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 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 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 Enterprise Agile Coaching written by Cherie Silas and published by Tandem Coaching Academy. This book was released on 2021-12-15 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When an Agile coach leaves an organization, the changes developed during their tenure should not roll backward. Compliance is somewhat easy to install and takes hold rather quickly. The challenge with that approach is that when the forcing mechanism (Agile coach) is removed, much of the compliance rolls back to the original position. Sustainable change requires a different strategy. This book introduces the concept of utilizing an Invitational Approach to Enterprise Agile Coaching which can be a crucial catalyst for integrating sustainable change by putting the client in the seat of responsibility.

Download or read book Zombie Scrum Survival Guide written by Johannes Schartau and published by Addison-Wesley Professional. This book was released on 2020-11-13 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Escape “Zombie Scrum” and Get Real Value from Agile! “Professional Scrum and Zombie Scrum are mortal enemies in eternal combat. If you relax your guard, Zombie Scrum comes back. This guide helps you stay on your guard, providing very practical tips for identifying when you have become a Zombie and how to stop this from happening. A must-have for any Zombie Scrum hunter.” --Dave West, CEO, Scrum.org “Barry, Christiaan, and Johannes have done a magnificent job of accumulating successful experiences and sharing their inspiring stories in this very practical book. They don't shy away from telling it like it is, which is why their proposals are always as useful as they are grounded in reality.” --Henri Lipmanowicz, cofounder, Liberating Structures Millions of professionals use Scrum. It is the #1 approach to agile software development in the world. Even so, by some estimates, over 70% of Scrum adoptions fall flat. Developers find themselves using “Zombie Scrum” processes that look like Scrum, but are slow, lifeless, and joyless. Scrum is just not working for them. Zombie Scrum Survival Guide reveals why Scrum runs aground and shows how to supercharge your Scrum outcomes, while having a lot more fun along the way. Humorous, visual, and extremely relatable, it offers practical approaches, exercises, and tools for escaping Zombie Scrum. Even if you are surrounded by skeptics, this book will be the antidote to help you build more of what users need, ship faster, improve more continuously, interact more successfully in any team, and feel a whole lot better about what you are doing. Suddenly, one day soon, you will remember: that is why we adopted Scrum in the first place! Learn how Zombie Scrum infects you, why it spreads, and how to inoculate yourself Get closer to your stakeholders, and wake up to their understanding of value Discover why Zombie teams can't learn, and what to do about it Clear away the specific obstacles to real continuous improvement Make self-managed teams real so people can behave like humans, not Zombies Zombie Scrum Survival Guide is for Scrum Masters, Scrum practitioners, Agile coaches and leaders, and everyone who wants to transform the promises of Scrum into reality. Register your book for convenient access to downloads, updates, and/or corrections as they become available. See inside book for details.

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 Agile Coaching written by Michael de la Maza and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-17 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book about agile coaching with contributions from CECs, CTCs, and CSTs.

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 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 Estimating and Planning written by Mike Cohn and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2005-11-01 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agile Estimating and Planning is the definitive, practical guide to estimating and planning agile projects. In this book, Agile Alliance cofounder Mike Cohn discusses the philosophy of agile estimating and planning and shows you exactly how to get the job done, with real-world examples and case studies. Concepts are clearly illustrated and readers are guided, step by step, toward how to answer the following questions: What will we build? How big will it be? When must it be done? How much can I really complete by then? You will first learn what makes a good plan-and then what makes it agile. Using the techniques in Agile Estimating and Planning, you can stay agile from start to finish, saving time, conserving resources, and accomplishing more. Highlights include: Why conventional prescriptive planning fails and why agile planning works How to estimate feature size using story points and ideal days–and when to use each How and when to re-estimate How to prioritize features using both financial and nonfinancial approaches How to split large features into smaller, more manageable ones How to plan iterations and predict your team's initial rate of progress How to schedule projects that have unusually high uncertainty or schedule-related risk How to estimate projects that will be worked on by multiple teams Agile Estimating and Planning supports any agile, semiagile, or iterative process, including Scrum, XP, Feature-Driven Development, Crystal, Adaptive Software Development, DSDM, Unified Process, and many more. It will be an indispensable resource for every development manager, team leader, and team member.

Download or read book User Stories Applied written by Mike Cohn and published by Addison-Wesley Professional. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thoroughly reviewed and eagerly anticipated by the agile community, User Stories Applied offers a requirements process that saves time, eliminates rework, and leads directly to better software. The best way to build software that meets users' needs is to begin with "user stories": simple, clear, brief descriptions of functionality that will be valuable to real users. In User Stories Applied, Mike Cohn provides you with a front-to-back blueprint for writing these user stories and weaving them into your development lifecycle. You'll learn what makes a great user story, and what makes a bad one. You'll discover practical ways to gather user stories, even when you can't speak with your users. Then, once you've compiled your user stories, Cohn shows how to organize them, prioritize them, and use them for planning, management, and testing. User role modeling: understanding what users have in common, and where they differ Gathering stories: user interviewing, questionnaires, observation, and workshops Working with managers, trainers, salespeople and other "proxies" Writing user stories for acceptance testing Using stories to prioritize, set schedules, and estimate release costs Includes end-of-chapter practice questions and exercises User Stories Applied will be invaluable to every software developer, tester, analyst, and manager working with any agile method: XP, Scrum... or even your own home-grown approach.

Download or read book Agile written by Bertrand Meyer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2014-04-03 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you attracted by the promises of agile methods but put off by the fanaticism of many agile texts? Would you like to know which agile techniques work, which ones do not matter much, and which ones will harm your projects? Then you need Agile!: the first exhaustive, objective review of agile principles, techniques and tools. Agile methods are one of the most important developments in software over the past decades, but also a surprising mix of the best and the worst. Until now every project and developer had to sort out the good ideas from the bad by themselves. This book spares you the pain. It offers both a thorough descriptive presentation of agile techniques and a perceptive analysis of their benefits and limitations. Agile! serves first as a primer on agile development: one chapter each introduces agile principles, roles, managerial practices, technical practices and artifacts. A separate chapter analyzes the four major agile methods: Extreme Programming, Lean Software, Scrum and Crystal. The accompanying critical analysis explains what you should retain and discard from agile ideas. It is based on Meyer’s thorough understanding of software engineering, and his extensive personal experience of programming and project management. He highlights the limitations of agile methods as well as their truly brilliant contributions — even those to which their own authors do not do full justice. Three important chapters precede the core discussion of agile ideas: an overview, serving as a concentrate of the entire book; a dissection of the intellectual devices used by agile authors; and a review of classical software engineering techniques, such as requirements analysis and lifecycle models, which agile methods criticize. The final chapters describe the precautions that a company should take during a transition to agile development and present an overall assessment of agile ideas. This is the first book to discuss agile methods, beyond the brouhaha, in the general context of modern software engineering. It is a key resource for projects that want to combine the best of established results and agile innovations.

Download or read book EMPOWERED written by Marty Cagan and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-12-03 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Great teams are comprised of ordinary people that are empowered and inspired. They are empowered to solve hard problems in ways their customers love yet work for their business. They are inspired with ideas and techniques for quickly evaluating those ideas to discover solutions that work: they are valuable, usable, feasible and viable. This book is about the idea and reality of "achieving extraordinary results from ordinary people". Empowered is the companion to Inspired. It addresses the other half of the problem of building tech products?how to get the absolute best work from your product teams. However, the book's message applies much more broadly than just to product teams. Inspired was aimed at product managers. Empowered is aimed at all levels of technology-powered organizations: founders and CEO's, leaders of product, technology and design, and the countless product managers, product designers and engineers that comprise the teams. This book will not just inspire companies to empower their employees but will teach them how. This book will help readers achieve the benefits of truly empowered teams"--

Download or read book Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming written by Hubert Baumeister and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-04-12 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is open access under a CC BY license. The volume constitutes the proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Agile Software Development, XP 2017, held in Cologne, Germany, in May 2017. The 14 full and 6 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 46 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: improving agile processes; agile in organization; and safety critical software. In addition, the volume contains 3 doctoral symposium papers (from 4 papers submitted).

Download or read book Agile Methods written by Viviane Almeida dos Santos and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-01-13 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 8th Brazilian Workshop on Agile Methods, WBMA 2017, held in Belém, Brazil, in September 2017. The 10 full and 2 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 19 submissions. The papers present empirical studies on agile values and principles; agile practices; agile adoption; agile testing and quality; metrics; conceptual studies; cultural aspects on agile business; organizational transformation and future trends.