluate, and use agile and hybrid agile approaches. This practice guide provides guidance on when, where, and how to apply agile approaches and provides practical tools for practitioners and organizations wanting to increase agility. This practice guide is aligned with other PMI standards, including A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) – Sixth Edition, and was developed as the result of collaboration between the Project Management Institute and the Agile Alliance.

Download or read book Rethinking Agile written by Klaus Leopold and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-15 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All of the agile cards have been pulled, and nonetheless new products still do not get faster to the market. If this situation seems familiar, you should read this story about a company that prepared their agile transition in exemplary fashion: 600 employees reorganized into cross-functional teams, their work visualized and practically perfect Standups and Retrospectives held. The result: Time-to-Market for the products became worse - and not a trace of business agility.This book shows you what goes wrong with many agile transitions and why the desired improvements fail to materialize. You also learn how to get out of a dead end and what can be done before starting a transformation in order to prevent heading down a dead end to begin with.A little preview: Do not start by making teams agile - this will save your nerves and lots of money!

Download or read book Agile Testing written by Lisa Crispin and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2009 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crispin and Gregory define agile testing and illustrate the tester's role with examples from real agile teams. They teach you how to use the agile testing quadrants to identify what testing is needed, who should do it, and what tools might help. The book chronicles an agile software development iteration from the viewpoint of a tester and explains the seven key success factors of agile testing.

Download or read book Agile People written by Pia-Maria Thoren and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corporate cultures, global mindsets, and employee priorities are changing, which means management and human resources departments must also evolve. To ensure teams are well crafted, motivated, and successful, managers and HR professionals must step outside their comfort zone and adapt to younger, newer ways of thinking-they must become Agile. In Agile People, management consultant Pia-Maria Thoren outlines how managers, human resources professionals, company decision-makers, and employees can adopt the flexible, fluid, customer-focused mindset of modern tech companies to inspire their workers and strengthen their organizations. This essential handbook explains both the theories and practical applications behind the Agile framework, showing how companies can do the following: -Create a structure and culture for an organization to meet future challenges -Give management and HR the changed mindset and the tools to facilitate employee drive and performance -Empower employees to become motivated stakeholders -Adopt hiring practices that value attitude, behavior, and competence -Create a passionate, loyal, and accomplished workforce No matter the size of a company, it can benefit from an Agile mindset and launch into a future filled with successful leadership and motivated employees.

Download or read book Agile Retrospectives written by Esther Derby and published by Pragmatic Bookshelf. This book was released on 2006-07-26 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Project retrospectives help teams examine what went right and what went wrong on a project. But traditionally, retrospectives (also known as “post-mortems”) are only held at the end of the project—too late to help. You need agile retrospectives that are iterative and incremental. You need to accurately find and fix problems to help the team today. Now Esther and Diana show you the tools, tricks and tips you need to fix the problems you face on a software development project on an on-going basis. You’ll see how to architect retrospectives in general, how to design them specifically for your team and organization, how to run them effectively, how to make the needed changes and how to scale these techniques up. You’ll learn how to deal with problems, and implement solutions effectively throughout the project—not just at the end. This book will help you: Design and run effective retrospectives Learn how to find and fix problems Find and reinforce team strengths Address people issues as well as technological Use tools and recipes proven in the real world With regular tune-ups, your team will hum like a precise, world-class orchestra.

Download or read book Lean Vs Agile Vs Design Thinking written by Jeff Gothelf and published by Sense & Respond Press LLC. This book was released on 2017-10 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As companies evolve to adopt, integrate, and leverage software as the defining element of their success in the 21st century, a rash of processes and methodologies are vying for their product teams' attention. In the worst of cases, each discipline on these teams -- product management, design, and software engineering -- learns a different model. This short, tactical book reconciles the perceived differences in Lean Startup, Design Thinking, and Agile software development by focusing not on rituals and practices but on the values that underpin all three methods. Written by Jeff Gothelf, the co-author of the award-winning Lean UX and Sense & Respond, the tactics in this book draw on Jeff's years of practice as a team leader and coach in companies ranging from small high-growth startups to large enterprises. Whether you're a product manager, software engineer, designer, or team leader, you'll find practical tools in this book immediately applicable to your team's daily methods.

Download or read book Lean Change Management written by Jason Little and published by Happy Melly Express. This book was released on 2014-10-03 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Change resistance is a natural reaction, when you don’t involve the people affected by the change in the design of the change. This book will help you implement successful change and bypass change resistance by co-creating change. The book will do that through examples of how innovative practices can dramatically improve the success of change programs. These practices combine ideas from the Agile, Lean Startup, change management, organizational development and psychology communities. This book will change how you think about change."--

Download or read book Agile 2 written by Cliff Berg and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agile is broken. Most Agile transformations struggle. According to an Allied Market Research study, "63% of respondents stated the failure of agile implementation in their organizations." The problems with Agile start at the top of most organizations with executive leadership not getting what agile is or even knowing the difference between success and failure in agile. Agile transformation is a journey, and most of that journey consists of people learning and trying new approaches in their own work. An agile organization can make use of coaches and training to improve their chances of success. But even then, failure remains because many Agile ideas are oversimplifications or interpreted in an extreme way, and many elements essential for success are missing. Coupled with other ideas that have been dogmatically forced on teams, such as "agile team rooms", and "an overall inertia and resistance to change in the Agile community," the Agile movement is ripe for change since its birth twenty years ago. "Agile 2" represents the work of fifteen experienced Agile experts, distilled into Agile 2: The Next Iteration of Agile by seven members of the team. Agile 2 values these pairs of attributes when properly balanced: thoughtfulness and prescription; outcomes and outputs, individuals and teams; business and technical understanding; individual empowerment and good leadership; adaptability and planning. With a new set of Agile principles to take Agile forward over the next 20 years, Agile 2 is applicable beyond software and hardware to all parts of an agile organization including "Agile HR", "Agile Finance", and so on. Like the original "Agile", "Agile 2", is just a set of ideas - powerful ideas. To undertake any endeavor, a single set of ideas is not enough. But a single set of ideas can be a powerful guide.

Download or read book Leadership Agility written by William B. Joiner and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2006-10-20 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leadership Agility is the master competency needed for sustained success in today’s complex, fast-paced business environment. Richly illustrated with stories based on original research and decades of work with clients, this groundbreaking book identifies five levels that leaders move through in developing their agility. Significantly, only 10% have mastered the level of agility needed for consistent effectiveness in our turbulent era of global competition. Written in an engaging, down-to-earth style, this book not only provides a map that guides readers in identifying their current level of agility. It also provides practical advice and concrete examples that show managers and leadership development professionals how they can bring greater agility to the initiatives they take every day.

Download or read book More Effective Agile written by Steve McConnell and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-24 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this comprehensive yet accessible overview for software leaders, the author presents an impactful, action-oriented prescription-covering the practical considerations needed to ensure you reap the full benefits of effective Agile

Download or read book Agile Transformation written by Michael Spayd and published by Addison-Wesley Professional. This book was released on 2020-07-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thousands of Agile and Scrum coaches and practitioners now recognize that the best way to maximize the value of these approaches is to extend them to the entire enterprise. It's not just about making software development work better: organizations can gain value from agile approaches and lessons in a wide variety of processes and systems. Agile practitioners can help organizations achieve these goals -- but, to do so, they need new skills and deeper knowledge. In Coaching the Agile Enterprise, Michael K. Spayd applies tools from professional systems coaching, organization development, change theory, developmental psychology, and leadership thinking to the profound challenges of creating an agile enterprise. He presents a complete foundation of tools, models, and mindsets; then, using realistic case studies, he applies them to Agile scenarios ranging from the individual to enterprise level. Along the way, he covers issues ranging from team management to business unit integration; culture and community to organizational boundaries. Along the way, Spayd shares deep insights about organizations, executives, and culture, drawn from 25 years of personal experience catalyzing change in organizations of all sizes and types, from startups to the Fortune(R) 500. Each of these insights shares a single goal: to help Agile practitioners move beyond teams into the enterprise and executive space.

Download or read book Responsive Agile Coaching written by Niall McShane and published by . This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Responsive Agile Coaching documents a clear, well-researched model that lifts the lid on how agile coaching actually works.