Best Agile Articles of 2017
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Best Agile Articles of 2017 Editors: Michael de la Maza, CEC & Cherie Silas, CEC BEST AGILE ARTICLES OF 2017 Edited By: Michael de la Maza, CEC & Cherie Silas, CEC Copyright ©2018 by Michael de la Maza All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. Cover design by Christopher Kyle Wilson The text of this book is set in Warnock Pro & Myriad Pro Book layout by THDesign, Inc. First Edition: November 2018 ii Table of Contents Foreword .................................................................................................................................................................................................Page vii Pete Behrens Lean Startup has Changed Nothing! ..................................................................................................Pages 9–13 Sonja Blignaut If you want to innovate, don’t say so ................................................................................................Pages 14–18 Melissa Boggs At the Intersection of Culture & Strategy ...................................................................................Pages 19–21 Zach Bonaker Scrum Guide Sliders ....................................................................................................................................Pages 22–26 Braz Brandt Agile in Highly Regulated Environments ....................................................................................Pages 27–30 Maxime Castera What Kids Taught Me About Being Agile...................................................................................Pages 31–33 Felipe Castro & Alexandre Freire Kawakamai Transcend the “Feature Factory” Mindset Using Modern Agile and OKR .............................................................................................................Pages 34–40 Mike Cohn Five Lessons I’m Thankful I Learned in My Agile Career ...............................................Pages 41–47 Esther Derby Change Artist Super Powers: Empathy .........................................................................................Pages 48–50 Bob Galen Agile Coaching: An Awful Truth ........................................................................................................Pages 51–55 Gene Gendel Addressing Problems, Caused by AMMS ...................................................................................Pages 56–58 You Get What you Ask For: Agile Coaches-“Centaurs” ...................................................Pages 59–63 What Should Agile Leadership Care About? ............................................................................Pages 64–65 “Who are the Judges?” Who Decides on Who is Gonna Coach? ...............................Pages 66–70 Gene Gotimer An Agile Approach to Software Architecture ..........................................................................Pages 71–75 David Hawks The User Story Needs A Remodel. Here’s Why .......................................................................Pages 76–78 Chris Hoerée Eco Leadership, A leadership approach for the ecosystems of tomorrow .....................................................................................................................Pages 79–87 Rowan Jackon British Airways: A Brilliant Example of How Cost-Cutting Increases Costs...................................................................................................Pages 88–92 Ivar Jacobson & Roly Stimson Escaping Method Prison ........................................................................................................................Pages 93–113 iii Table of Contents continued Jeremy Jerrell Becoming A Non-technical Scrum Master ...........................................................................Pages 114–118 Ron Jeffries Implications of Enterprise Focus in Scrum ..........................................................................Pages 119–132 Betsy Kaufmann Does Your Coaching Build Roadblocks Instead of Relationships? ....................................................................................................................Pages 133–135 Jason Knight Myth: Scrum Events Take Too Much Time ...........................................................................Pages 136–139 Klaus Leopold WIP Limits Must Die .............................................................................................................................Pages 140–142 John Looney Engineering a Culture of Psychological Safety ...................................................................Pages 143–149 Yi Lv Seeing the system dynamic: 1 vs. n product backlogs ...................................................Pages 150–156 Nirmaljeet Malhorta Why the idea of a scrum team is so powerful.. ....................................................................Pages 157–161 Ian Mitchell 20 Unagile Things to Avoid Saying and Some Better Alternatives ....................................................................................................................Pages 162–165 Chris Murman What Can You Do About Organizational Silence? ..........................................................Pages 166–169 Dave Nicolette Zombie Scrum ............................................................................................................................................Pages 170–176 Stephanie Ockerman 4 Ways to Coach with the Scrum Values .................................................................................Pages 177–180 Tim Ottinger Feeling Safe? .................................................................................................................................................Pages 181–183 Barry Overeem Myth 8: The Scrum Master is a Junior Agile Coach ........................................................Pages 184–190 Niels Pflaeging Change is more like adding milk to coffee .............................................................................Pages 191–196 Allison Pollard Starting an Agile Center of Excellence .....................................................................................Pages 197–199 Mary Poppendieck The Cost Center Trap .............................................................................................................................Pages 200–205 Em Campbell-Pretty Facilitating Squadification for a SAFe Agile Release Train ......................................Pages 206–212 Jane Prusakova Honest or Nice ............................................................................................................................................Pages 213–215 iv Table of Contents continued Paulo Rebelo Don’t Limit the Role of the Scrum Master .............................................................................Pages 216–221 Chelsea Robinson Empowering a new culture to emerge in organizations ..............................................Pages 222–228 Johanna Rothman Agile Approaches Require Management Cultural Change .......................................Pages 229–231 With Agile, No Warnings Needed................................................................................................Pages 232–233 Power, Management, and Harassment: It’s a Cultural Problem ............................Pages 234–237 Rafael Sabbagh The Burger House: A Tale of Systems Thinking, Bottlenecks and Cross-Functionality ...............................................................Pages 238–242 Michael Sahota Consciously Approaching Agile for Lasting High Performance ...........................Pages 243–247 Reese Schmit Stop Wasting $$$ Building So Much Crap! ...........................................................................Pages 248–252 Ken Schwaber Scrum is simple, just use it as is!! ..................................................................................................Pages 253–256 Hadyn Shaugnessy Managing Culture Risk: A Matter of FLOW ........................................................................Pages 257–262 Salma El-Shurafa Innovation: Best Practice for Product Leaders ..................................................................Pages 263–265 Cherie Silas The Power of Interlocking Roles ...................................................................................................Pages 266–269 Zuzi Sochova Scrum Transformation Journey .....................................................................................................Pages 270–272 James Sywilok The Scrum Task Board and the Self-Managing Team ...................................................Pages 273–276 Christine Thompson 3 Skills for an ACE ScrumMaster .................................................................................................Pages 277–279 Building Trust Safely at Work .........................................................................................................Pages 280–282 Scrum Chums: The Product Owner and Scrum Master Partnership................Pages 283–285 Uday Varma 8 Keys to Transforming into a High-Performance Agile Team..............................Pages 286–291 Marjan Venema Myths and Misconceptions About Trust ................................................................................Pages 292–297 Henry Ward The shadow org chart .............................................................................................................................Pages 298–305 v Table of Contents continued Tanner Wortham Am I a Good Scrum Master? 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