Agile for Starters Learning Path with Blinkist
Week 1 - Core of Agile
Purpose & Goals
Purpose
Get clarity what the topic Agile is about and why it matters to consider Agile for organisations.
Get clarity what the topic Agile is about and why it matters to consider Agile for organisations.
Goals
Understand the Agile Manifesto and its 4 pillars of agile and 12 agile principles. Connect the Agile Manifesto insights to your organisation and derive why it matters.
Understand the Agile Manifesto and its 4 pillars of agile and 12 agile principles. Connect the Agile Manifesto insights to your organisation and derive why it matters.
Resources
- Agile (manifesto) and its 4 pillars of agile and 12 agile principles
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The Elements of Scrum - Summary of key ideas - Book by Chris Sims and Hillary Louise Johnson
- it also includes a chapter that explains the 4 agile values (chapter 3)
- also explains some adjacent concepts like user stories
Week 2 - Scrum
Purpose & Goals
Purpose
Understand the core concepts of the worlds leading Project Management approaches that incorporate Agile at its core. By learning about a concrete implementation of Agile we get from an abstract understanding to a more concrete level.
Understand the core concepts of the worlds leading Project Management approaches that incorporate Agile at its core. By learning about a concrete implementation of Agile we get from an abstract understanding to a more concrete level.
Goals
Understand Scrum - Purpose, Values, Team Setup, Events and Artifacts. Connect Scrum with insight about Agile from week 1 and derive how Scrum might be relevant in your context.
Understand Scrum - Purpose, Values, Team Setup, Events and Artifacts. Connect Scrum with insight about Agile from week 1 and derive how Scrum might be relevant in your context.
Resources
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Scrum - Summary of key ideas - Book by Jeff Sutherland
- more on the core of Scrum and by one of the founders of the method\is more connected to project management (and not as the title above to Software Development)
- the Scrum Guide
- The Scrum Fieldbook - Summary of key ideas - Book by J.J. Sutherland
Week 3 - Kanban Method
Purpose & Goals
Purpose
Understand the core concepts of the Kanban Method - a work management system and incorporates Agile and Lean.
Understand the core concepts of the Kanban Method - a work management system and incorporates Agile and Lean.
Goals
+ Understand the Kanban Method, its core principles and practices.
+ Connect Kanban to Agile, Lean and DevOps.
+ Discover how you can benefit from Personal Kanban to manage yourself.
+ Understand the Kanban Method, its core principles and practices.
+ Connect Kanban to Agile, Lean and DevOps.
+ Discover how you can benefit from Personal Kanban to manage yourself.
Resources
- What ist Kanban? Explained for beginners
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The Phoenix Project - Summary of key ideas - Book by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford
- Links to DevOps, Theory of Constraints, Personal Kanban
- and also is nice to listen to as it is more like a story
- Agile for yourself - Personal Kanban - Summary of key ideas Book by Jim Benson and Tonianne DeMaria Barry
- short explanation of Kanban, WIP
- Retrospectives
Week 4 - Teams
Purpose & Goals
Purpose
Understand the importance of teamwork in context of Agile
Understand the importance of teamwork in context of Agile
Goals
+ Understand cross functional teams as core unit of getting work done
+ Learn about building a team by considering the 5 dysfunctions to overcome
+ Wrapping up Agile for Starters
+ Understand cross functional teams as core unit of getting work done
+ Learn about building a team by considering the 5 dysfunctions to overcome
+ Wrapping up Agile for Starters
Resources
Team foundations
- 5 dysfunctions of a team
- Team Genius and [[Team Genius]]
- Cross Functional Teams - Ideo Shopping Cart example
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