Information Radiation (The walls)

• Plain stationary
• Agile Mind Map canvas (examples: bl-wt, clr)
• Parking Lot (Questions)
• Story Mapping canvas
• Product Canvas (& explanation from BMG)
• User Story creation
• DoR/DoD
• Scrum Roles RACI
• Scrum Master’s Stories
• Understanding Scrum Roles through System Modelling

Learning Objectives (LO) – Agenda

• Intro to Agile
  • Introductions (trainer, class)
  • Definition of Agile
  • History of Agile: Agile Manifesto (& its extentions)
  • Agile vs. Waterfall: comparing in multiple dimensions
  • Historic problems of  the “Iron Triangle” (e.g. Budgets)
  • Organizational Maturity Stages,  “Color-Coding”, values
  • The “Laws” of Agility
  • Agile Leadership.  Managers as Teachers
  • The “Contract” Game
  • Human Motivation: “Gap between Science and Business”
  • System Thinking
• Work Dynamics
  • WIP Management (Kanban)
  • Queuing Theory (Little’s Law)
  • Queuing System Structure
  • Batch Size Optimization
  • Consequences of Multi-Tasking (exceptions: Surge Capacity)
  • System Variability
  • Capacity Utilization & Congestion Collapse
• Scrum
  • Scrum Overview
    • Roles & Responsibilities
    • Events
    • Artifacts
  • Scrum Deep Dives
    • Sprint Cycle
    • Product Ownership
    • Backlogs: Product vs. Sprint
    • Business Value: PSPI vs. MMF
    • Story Mapping & Strategic Planning
    • Estimation: Types and Techniques
    • Metrics & Reporting

In-Class Activities

• Kahoot Scrum Quiz On-Line
• Kahoot Survey (Confidential)  /  Hard Copy
• Jokes:
  • Agile: Pig & Chicken
  • Train Ride of Software Engineer & PM
  • Project Management: The Cannibals
  • Project Management: Body Parts
  • Project Management: 3 Cats
  • “Professor – Idiot”
  • Software Engineer & Frog-Princess
• Games:
  • Component Teams vs. Feature Teams
  • The Paper Snowflake
  • The Dice Game: Velocity & Workflow
  • Multi-Tasking
  • Requirements complexity (Beautiful Meadow)
  • “RAG” Status Escalation
  • Scrum Role Modelling

Energizers

• Morning Jazz
• RSA Animate: Motivation, by Daniel Pink
• Inno-Versity Presents: “Greatness” by David Marquet
• Gary Hamel on the Future of Management, G. Hamel
• The “Contract Game” (22-44min), by Craig Larman
• Agile Product Ownership in a Nutshell, by Henrik Kniberg
• Nordsrom Innovation Lab
• How Misconceptions About the Scrum Product Owner Role Harm Your Organization and What To Do About It, by Michael James (MJ)
• Pentagon Wars – Bradley Fighting Vehicle Evolution
• Avengers: Endgame – Official Parody Trailer by @Jazephua (PO parody)
• Daily Standup from Hell, by Philippe Kruchten
• Let’s Play TDD #1: The “No Rambling” Edit, by James Shore
• Agile Answers #7, by Dominik Maximini (where Architecture belongs)
• ABC Nightline – IDEO Shopping Cart. –How Teams innovate
• The Wrong way to do Agile: Retrospectives
• A Conference Call in Real Life
• John Kotter – Resistance to Change
• I have people’s skills
• Vanguard – Targets
• Coordination Chaos
• The Expert (Short Comedy Sketch)
• I Need Agile Methodology (adult language)
• Steve Blank Getting The MVP Right
• Mental Model (Buffalo & Crocodile)
• Deming’s Red Bead Experiment
• Ian Bradbury – Deming 101 – Getting a Systems View
• Drug Prices/PBMs
• The Marshmallow Test
• Lucy’s Famous Chocolate Scene
• The ScrumMaster – How to develop a team
• The Benefits of Rolling Forecasting Instead of Annual Budgeting
• Rolling Forecasts v Budgets – Let it Roll
• The Death of Agile, by Allen Holub
• High Moon Studios: A Portrait – Scrum
• The Return of the Waterfall, by Kent Beck
• Institution vs. Collaboration – by Clay Shirky on TED Talk
• Young Steve Jobs on how to hire, manage, and lead people – (2 min 15 sec – must watch)
• Design Thinking:  SAP AppHaus Korea: Our Way of Working
• Design Thinking:  ABC Nightline – IDEO Shopping Cart
• Library from Mishkin Berteig
• Library from Tomek Wykowski (fun,  serious)