Agility: Further Reading

Must-Read Preparation for Agile Course

1. McKinsey Research – Why Agility Pays
   1. iit.life/agilitypays 
2. Website: The Agile Manifesto
   1. iit.life/agilem
3. Website: Scrum Guide
   1. iit.life/scrumguide
4. Guide: Kanban
   1. iit.life/kanban
5. TEDTalk & Book: Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
   1. iit.life/drive

Foundational Materials

1. Website: The Agile Manifesto
   1. iit.life/agilem
2. Website: Scrum Guide
   1. iit.life/scrumguide
3. Guide: Kanban
   1. iit.life/kanban
4. Guide: Concept and Inception
   1. iit.life/inception

Agile Research

1. McKinsey Research – Organising for the future
   1. iit.life/org4future
2. McKinsey Research – Why Agility Pays
   1. iit.life/agilitypays 
3. McKinsey Research – Speed and Scale via Customer Journeys
   1. iit.life/customerjourney

Sports Teams and Special Ops analogies

• Leadership Lessons from Soccer
• English Premier League - Management Lesson?
• Agile Special Forces 

Case Studies

1. Book: Coca Cola: Design to Grow with Scale and Agility
   1. Case Study iit.life/coke
2. How Netflix Reinvented HR
   1. iit.life/netflix-hr
3. GE Healthcare goes Agile
   1. iit.life/ge
   2. Case Study iit.life/ge2
4. Case Study: Family Practice GP
   1. iit.life/family-practice-agile
5. Scrum at Amazon
   1. iit.life/amazon

6. ING Direct Squads

   1. iit.life/squads-ing
   2.  

Australian Case Studies

1. Turnbull’s Government Borrows from his IT past
   1. iit.life/agile-turnbull
2. Telstra CIO: We’ll be the region’s best IT shop
   1. iit.life/telstra
3. Why Agile Works
   1. iit.life/why-agile
4. Black Swans and White Lies
   1. iit.life/rea
5. CIO: Time to Get Agile
   1. iit.life/cio-agile

Practice Insights

• Retros at Scytl (Spanish Elections) http://www.smokingbrains.com/blog-en/how-to-run-a-large-project-retrospective/
• Retros at Pragmateam (Telstra) http://pragma.team/blog/2016/2/9/spiceupyourretro

Supporting Theory

1. TEDTalk & Book: Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
   1. iit.life/drive
   2. iit.life/drive-book
2. TEDTalk: How Great Leaders Serve Others
   1. iit.life/david-marquet
3. Slide Pack: The Netflix Culture
   1. iit.life/netflix
4. TEDTalk & Book: Flow, the secret to happiness
   1. iit.life/flow
   2. iit.life/flow-book
5. Book & Website Connected Company
   1. iit.life/cc
   2. Iit.life/connected
6. Lancaster Bomber Experiment
   1. iit.life/lancaster

Emerging Frameworks

1. Large Scale Scrum - LeSS
   1. less.works
2. Scaled Agile Framework - SAFe
   1. scaledagileframework.com
3. Spotify Squadification & Tribes
   1. iit.life/spotify
   2. iit.life/spotify1
   3. iit.life/spotify2
4. Trademe Self-selecting teams
   1. iit.life/trademe1 
   2. iit.life/trademe2
5. Holacracy One & Zappos
   1. holacracy.org