Here are the slides, links, books and papers I mentioned in the closing keynote of the Agile Scotland conference in December 2019, on descaling agile.
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- Parkinson’s Law - article from The Economist
- New analysis shows problematic boom in higher ed administrators by Jon Marcus, 2014
- Official Scrum Guide - current and past versions - from Mitch Lacey’s archive, including the original 13-page version
- Essential Scrum by Kenneth S. Rubin; 500 pages
- SAFe 4.5 Reference Guide by Dean Leffingwell; 815 pages
- Largest Strip the Willow dance
- Weltrekord im Schuhplattln
- Detecting Agile BS, US Department of Defense Guide version 0.4
- Systemantics by John Gall
- Revenge of the PMO, Marty Cagan
- The Heretic’s Guide to Best Practices: The Reality of Managing Complex Problems in Organisations by Paul Culmsee and Kailash Awati
- Feedback Systems by Karl Johan Aström and Richard M. Murray
- Why the FBI Can’t Build a Case Management System
- At the BBC, Agile means ‘making it up as we go along’
- Boeing Defense Space and Security Lean Agile Process
- The Economics of Software Quality by Capers Jones
- ISO Standard 20926 on function points
- Poll results from the conference session
- The most important lesson to improve software delivery, my article with some previous poll data
- How HP Transformed LaserJet FutureSmart Firmware by Gary Gruver, Mike Young and Pat Fulghum
- The Art of Business Value by Mark Schwartz
