“One hour per day of study in your chosen field is all it takes. One hour per day of study will put you at the top of your field within three years. Within five years you’ll be a national authority. In seven years, you can be one of the best people in the world at what you do.” – Earl Nightingale

ARTICLES

• The Top 3 Challenges Companies Face During the Transition to Scrum
• Technical Debt! Who ya gonna call?!
• Cooks and Chefs: Why Agile Hasn’t Fixed Our Problems
• 11 Things ScrumMasters Can Do To Help Their Organization
• How does an organization know that it has great Scrum Masters?

DOWNLOADS

• RACI Matrix Template
• Skills Matrix Template
• Product Owner Assessment
• Scrum Master and Agile Coach Assessment
• State of the Agile Report
• ScrumMaster Checklist
• Product Owner Checklist 
• Agile Transformation White Paper 
• Project to Product White Paper
• Story Mapping Playbook
• Splitting User Stories
• Detecting Agile Bullshit 

SCALING FRAMEWORKS AND APPROACHES

• Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
• Large Scale Scrum (Less)
• S3
• unFIX
• Disciplined Agile (SA)
• Spotify Model (See: Don’t Copy the Spotify Model)
• Kanban Method
• Scrum@Scale

BOOKS

• The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
• Value Stream Mapping: How to Visualize Work and Align Leadership for Organizational Transformation
• Modern Software Engineering: Doing What Works to Build Better Software Faster
• Unlocking Agility: An Insider’s Guide to Agile Enterprise Transformation
• Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time
• Evolvagility: Growing an Agile Leadership Culture from the Inside Out
• Agile Transformation: Using the Integral Agile Transformation Framework™ to Think and Lead Differently

SHORT VIDEOS

• Agile Product Ownership in a Nutshell
• Lean and Agile Adoption with the Laloux Culture Model
• Transforming the Pyramid to an Agile Organization
• Five Dysfunctions of a Team
• Spotify Engineering Culture – Part 1
• Spotify Engineering Culture – Part 2
• The surprising truth about what motivates us
• Introduction to LeSS (Large-Scale Scrum)
• The magical science of storytelling

TALKS / PRESENTATIONS 

• Project to Product: Thrive in the Age of Digital Disruption with the Flow Framework – Mik Kersten 
• Complex Adaptive Systems – Dave Snowden
• Agile Business Transformation: What It Takes To Succeed – Joe Justice
• Agile Transformation – Mike Cottmeyer

CASE STUDIES 

• SAFe Case Studies: A lot of case studies that can be filtered by industry and topic.
• LeSS Case Studies: The first LeSS adoptions were probably around 2006 and the first publicly published LeSS description was the Scaling Agile and Lean Development book in 2008. Since then, LeSS has been applied in many products and in many industries.
• Scrum@Scale Case Studies: Scrum@Scale case studies span a wide range of industries and domains.
• Scrum Inc Case Studies: Featured case studies and papers highlight organizations across industries who are implementing Scrum.
• Distributed Scrum Project for Dutch Railways: summary of how a distributed team (Netherlands and India) successfully executed Scrum after a traditionally managed project failed to deliver after three years.  This case study discusses topics such as architecture, requirements, documentation and more.
• Agile Project Management at Intel – A Scrum Odyssey: detailed case study describing how Intel used distributed Scrum within a traditional management culture to reduce cycle time by 66% and eliminate schedule slip within a year.
• Agile Case Study – H&R Block: short summary of how one company helped a very traditional, time-sensitive, consumer tax preparation service transform their business using Scrum.  The real value in this case study are the links to the high-quality, short video testimonials from the participants to explain the benefits of Scrum.
• How to Implement Scrum in an Interrupt Environment: if this sounds like your organization, then you have got to read how Intronis, a leading provider of online backup services, was able to double productivity of their call center in six months.  Scrum Inc. has shared the five steps they followed to help this organization tame the interruption beast.
• Scrum Boosts Effectiveness at the BBC: in this thirty-eight minute video presentation, the Head of Development of the BBC’s New Media Division discusses their multi-year journey to effectively use Scrum.
• Owning the Sky with Agile: this case study describes the results of Jeff Sutherland’s effort of helping Saab Defense adopt Agile practices to develop an advanced fighter jet.  While the title says “Agile”, this is definitely a case study of Scrum’s effectiveness to build mission critical software.
• Effects of Scrum Nine Months Later: case study author, Richard Bank, identifies the lasting benefits of Scrum after a disastrous, piecemeal introduction of Scrum.  Be sure to read his candid assessment of how he failed.
• Effective Practices and Federal Challenges in Applying Agile Methods: the Government Accountability Office (GAO) provides a review of the challenges and success factors for Agile projects within the federal government based on their investigation of four successful programs.
• Adobe Premiere Pro Scrum Adoption: Adobe explains how they used Scrum to successfully coordinate the actions of a distributed Scrum Team within an environment composed of non-Scrum Teams.
• Mayden’s Transformation from Waterfall to Scrum: the Scrum Alliance offers this short case study of how a young, UK provider of cloud-based software used Scrum to break away from old habits to improve code quality and customer service.
• Rolling Out Agile in a Large Enterprise: this case study from 2006 discusses how Yahoo! used Scrum to support over 100 software teams.  Provides interesting metrics on how to evaluate and monitor Scrum Teams in a large enterprise.
• Borland’s Agile Journey – A Case Study in Enterprise Transformation: in this 2009 case study, the Senior Vice President of R&D at Borland talks about benefits they received and the key lessons learned in their three-year journey to apply Scrum to their business.
• Business Analysts and Scrum Projects: short description of how a business analyst’s role changes when they are embedded full time on a cross-functional Scrum Team.
• My Experience as QA in Scrum: detailed experience report of the day-to-day activities of a tester on a Scrum Team.
• Moving Back to Scrum and Scaling to Scrum of Scrum in Less Than a Year: this fifteen-minute video presentation explains how one Brazilian company struggled with Scrum, failed and then eventually succeeded.
• Introducing Scrum in Companies in Norway: Nordic researchers provide this case study of the factors which point to a successful adoption of Scrum and which factors lead to failure and frustration.
• A CIO’s Playbook for Adopting the Scrum Method of Achieving Software Agility: this 28-page whitepaper from 2005 describes step-by-step how Ken Schwaber envisioned a Scrum business transformation might unfold.

HELPFUL WEBSITES & TOOLS

• Agility Health
• Leadership Circle