https://www.leadingagile.com/2013/07/agile-health-metrics-for-predictability/
Metrics For Measuring The Scrum Team’s Effectiveness | Scrum Master’s Accountability
Some examples of measuring:
- Released increments
- Product Incident Count
- Technical Debt Rate
- Defects + Trends
- Time spent for context switching
Also see the EBM Guide from scrum.org
How Can you Measure the Impact of your Scrum Masters?
Have you been wondering how you can measure the impact of your Scrum Masters? And how these Scrum Masters or Agile coaches can really help with the bottom-line result? Working with agile or Scrum generally means having several Scrum Masters in place, but can you measure their effectiveness and impact. If so, read this article by Peter Koning:
https://www.scrum.org/resources/blog/how-can-you-measure-impact-your-scrum-masters
When are SMART goals not-so-smart?
Interesting read from Kurt Bittner which may help you in preparing for the EBM exam 🙂
https://www.scrum.org/resources/blog/when-are-smart-goals-not-so-smart
Agile Resources
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
- Books
- Tools for Distributed Teams
Daily Scrum
Scrum Graphics
Checklists
User Stories
Role of Managers in Agile
DiSC Assessment (free)
Games
- Constellation
- Tribes
- Ball Point Game
- Name Game
- Penny Game
- Penny Game Modified
- Lego Scrum Simulation
- Innovation Games
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
Happiness
Podcasts
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
Innovation Accounting in Scrum
Abstract: In Scrum a Product Owner can be described as a “value maximizer”…but how is value calculated? In this presentation we consider how empiricism ought to underpin any assessment, and at how the discipline of “Innovation Accounting” can challenge predictive value assumptions.
How to do a Retrospective using Flow Metrics
In this article you can read how Christian Hofstetter has applied flow metrics to run a retrospective with the goal to gain more insight and deciding what to do to improve.
You can find the article here: https://medium.com/the-liberators/how-to-do-a-retrospective-using-flow-metrics-612bf48bdeba