Scrum
Martien's Sources
Martien van Steenbergen primarily uses these sources.
Slide Decks
- Xebia » Martien van Steenbergen's slide deck on Agile, Scrum and Kanban
- Xebia » Martien van Steenbergen's slide deck on Deriving User Stories from Scenarios; focusing on the needs of the user roles:
- leads to product earlier;
- makes everything more practical, usable;
- limits you te create what is needed, not per sé what is possible;
- relates to activities on the work floor;
- prevents gold plating;
Scrum Primer
- Jeff Sutherland and Ken Schwaber » The Scrum Guide—A summary of Scrum principles and practices by its creators.
Videos
- ABC News » The Deep Dive, about the IDEO Shopping Cart innovation in five days.
- RSA Animate » Dan Pink » Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us
- The Pentagon Wars » Bradley Fighting Vehicle Evolution
- The Pentagon Wars » Trailer
- David Anderson » Liquidity in Flow; and corresponding slide-deck on David Anderson » Lean Risk Management—Keynote on Options, Liquidity & Hedging Risk using Kanban Systems), over Liquiditeit, WIP, Lead Time, Cycle Time, Process Efficiency.
- Juran Institure » Quality Minute » The Jefferson Memorial about repeatedly asking “Why?” to get to the root cause of problems.
Articles
Some of these articles contain Martien's highlights.
- David Joyce » Kanban for Software Engineering
- Jesper Boeg » Priming Kanban with Martien's highlights.
- Martien van Steenbergen » Babushka of Value (PDF)—a starting point for Kanban policies (admission criteria) on columns, and include ready to build and ready to ship (a.k.a. DoR and DoD).
- Michael Sahota » An Agile Adoption and Transformation Survival Guide: Working with Organizational Culture with Martien's highlights.
Most Relevant Scrum Pearls
Scrum Roles
Scrum Social Objects
- babushka of value for product evolution, including defintion of ready and defintion of done.
Teams
Quality
Quality, a.k.a. ‘ilities’:
- See Category » Quality (includes planguage
Pareltaal
Pareltaal is the Dutch variant of Pearl Language.
- Sources on Pareltaal.nl:
- Pareltaal » Seizoenslag is a starting point for creating organizational rhythm over multiple teams and releases.
- Pareltaal » Dienstklassen
- Pareltaal » Verhalenhakker
Agile Pearls
Accelerator list
Agile architect
Agile team dōjō
Ambiguity test
Ask for the moon
Babushka of value
Beauty of constraints
Belief statement
Blocker waiting room
Consent
Cruise missile
Customer segment pivot
Daily scrum of scrums
Daily standup
Decouple stages
Definition of done
Don’t just do something, stand there!
Five whys
Focus on focus off
Foreign glimpses
Goldilocks sizer
Habit of changing habits
Improvement board
Innovation accounting
Just say no
Ka-ching a day makes product owner hurray
Kanban
Knowledge injection
Lazy finish
Learning milestone
Minimal viable product
Obeya
One service deserves another
One team
Open space
Pair working
Physical information radiators
Pivot
Product backlog
Product owner
Product portfolio
Product review meeting
Product vision
Product vision board
Ready to build
Reciprocal altruism
Refactor code
Relative estimation
Release burndown chart
Ritual dissent and assent... further results