The path
Agile
Agile is not a ceremony or a framework: it is a way of working to deliver value early and adapt to what you learn along the way. Here are the fundamentals, Lean and Kanban, and why the cost of delay and technical debt matter so much.
Topics
Agile Basics
History, Manifesto, Principles, Agile vs Waterfall
Agile Culture
Trust, Psychological Safety, People Focused, Autonomy, Cross-functional Teams, Mastery, Incentives
Scrum
Product Owner, Scrum Master, Sprint, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective, Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Definition of Done, Burn-down Chart, Story Points
Agile Economics
Delay Cost, Guessing Cost, Vertical Slices, Risk, Cost, Revenue, External/Internal Quality, Cost of Change
Lean
Waste, Knowledge Building, Empowered Teams, Quality Built-In, Optimize the Whole, Theory of Constraints, Value Stream Mapping, Inventory, Improvement, Root Cause Analysis
Kanban
Visualization, Boards, Cards, Information Radiators, Digital/Physical, WIP, Limit WIP, Flow Management, Cycle Time, Lead Time, Little's Law, Drum-Buffer-Rope, Throughput, Expedite Items, Context Switching, Swarming, Cumulative Flow Diagram, Pull System, Slack Time
NoEstimates
Projections
User Stories
Writing, Slicing, INVEST
Technical Debt
Management
Story Mapping
Elevator Pitch
Teal Organizations
Software Craftsmanship
Resources
- The Scrum Guide
Book · 10 pages
- What Software Craftsmanship is about
Article · 1 pages
- Software Craftsmanship - Professionalism, Pragmatism, Pride
Book · Sandro Mancuso, Leanpub, 2014 · Whole book · 334 pages
- The Nature of Software Development
Book · Ron Jeffries, Pragmatic Programmers, 2015 · Whole book · 180 pages
- High Performance via Psychological Safety
Article · 2 pages
- Quality vs Speed? I Don't Think So!
Article · 3 pages
- Is High Quality Software Worth the Cost?
Article · 6 pages
- Refactoring -- Not on the backlog!
Article · 6 pages
- The Backlog
Article · 7 pages
Video · 16 min
- Product Champion
Article · 3 pages
Video · 13 min
Video · 13 min
Video · 46 min
- Patterns, Principles and Practices of DDD
Book · Scott Millett, Nick Tune, Wrox, 2015 · Chapters: 2 · 16 pages
- Impact Mapping
Article · 4 pages
Video · 1 h 34 min
- The Art of Agile Development 2nd ed
Book · James Shore, Shane Warden, O'Reilly, 2021 · 482 pages
- The Art of Agile Development
Book · James Shore, Shane Warden, O'Reilly, 2008
- Clean Agile - Back to Basics
Book · Robert C. Martin, Prentice Hall, 2020