Craig and Renee, sitting in a shoe-box sized hotel room in Sydney eating peanut M&Ms, decided to rustle through the mailbag and answer a bunch of outstanding questions.
Note: this episode is not sponsored or endorsed by M&Ms but we certainly enjoy their product!
Crossing The Chasm
- more and more organisations seem to be crossing the chasm to Agile, but too many are still just doing and not being Agile
- inimal viable product (MVP) is still the trend word, the next stage is Minimal Viable Experience and then Minimal Viable Robustness to Minimal Marketable Product and finally Continuously Evolving Product
- Enterprise Transformation Meta Model
- Agile is a true north concept, not sure that you will ever get there
Suggested reading list on where to start with Agile:
- General Books: Scrum Guide, Extreme Programming Explained
- Developers: The Pragmatic Programmer
- Scrum Master: The Human Side of Agile
- Kanban: Personal Kanban, Kanban In Action
- Portfolio: Essential Scrum
- Product Owner: Agile Product Management with Scrum, User Story Mapping
- Business Analysis: User Stories Applied, Writing Effective Use Cases, Specification By Example, UML Distilled, Agile Extension to the BABOK Guide
- Testing: Agile Testing, More Agile Testing
- see the Top 100 Agile Books list, unfortunately the world is still too complex
What certification should a new Scrum Master get:
- passing through the corporate filter, you probably need some key certification to get a look in
- CSM / PSM is valuable if you have a good quality trainer
- Kanban resources include the Kanban Yahoo! Group, Kanban and Kanban and Scrum: Making The Most of Both
- Craig’s 2010 talk “Kaizen with GreenHopper: Visualising Agile & Kanban Storywalls“
- one of the various scaled certifications (versus building your own)
- ICAgile pathway is good as it is allows you to be skillset specific
- Agile Coaching Institute (starts at ICAgile skill set)
- learning is 70:20:10
- just get your hands dirty!
- leadership needs to support as Agile well: The Leader’s Guide to Radical Management, Creating Great Teams, Management 3.0
- community events like meetups and conferences
- get a mentor!
Building your own scaled framework
- Holacracy and Reinventing Organizations
- need to answer questions around ensuring quality, growing capability, benefits realisation, etc…
- at what level do the questions need to be answered
- Minimal Viable Organisations
- scale on the operational cadence of the problems of the organisation, not following a framework
- how often do we check that our approach is meeting our needs
Visualising business analysis in a Scrum team
- 3 Amigos approach
- call it what it is if you’re sprint length is longer than it is
- focus more on Kanban flow
Reading List
- Renee is reading about climate change (and how that applies to Agile) including “This Changes Everything” by Naomi Klein
- Craig is reading “CTRL-SHIFT” by Jessie Shternshus and Mike Bonifer
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