We use this page to list resources we mention at conferences, user group meetings and workshops. The latest additions are at the top. After a month or so they go into sections below ordered by topic.

We are continuously adding to our resource portal. Registering on it by taking login above is a great way to be notified, on a monthly basis (you can opt-out anytime), of when we have added new resources. 

When slides or videos are present they are listed after the name.

Topics are tagged with where they were mentioned so that you easily find those referenced by event. Recent tags are:

• The Project Manager as Strategic and Business Manager (pdf) (slightly longer version than Chicago)
• PMI Global October 2019 (PMIG)
• San Francisco PMI International Project Management Professional Development Day. (PMISFIPM)
• Implementing SAFe course Nov 29, 2019 (ISAFe)
• Agile SoCal 11/14 (AgileSoCal)
• Capital One internal Conference 11/6 (CapOne)
• PMI Silicon Valley Conference 10/22 (PMISV)

Although there is some duplication here, you might also want to look at The Most Valuable Things I’ve Discovered in 20 Years of Agile.

Books being written

Introducing FLEX – FLow for Enterprise Transformation: Going Beyond Lean and Agile. This book describes the FLEX system and how you can use it to assist your organization’s move to Lean-Agile and Flow. (PMISFIPM)

Lean-Agile at the Team: A Lean Approach To Scrum and Kanban. It shouldn’t be either Scrum or Kanban but what’s useful from both that fits your situation.

Organized by topic

Information Portal. This contains much of resources that the PMI acquired from Net Objectives.

• Agile Product Management
• Budgeting
• Leadership and Management
• Lean-Agile Adoption and Improvement
• Lean-Agile at Scale
• Miscellenous
• Scaled Learning and other Workshops
• Systems-Thinking

Agile Product Management

• Acceptance Test-Driven Development. ATDD is almost always one of the first things a company should learn when starting an adoption of Agile. (AgileSoCal, CapOne, PMISV)
  • The benefits of BDD/ATDD  (ISAFe)
  • How to Start with ATDD using BDD (ISAFe)
• Agile Product Management Online Course – Free Videos on the page. (AgileSoCal, CapOne, PMISV). In particular, watch:
  • Why Business Agility
  • Introduction to Minimum Business Increments
  • Business Capabilities and Business Offerings: A business architecture perspective (AgileSoCal)
• Minimum Business Increments. In 20 years of helping companies adopt Agile this is the most important concept we’ve used. (PMISFIPM, AgileSoCal, CapOne, ISAFe, PMISV)

Budgeting

• The 12 Beyond Budgeting principles. An established method of doing high level budgeting.

Disciplined Agile (PMIG)

Disciplined Agile for Executives: These days being competent at IT is mere table stakes at best, you need to excel at IT if you hope to become an industry leader. Today business executives must focus on disruptors, new competitors entering their market space using technologies in new ways. Becoming an agile business – an adaptive, responsive, and learning organization – is the true goal. Business agility requires true agility across all of your organization, not just software development, not just DevOps, and not just IT. Learn more at …

CUTTER BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY JOURNAL  VOL. 31, NO. 3 A Disciplined Agile Approach to Business: Because the environment in which your organization operates evolves over time, and your competitors and partners also evolve, business agility proves to be a moving target in practice.  See how your compare to your competitors …

 Introduction to Disciplined Agile: Your Disciplined Agile (DA) journey starts with an understanding of what Agile, and Disciplined Agile, really is.  View the resources on this page for an understanding of the fundamental concepts behind agile software development and Disciplined Agile. Learn more at …

 

Leadership and management

• The Guardrails for Lean-Agile transformation are a set of agreements and questions to help the organization assure it is staying on course in its transformation and to be able to make decisions at a local level that are aligned to the rest of the value stream. (CapOne, PMISV)
• Book: Art of Action: How Leaders Close the Gaps between Plans, Actions, and Results (ISAFe, PMISV). Summary available – The Art of Action..
• Book: Managing Transitions, William Bridges.  (ISAFe)

Lean-Agile adoption and improvement

• Remember the Future.  Great, easy to run game, that has you create a great adoption roadmap. (ISAFe)
• Using the Value Stream to Get to Root Cause With ‘Five-Whys’ (ISAFe)
• The Value Stream Impedance Scorecard (VSIS). This is a useful qualitative measure that can be used to reasonably predict the effectiveness of a proposed change. (AgileSoCal, CapOne, PMISV)

Lean-Agile at Scale

• FLEX (FLow for Enterprise Transformation) Net Objectives’ approach to Lean-Agile at scale. (PMISFIPM, AgileSoCal, CapOne)
• FLEX Reading List. Selective readings/watchings to understand FLEX.
• Understand your value stream. (AgileSoCal, CapOne, PMISV)
• Using the essence of SAFe at small scale. Many companies are adopting SAFe even though they are much smaller than SAFe was designed for. In addition, companies using Essential SAFe that have less than 125 people in their development group miss many concepts that they need but are only explained in higher levels of SAFe. (AgileSoCal, CapOne, PMISV)
• Understanding Your Value Stream (ISAFe)
• Value Stream Mapping (ISAFe)

Miscellaneous

The Business Case for Agility (PMISFIPM)

Scaled Learning and other workshops

Net Objectives offers a full range of process and technical training. If you are looking to take workshops that are tailored to your needs, or if you need to train many people, please contact Al Shalloway at alshall@netobjectives.com

• Truly growing into an effective Scrum Master or Agile Team Coach. Click here to download a self-paced presentation on the academy. If you are considering taking an advanced CSM class or have many Agile coaches to train, check this out. (CapOne)
• SAFe for Agile Release Trains.
• Acceptance Test-Driven Development for teams and programs including units for teaching Scrum and/or SAFe at the team.
• Net Objectives Essentials.  A cohesive approach to helping you build your own internal capabilities regarding Lean-Agile methods. From low cost online  FLow for Enterprise Transformation (the equivalent of a three-day Lean-Agile course) and online Foundations of Sustainable Design to intensive Coaching Academy: Team Level and a train the trainer program.
• Full Business, Management, Lean-Agile and Technical training. and consulting.

Systems-Thinking

• If Russ Ackoff had Given a TED Talk (12 min) (PMISFIPM)