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| 001 | Start with Steve Denning’s Forbes article on “Why Managers hate Agile”. It is a great introduction to the Agile Management Philosophy. |
| 002 | Scrum is a way of work that gives more detail on how to take the Agile philosophy and make it real. Browse through the Scrum Guide. It is a short but punchy read by the authors of the methodology. |
| 003 | Underlying to the Agile way of thinking is the Lean movement. Craig Larman and Bas Vodde have summed it up quiet nicely. A great little meme is their Lean Thinking House diagram. |
| 004 | A major theme in the new Ways of Working transformation is how we motive people. We like Dan Pink’s approach of focusing Purpose, Mastery, and Autonomy. Have a look at his Ted talk. |
| 005 | To get products and services to a customer quicker we must enable our processes to flow. Nobody has illustrated this better than this clip by Henrik Kniberg. |
| 006 | Agile primarily focus on product development. DevOps is the way we extend Agile into Operations. The focus here is on automation. Wurster gives a solid overview of what DevOps is. A typical Gartner read with enough bullets and list to keep you reading. If you do not have access to Gartner try this: Navigating DevOps |
| 007 | If you have made it this far you are at about an entry level of mastery when it comes to Agile and DevOps. To make it to the proficient level you should look at Fitzgerald’s academic journal article on Continuous Software Engineering. The authors here give an overview of all the major tenets of Lean, Agile and DevOps. The authors also discuss sexy IT terms like continuous delivery and continuous integration. Be weary – it is not for the faint hearted. The bottom line – if it moves automate it. |
| 008 | Taking a ‘For–Us/By–Us’ approach, we developed a maturity model for the continuous improvement of engineering practices within Feature Teams. The model is lovingly referred to as Continuum and gives teams a clear path to engineering mastery. |
| 009 | Culture is the smell of a place. Can't really put your finger on it, but it defines everything. Katzenbach knows what he is talking about. Browse through his Principles of Organisational Culture to get a sense on how to approach this thorniest of topics. |
| 010 | Finally, get an overview of SAFe–the Scaled Agile Framework–by watching this 7-minute overview by Inbar Oren. SAFe provides a framework for working in an agile manner at scale. Other frameworks you could use to scale your Lean-Agile transformation are Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS) and Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD). Choose any model but adapt it to your situation. The framework is the least of your issues. |
new Ways of Working Toolkit
Now that you have at solid foundation you can start developing your own set of tools to improve your management. Below is our new Ways of Working Toolkit and provides a thinking framework to think about modern management. It is an evolution of our previous model.
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