Inviting Agility
- Foundations for Inviting Agility – Why Invite Agility?
- Key Insights: Open Space, Inviting Leadership, and the Agile Manifesto
- Agile.FM Podcast Interview – Open Space, Inviting Agility, Enterprise Scrum
- Case Story: Walmart – inviting rapid, global, agile transformation
- What is Business Agility – Forbes’ Steve Denning (short video/slides)
Open Space
- What is Open Space? US West Event Video | Explanation Video | Time-Lapse Video
- Inviting Leadership Guide – all my best Open Space resources in a single document (includes executive summary, guided tour, invitation writing, script, templates, checklists, and other resources for facilitators and meeting sponsors)
- OpenSpaceWorld.org – the leading global practice portal site on the web
- OpenSpaceWorld.com – Harrison Owen’s books/papers, including the Brief User’s Guide
- SMARTer Agile – slide deck, inspired by Sandra Walsh’s OpenXP for requirements gathering in Open Space
- Case Story: Adaptive Challenges – a simple, direct approach to the hardest issues
- Case Story: Strategic Conversation [pdf] – OST for customer-centered strategy development
- Open Space Technology: A User’s Non-Guide – commentary on the inner game of Opening Space, edited from contributions by 37 practitioners around the world
Kanban
- Personal Kanban – a great way to get started
- Essential Kanban Condensed – go deep fast
Scrum
- The Scrum Guide: The Rules of the Game – the definitive guide, famously brief 16 pages
- The New New Product Development Game – Harvard Business Review, inspiration for Scrum
- SCRUM: Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time (Amazon) – by Scrum originator, Jeff Sutherland
- Scrum at Scale Guide – Jeff Sutherland’s take on scaling scrum
Enterprise Scrum
- Enterprise Scrum for Business Agility Guide – practical overview of everything ES
- Agilize Anything (Even City Government) with Enterprise Scrum – slides from Global Scrum Gathering workshop presentation
- Enterprise Scrum for Software Scaling – overview I wrote for Scaling for Dummies, see also InfoGraphic
- What is EnterpriseScrum? – papers and videos by ES originator, Mike Beedle
More Agile Practices
- Story Mapping, Patton – make product thinking and customer experience visible [resources]
- Distributed Teams, Rothman/Kilby – advanced agile practice for working remotely [book]
- Design Thinking – rapid, customer-centric, prototype learning – [Stanford/Resources]
- Beyond Budgeting – financial flexibility for driving business adaptation – [principles]
Agile Strategy and Mindset
- Lean Start-up, Reis – [book] [notes]
- Business Model Canvas, Osterwalder/Pigneur – [book]
- This is Lean, Modig/Ahlstrom [book] [notes]
- Zone to Win, Moore – [book] [notes]
- Radical Management, Denning – [book] [notes]
- BOSSA Nova for Company-wide Agility, Eckstein/Buck – [book] [video]
- The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement, Goldratt – [book] [notes]
Inviting Facilitation
- Clean Language – [notes]
- Liberating Structures, Lipmanowicz and McCandless [book/guides]
- Lean Coffee – [overview]
- Dialogue (per David Bohm) – [overview] [training workshop notes]
Participative Design
- What Agile Can Learn from Participative Democracy? – short slide deck intro to PD
- Constantly Trying to Change? Why not Change to be Adaptive? – PD Intro [more]
- Participative Design Notes – quick reference for six criteria, workshop steps, etc.
- Emery and Trist Environments – understanding the context we work in
- CaseStory: Trist Long Wall Method, c. 1950 – the earliest modern, industrial, self-managing teams – we’re still up against the same human needs and challenges
Expeditionary Learning
- Expeditionary Learning in the Wild – Harvard Business Review
- Expeditionary Learning – design principles
- OutwardBound
I regard it as the foremost task of education to ensure the survival of these qualities: an enterprising curiosity, an indefatigable spirit, tenacity in pursuit, readiness for sensible self denial, and above all, compassion.
– Kurt Hahn, pioneering educator and founder of Outward Bound