Agile for Starters Learning Path with Blinkist
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Week 1 - Core of Agile
Purpose & Goals
Purpose
Get clarity what the topic Agile is about and why it matters to consider Agile for organisations.
Goals
Understand the Agile Manifesto and its 4 pillars of agile and 12 agile principles. Connect the Agile Manifesto insights to your organisation and derive why it matters.
Resources
- Agile (manifesto) and its 4 pillars of agile and 12 agile principles
- The Elements of Scrum - Summary of key ideas - Book by Chris Sims and Hillary Louise Johnson
- it also includes a chapter that explains the 4 agile values (chapter 3)
- also explains some adjacent concepts like user stories
Week 2 - Scrum
Purpose & Goals
Purpose
Understand the core concepts of the worlds leading Project Management approaches that incorporate Agile at its core. By learning about a concrete implementation of Agile we get from an abstract understanding to a more concrete level.
Goals
Understand Scrum - Purpose, Values, Team Setup, Events and Artifacts. Connect Scrum with insight about Agile from week 1 and derive how Scrum might be relevant in your context.
Resources
- Scrum - Summary of key ideas - Book by Jeff Sutherland
- more on the core of Scrum and by one of the founders of the method\is more connected to project management (and not as the title above to Software Development)
- the Scrum Guide
- The Scrum Fieldbook - Summary of key ideas - Book by J.J. Sutherland
Week 3 - Kanban Method
Purpose & Goals
Purpose
Understand the core concepts of the Kanban Method - a work management system and incorporates Agile and Lean.
Goals
- Understand the Kanban Method, its core principles and practices.
- Connect Kanban to Agile, Lean and DevOps.
- Discover how you can benefit from Personal Kanban to manage yourself.
Resources
- What ist Kanban? Explained for beginners
- The Phoenix Project - Summary of key ideas - Book by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford
- Links to DevOps, Theory of Constraints, Personal Kanban
- and also is nice to listen to as it is more like a story
- Agile for yourself - Personal Kanban - Summary of key ideas Book by Jim Benson and Tonianne DeMaria Barry
- short explanation of Kanban, WIP
- Retrospectives
Week 4 - Teams
Purpose & Goals
Purpose
Understand the importance of teamwork in context of Agile
Goals
- Understand cross functional teams as core unit of getting work done
- Learn about building a team by considering the 5 dysfunctions to overcome
- Wrapping up Agile for Starters
Resources
Team foundations