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Agile Leadership
Here are a few pointers to study in order to understand what is different in Agile team management.
Presentation - I Don't Like Mondays
By: Jean Tabaka
How can teams hold effective, decisive meetings? How can Agile coaches ensure useful, goal-focused meetings? And what flows and patterns of meetings can help teams, product owners, and stakeholders derive greater and greater benefits from adopting an Agile process? In this slide presentation, author, Agile coach and Certified ScrumMaster Trainer Jean Tabaka shows that with the right culture and good meeting management, teams won't dread Mondays anymore.
http://www.rallydev.com/downloads/document/10-i-don%27t-like-mondays.html
White Paper - The Top 3 Cost-Cutting Mistakes CIOs Make - And How to Avoid Them
The current economic downturn has resulted in contraction of IT Department budgets and a mandate to allocate resources only to the most critical projects and execute flawlessly. This white paper describes typical reactions to falling budgets and common problems they cause. It then recommends an alternative for achieving cost-savings and improved prioritization using a more Agile framework for effective portfolio management.
http://www.rallydev.com/downloads/document/138-the-top-3-cost-cutting-mistakes-cios-make---and-how-to-avoid-them.html
White Paper - A CIO's Playbook for Adopting the Scrum Method of Achieving Software Agility
Scrum is a proven, Agile software management method that has been widely adopted by organizations seeking to reliably deliver higher quality software. Scrum is a simple process: it has a small set of interrelated practices and rules, is not overly prescriptive, can be learned quickly and produces productivity gains almost immediately. Scrum’s assertion is that recognizing these key principles frees an organization from many of the constraints that prevent effective software development. However, CIOs must also recognize that these key principles imply potentially significant change to the organization that chooses to adopt them.
http://www.rallydev.com/downloads/document/4-a-cio%27s-playbook-for-adopting-the-scrum-method-of-achieving-software-agility.html
Presentation - From Analyst to Owner
For many business analysts, Agile provides a perfect, and ultimately more rewarding, role – product owner. Many BAs will need to rethink their role and their talents to succeed as product owner. In some organizations, BAs support the product owner rather than holding that position themselves. In this slide presentation heavy on exercises and discussion, we will explore how BAs fit on an Agile team.
A presentation by Ronica Roth
http://www.rallydev.com/downloads/document/11-from-analyst-to-owner.html
Sixty Steps in the Right Direction, an article by Michelle Sliger
http://www.stickyminds.com/s.asp?F=S13113_COL_2
Michele Sliger uses a simple exercise to exemplify the changes self-organized teams cause in any company, especially with the project manager. In this week's column, Michele explains how to conduct this exercise and how to review and use the results to improve work relationships and communication. Above all, this exercise should help your whole organization understand how everyone's knowledge of a project's initiatives and goals affects the project's success”
Leading a Self Organizing Team - Mike Cohn
http://www.scrumalliance.org/resources/604
PDF of a presentation on a self-organization and subtle control.
Transitioning to Agile
Starting to go Agile? Start with these steps! by Robin Dymond.
http://www.innovel.net/?p=52
Articles on Group Coherence
Group coherence is the shared state reached by a group of people that allows them to perform one or more tasks in perfect rhythm and harmony with great energy to overcome obstacles. This simplistic interpretation is a starting point for discussion and does not do justice to all the interdisciplinary components of Group Coherence that include behavioral, psychological, spiritual and sociological. There is an excellent article introducing Group Coherence as a process for creating high performing teams at: http://www.agilejournal.com/articles/columns/articles/893-group-coherence-for-project-teams-a-search-for-hyper-productivity; and another article with recommended activities on how to promote Group Coherence and Group Coherence Practice in the Agile Community - http://www.agilejournal.com/articles/columns/articles/1468-group-coherence-practice-in-the-agile-community.
From PMP to ScrumMaster
What is a ScrumMaster?
ScrumMaster is one of the three roles in Scrum. The ScrumMaster is a facilitator, and is the reference for all questions related to the Scrum process.
Scrum DZone RefCardz by Michael James, Danube Technologies Inc.
http://refcardz.dzone.com/refcardz/scrum
"The ScrumMaster facilitates the Scrum process, keeps the Scrum artifacts visible, facilitates Team self-organization (keeping it in the “zone”), helps resolve impediments (at the team level and organizational level), shields the team from interference, and advocates improved engineering practices. The ScrumMaster does these things (and more) without any authority on the Team. The ScrumMaster does not make business decisions or technical decisions, does not commit to work on behalf of the Team, etc. "
Tips for First-time ScrumMasters, by Tirthankar Barari, CSM - Nokia
http://www.scrumalliance.org/articles/126-tips-for-firsttime-scrummasters
Bite off only what you can chew; You thought of apples, I gave you oranges; You thought of apples, I gave you oranges... and other useful tips from a peer.
What are the characteristics of a good ScrumMaster?
What is expected of a ScrumMaster?
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