Here’s a list of books, podcasts, conferences, frameworks, methodologies, models, and other resources related to designing and building great organizations that I think are worth checking out.
If you have any recommended additions, please email or send me a tweet.
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- Defines Agile Scrum implementation, including relevant ceremonies (meetings), roles (Product Owner, Scrum Master, and Team Member), and information radiators (tools)
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- David Anderson gave a great keynote at the CMMI Capability Counts 2017 conference — Kanban is often over-simplified for people who don’t appreciate the whole concept
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- The Amazon reviews complain about the Kindle version of this, but I’m guessing they’re using the traditional Kindle — the figures look great on my Kindle Fire
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Scaled Agile Framework |
- Framework for scaling Agile practices to teams of over 50 people
- Combines best practices from several other sources (e.g. Lean, DevOps, Scrum, Kanban) along with some good tactical recommendations, such as investing in a 2 day, in-person planning events every quarter for the whole team (Program Increment Planning)
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| Disciplined Agile (DA) process decision framework
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- Map (analyze) your operation, find the worst bottleneck, resolve it, and repeat
- Optimize the system, not locally (don’t try to keep each individual machine or person “busy” or productive; instead focus on optimizing the whole system)
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- This is a classic book, written as a fictional story to teach the concepts of the Theory of Constraints
- Note: A graphic novel version of this was recently released, which sounds interesting
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- Teaches the mindset and concepts of DevOps and why DevOps is so critical to increasing organizational agility
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- Quality Management standard, originally focused for manufacturing organizations, that provide a template on how to define best practices related to ensuring Quality in your organization’s operations, leveraging concepts such as formalized surveys asking your customers how you’re doing
- Significant overlap with CMMI PPQA, but has some unique practices
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