Facilitation 

• Facilitation Tips for Online Meetings from Collaboration Superpowers (website)

• ‘Visual Thinking...Empowering people & organizations through visual collaboration’ by Willemien Brand (book)

Remote Working 

• The Five Levels of Remote Working and why you are probably at Level 2 by Steve Glaveski (article, 10 min read)

• Distributed Blog from Matt Mullenweg, Co-Founder of WordPress and CEO of Automattic (blog and podcast)

• Tools for Remote Working (list from Collaboration Superpowers website)

• Tips for Remote Working Teams from Equal Experts (webpage)

• Team Agreements

  • Create a Team Agreement for Your Remote Team (webpage from Collaboration Superpowers website)

  • How to Create a Remote Working Team Charter from Equal Experts (article)

• 3 Steps to Better Virtual Meetings from Harvard Business Review (article)

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Psychological Safety

• Building a Psychologically Safe Workplace TED Talk by Amy Edmondson (11 min video)

• What Google Learned from its Quest to Build the Perfect Team (NY Times article)

• Forget the Pecking Order at Work TED Talk by Margaret Heffernan (aka Super Chickens) (15 min video)

• Beyond Measure...the big impact of small changes by Margaret Heffernan (short book)

 

Agile Mindset and Values

• What exactly is an Agile mindset by Susan McIntosh (2 pages)

• Agile Values explained (2 min video)

• Collaboration at work -TED Talk,  Yves Morieux: How too many rules at work keep you from getting things done (16 min video)

• The Backwards Brain Bicycle...this is a great example of why it is so hard for people to change their behaviours, even when they want to change and understand what they need to do to make the change (8 min video)

Agile Leadership

• Brave New Work by Aaron Dignan (5 min video, 50 min video with 20 min Q&A, book)

• 8 Lessons on Building a Company that People Enjoy Working For by  Patty McCord, former HR leader at Netflix (5 min video)

• David Marquet

  • Turn the Ship Around!(book)

  • What is Leadership? Intent Based Leadership (9 min video)

  • Leadership Nudges (3 min videos on various leadership topics)

  • Anything on David Marquet’s website is great too!

• Simon Sinek

  • Leaders eat last by Simon Sinek (45 min video; book)

  • Start with the Why (TED Talk version 18 min video, book)

• Dan Pink

  • Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us (11 min video, book)

  • The puzzle of motivation TED Talk (18 min video)

• Sooner, Safer, Happier...Antipatterns and Patterns for Business Agility by Jonathan Smart (3 min videos by chapter, book)

 

Agile - General

• Agile in a Nutshell by Henrik Kniberg (1 page infographic)

• Agile Glossary by Ken Rubin (website)

• Best Agile Articles by Michael de la Maza PhD and Cherie Silas MCC

  • Best Agile Articles of 2020, 2019, 2018 and 2017 (free PDF downloads)

  • ‘Best Agile Articles’ books for 2020, 2019, 2018 and 2017 from Amazon
     

Agile & Learning Culture

• Growth Mindset...above the line thinking (3 min video)

• ‘Reinventing Organizations’ by Frederik Laloux (book)

• Learning Culture… ‘An Everyone Culture...Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization’ by Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey (book)

• Spotify Engineering Culture  (Part 1: 14 mins video and Part 2: 14 mins video)

• Scaling Agile @ Spotify (aka Spotify Model)…Tribes, Squads, Guilds, Chapters and MORE! (14 page article with lots of pictures)

 

Agile Roles - Product Ownership

• Product Ownership in a Nutshell by Henrik Kniberg (15 min video)​
   

MVP (Minimal Viable Product)

• What exactly is Minimum Viable Product? Eric Reis  (3 min video) 

• The Lean Startup by Eric Ries (1 hour video and book)

• The MVP is Dead. Long live the RAT, by Rik Higham (2 page article)
   

Scrum​

• Scrum Training Series, these are ~15 minute animated videos explaining various aspects of Scrum, including the Scrum roles and ceremonies. https://scrumtrainingseries.com/ 

• Scrum Guide, this is the official guide on Scrum (12 pages)
   

Kanban

• What is Kanban? by David J. Anderson (3 pages)

• What is Kanban? By Stellar Velocity (4 min video)

• Introduction to Personal Kanban with Jim Benson (6 min video or book)

 

OKRs (Objectives and Key Results)

• What is an OKR? By Felipe Castro (45 slides)

• The Beginners Guide to OKRs by Felipe Castro (50 page PDF)

• Radical Focus by Christina Wodtke (150 page book)

• Measure What Matters by John Doer (book)

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Squad Self Selection

• Our Experience with Squad Self-Selection (Spoiler Alert: DO IT!!!) by Jody Weir (8 min read)

• Squad Self-Selection Resources from Nomad8 (website)