Tag: Certification

I came across Andy Bacon his blog that lists some interesting articles and resources, you can find it here: https://andybacon.com/agile-resources/

And just in case he ever decides to take his website offline, here is a quick mirror 😉

Some Agile Basics

• Agile Manifesto
• Agile Alliance Agile 101
• Scrum Guides
• Scrum Alliance About Scrum
• Agile Alliance Timeline of Agile Practices
  
• Agile Alliance Subway Map of Agile Practices
• Agile Uprising Coalition
• Ken Rubin’s Innolution Website
• Mike Cohn’s Mountain Goat Software
• Jonathan Rasmusson’s Agile in a Nutshell
• Michael James’ Scrum Training Videos
• Kent Beck’s “Extreme Programming Explained”
• DJA’s Lean Kanban
• Product Owner in  Nutshell (Henrik Kniberg)
• Three simple truths
• Cotter Leader Change Process

Agile Related Certifications

• Scrum Alliance (CSM, CSPO, CST, etc.)
• Scrum.org (PSM, etc.)
• PMI (PMI-ACP)
• IC Agile (ICP, etc.)
• Lean Kanban University
• SAFe (SPC, SA, etc.)

Scaling Frameworks

• SAFe
• Nexus
• LeSS
• DaD
• Spotify
• Oikosofy Enterprise Agile Framework
• Interesting matrix on scaling options
• Also check out the thought leadership from Leading Agile on the subject of scaling Agility

Retrospectives

• Ideas
  • Fun Retrospectives
  • Retromat
  • Retrospective Wiki
  • Tasty Cupcakes
  • Prime Directive
• Books
  • Agile Retrospectives:  Making Good Teams Great
  • Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives
  • Project Retrospectives: A Handbook for Team Reviews
  • Agile Retrospective Kickstarter
• Tools for Distributed Teams
  • Retrium
  • ScatterSpoke
  • Go Reflect
  • GroupMap
  • Real Time Board
  • Stormzhangout
  • Sococo

Daily Scrum

• What is the daily Scrum?
• It’s not just standing up
• Standup Anti-patterns

Scrum Graphics

• Visual AGILExicon

Checklists

• Scrum Master Checklist via Michael James

User Stories

• What are user stories?
• Splitting user stories
• Not everything has to be a user story (Mike Cohn)

Role of Managers in Agile

• The Agile Leader Whitepaper – via Agile Coaching Institute
• What is an Agile Manager via Oikosofy

DiSC Assessment (free)

• Free DiSC assessment

Games

• Constellation
• Tribes
• Ball Point Game
• Name Game
• Penny Game
• Penny Game Modified
• Lego Scrum Simulation
• Innovation Games

Metrics

• Agile team metrics
• Great blog post by Andy Cleff
• SAFe metrics

Estimation, Data Driven Estimates, and Forecasting

• Free tools from Focused Objective
• Projectr tool
• Data driven estimates
• Some of the research around that great article
• Actionable Agile
• Affinity Estimating

Collaboration Tools

• PointingPoker.com
• Stormboard
• Trello
• JIRA
• VersionOne
• Rally (CA)
• Zenhub
• Nureva
• Sococo
• Google
• Pivotal Tracker

Happiness

• Niko Niko
• Officevibe

Podcasts

• Agile Uprising
• Agile for Humans
• Agile Coffee
• This Agile Life
• Meta-Cast
• Reflection as a Service
• Deliver It

Product Owner Resources

• Opportunity canvas
• Lean canvas
• Product vision
• Product roadmap
• Release plan

Random Helpful Things

• http://www.slideshare.net/derekwinter/an-agile-development-primer
• http://openspaceagility.com/at-a-glance/

Technical Topics

• Appium (mobile app automation)
• Cyber-Dojo