Reports
Organisational agility:
How business can survive and thrive in turbulent times published in 2009 in The Economist, but still valid- THE ELUSIVE AGILE ENTERPRISE:
How the Right Leadership Mindset, Workforce and Culture
Can Transform Your Organization by Forbes and Scrum Alliance, 2018 - Agile Survival Guide by Michael Sahota about organization transformation with Agile, and culture ramifications
- The Business Agility Report 2018 reporting on Agility across the Enterprise, showing that the business agility has improved market success
Key Articles
- Products over Projects, by Martin Fowler: benefits of going with product-mode development over project development
- The Agile Fluency Model, by Diana Larsen: evolving use of Agile over time
- Business Agility Report 2018
- State of Scrum Report 2018
- Embracing Agile, by Darrell K. Rigby, Jeff Sutherland, and Hirotaka Takeuchi
- Agile at Scale, by Darrell K. Rigby, Jeff Sutherland, and Andy Nobile
- Why Agile Goes Awry – and How to Fix It, by Lindsay McGregor and Neel Doshi
- DDIB Guide: Detecting Agile BS from US Department of Defence (Defence Innovation Board) (original link) and article about its release. The Guide also refers to two very helpful guideline documents: Defense Innovation Board Ten Commandments of Software and Defense Innovation Board Metrics for Software.
Agile
- Why Mindset is Driving the Age of Agile, by Steve Denning
- For Agile it’s the Best and the Worst of Times, by Steve Denning
- The 12 Stages of the Agile Transformation Journey, by Steve Denning
- Why Agile is Eating the World, by Steve Denning
- Julian Birkinshaw’s Fast/Forward: How Agile Builds Action-Oriented Firms, by Steve Denning
Agile and Organizations
- Embracing the Agile Mindset for Organisational Change, by Marian Willeke & Scott Marsee
- Why Large Companies are Becoming Agile
- Designing Successful Agile Organizations in Asia, by Paul McNamara
- What does it mean to scale Agile?, by Steve Denning
- Scrum of One: How to Bring Scrum into your One-Person Operation, by Alex Andrews
- Planning Doesn’t Have to be the Enemy of Agile, by Alessandro Di Fiore
- How Agile Teams can Help Turnarounds Succeed, by Darrell K Rigby, Simon Henderson, and Marco D’Avino
- Bureaucracy Can Drain Your Company’s Energy. Agile Can Restore It. By Darrell K. Rigby
- Agile is not Just Another Management Fad, by Steve Denning
Running Agile / Scrum / Kanban
- How to Fail with Agile, by Mike Cohn & Clinton Keith
- What’s Wrong with Estimates, by Yorgos Saslis
- Sprint Review Anti-Patterns
- Sprint Review: Much More than Just a Demo
- The 8 Qualities of the Emotional Scrum Master
- The Rise of Zombie Scrum
Scaling Scrum
More Reading on Agile
Recommended Books
- The Age of Agile, by Stephen Denning
Jeff Patton’s demonstrations of the differences between Incremental and Iterative:
Incremental:
Iterative:
Combined Iterative and Incremental
Andrea Benton 