Leadership Resources & References

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General Leadership Books

Quiet Leadership: Six Steps to Transforming Performance at Work - David Rock [AMAZON]

The Leader’s Guide to Radical Management: Reinventing the Workplace for the 21st Century - Steve Denning [AMAZON]

Why Motivating People Doesn’t Work . . . and What Does: The New Science of Leading, Energizing, and Engaging - Susan Fowler [AMAZON]

Hiring [TOP]

Interview Humiliation http://deliberate-software.com/on-defeat/

The Problem with Using Personality Tests for Hiring https://hbr.org/2014/08/the-problem-with-using-personality-tests-for-hiring

Managers in Scrum [TOP]

Functional Managers in Agile http://www.agileforall.com/2012/11/functional-managers-in-agile/

Leading vs. Managing in a Scrum Environment http://www.scruminc.com/leading-versus-managing-in-scrum-2/

Linking Agile to HR http://leadinganswers.typepad.com/leading_answers/2012/10/linking-agile-to-hr-theory.html

Reinventing Management – Steve Denning http://stevedenning.typepad.com/

Role of Manager https://less.works/less/management/role-of-manager.html

Scaling The Happiness Index https://7oas7er.wordpress.com/2014/01/16/scaling-the-happiness-index/

The Role of The Manager in Scrum http://www.infoq.com/articles/scrum-management-deemer

What do Middle Managers Do in Agile http://www.estherderby.com/2012/04/what-do-middle-managers-do.html

What Makes Joy,Inc Work? Disciplined Project Management https://www.infoq.com/articles/joyinc-project-management

Where Does a Project Manager Fit in Scrum – Part 1 http://www.agilecoachjournal.com/index.php/2011-02-06/scrum/where-does-a-project-manager-fit-in-scrum-part-2/

Where Does a Project Manager Fit in Scrum – Part 1 – includes an exercise you can play with your team http://www.agilecoachjournal.com/index.php/2011-01-30/scrum/where-does-a-project-manager-fit-in-scrum-part-1/

Managers in Scrum Books

The Leader’s Guide to Radical Management: Reinventing the Workplace for the 21st Century - Stephen Denning [AMAZON]

Metrics and Measurement [TOP]

30+ Metrics for Agile Software Development Teams https://www.frontrowagile.com/blog/posts/69-30-metrics-for-agile-software-development-teams

Addressing Problems Caused by AMMs http://www.keystepstosuccess.com/2017/10/addressing-problems-caused-by-amms/

Agile Metrics http://dhondtsayitsagile.blogspot.ca/2012/10/agile-metrics.html

Agile Metrics: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly https://dzone.com/articles/agile-metricsthe-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly

Agile Teams: Don’t use happiness metrics, measure Team Morale http://blog.agilistic.nl/agile-teams-dont-use-happiness-metrics-measure-team-morale/

An Appropriate Use of Metrics http://martinfowler.com/articles/useOfMetrics.html

Be careful how often you measure http://thinkpurpose.com/2014/05/21/why-scorecards-are-as-dangerous-as-michael-jacksons-personal-doctor/

Bell Curves and Measuring Badly https://agilepainrelief.com/notesfromatooluser/2016/03/bell-curves-and-measuring-badly.html

Beyond the Happy Bubble https://sites.google.com/a/scrumplop.org/published-patterns/product-organization-pattern-language/pop-the-happy-bubble

Cycle Time and Lead Time https://agilecomplexificationinverter.blogspot.ca/2016/12/cycle-time-and-lead-time.html

Data driven coaching – Agile 2016 http://www.slideshare.net/FocusedObjective/data-driven-coaching-agile-2016-troy-magennis

Data driven coaching – Agile 2016 slideshare https://www.slideshare.net/FocusedObjective/data-driven-coaching-agile-2016-troy-magennis

Entangled – Solving the Hairy Problem of Team Dependencies https://github.com/FocusedObjective/FocusedObjective.Resources/blob/master/Presentations/Agile%202015%20-%20Entangled%20-%20Solving%20the%20Hairy%20Problem%20of%20Team%20Dependencies%20(Troy%20Magennis).pdf [PDF warning!]

Happiness Metric – The Wave of the Future https://www.scruminc.com/happiness-metric-wave-of-future-2/

How Accountants Kill Innovation http://timkastelle.org/blog/2010/03/how-accountants-kill-innovation

I’m Sorry, But Those Are Vanity Metrics http://firstround.com/review/im-sorry-but-those-are-vanity-metrics/

If You Can’t Measure It, You’d Better Manage It http://www.mintzberg.org/blog/measure-it-manage-it

Linear Thinking in a Nonlinear World https://hbr.org/2017/05/linear-thinking-in-a-nonlinear-world

Making sense of organization impediments https://www.slideshare.net/kenpower/what-prevents-work-from-flowing-smoothly-making-sense-of-organization-impediments

Measurement for Scrum – What are Appropriate Measures? https://agilepainrelief.com/notesfromatooluser/2016/09/measurement-for-scrum-what-are-appropriate-measures.html

Measuring and evaluating Scrum in complex environments https://en.innova1st.com/2017/05/05/midiendo-y-evaluando-scrum-en-entornos-complejos-incluye-archivos-de-ejemplo-y-para-que-utilices/

Measuring Happiness on the Team: What is Crisp? http://blog.crisp.se/2010/05/08/henrikkniberg/what-is-crisp

Measuring Team Performance http://www.innolution.com/blog/team-performance-measures

Metrics don’t have to be evil http://focusedobjective.com/metrics-dont-evil/

Metrics don’t have to be evil – 5 traps and tips http://focusedobjective.com/metrics-dont-evil/

Metrics for Agile http://www.estherderby.com/2011/10/metrics-for-agile.html

Metrics for Understanding Flow https://www.researchgate.net/publication/326347254_Metrics_for_Understanding_Flow

Monte Python Simulation: Misunderstanding Monte Carlo https://dannorth.net/2018/09/04/monte-python-simulation/

Patrick Kau – on the Appropriate Use of Metrics http://martinfowler.com/articles/useOfMetrics.html

Red, Yellow, Green or RYG/RAG Reports: How They Hide the Truth https://agilepainrelief.com/notesfromatooluser/2015/10/red-yellow-green-or-rygrag-reports-how-they-hide-the-truth.html

Scrumming the Scrum (the use of happiness as a Metric in Retrospectives) https://sites.google.com/a/scrumplop.org/published-patterns/retrospective-pattern-language/scrumming-the-scrum

Simplicity https://agilepainrelief.com/notesfromatooluser/2016/03/simplicity.html

Team Metrics – Case Study https://agilecomplexificationinverter.blogspot.ca/2016/06/team-metrics-case-study.html

The Agile Acid Test http://testobsessed.com/2010/12/the-agile-acid-test/

The Happiness metric and a few others http://blog.crisp.se/2011/10/19/anderslaestadius/the-happiness-metric-and-a-few-others

The One Formula for Metrics https://ideas.riverglide.com/the-one-formula-for-metrics-f413566eaa23

Vanity Metrics vs. Actionable Metrics http://fourhourworkweek.com/2009/05/19/vanity-metrics-vs-actionable-metrics/

Why Vanity Metrics are Dangerous: Holding a Mirror Up to Your Measures of Success http://leankit.com/blog/2016/03/why-vanity-metrics-are-dangerous-holding-a-mirror-up-to-your-measures-of-success/

Forecasting Tools

Focused Objective – Collection of Forecasting Tools https://github.com/FocusedObjective/FocusedObjective.Resources/tree/master/Spreadsheets

Forecasting Using Data – Common Questions Answered https://github.com/FocusedObjective/FocusedObjective.Resources/blob/master/Common%20Questions%20Anwered.pdf [PDF warning!]

Ongoing Organizational Improvement [TOP]

The Gravity of $70K: What Actually Happened at Gravity Payments https://gravitypayments.com/thegravityof70k/#infographic-1

Improvement Stories

Improve Measurably with Improvement Stories https://www.innovel.net/improve-measurably-with-improvement-stories/

The Gravity of $70K: What Actually Happened at Gravity Payments https://gravitypayments.com/thegravityof70k/#infographic-1

Open Offices [TOP]

6 Psych Tips For Creating The Ideal Workspace http://www.spring.org.uk/2013/09/6-psych-tips-for-creating-the-ideal-workspace.php

Google got it wrong. The open-office trend is destroying the workplace. https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/12/30/google-got-it-wrong-the-open-office-trend-is-destroying-the-workplace/

Privacy and Communication in an Open-Plan Office A Case Study https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rstb.2017.0239

The impact of the ‘open’ workspace on human collaboration https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rstb.2017.0239

The Open-Office Trap http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/the-open-office-trap

The supposed benefits of open-plan offices do not outweigh the costs http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.ca/2013/08/the-supposed-benefits-of-open-plan.html

Why The Open Office Makes You Distracted, Exhausted, And Insecure http://www.businessinsider.com/why-the-open-office-makes-you-distracted-exhausted-and-insecure-2014-4

Workspace satisfaction: The privacy-communication trade-off in open-plan offices http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272494413000340

Pay for Performance [TOP]

Bogus Bonuses and C.E.O. Salaries – Dan Ariely http://danariely.com/2012/10/06/3668/

Observations From a Tipless Restaurant, Part 3: How Tipping Promotes Bad Service https://content.jayporter.com/dispatches/2013/08/05/observations-from-a-tipless-restaurant-part-3/

Prosocial Bonuses

Prosocial Bonuses Increase Employee Satisfaction and Team Performance http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=44800

The Best Bonus Is One You Can’t Spend on Yourself http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2013-05-15/the-best-bonus-is-one-you-cant-spend-on-yourself

Performance Management [TOP]

A Performance Question http://randsinrepose.com/archives/a-performance-question/

A Quick Rundown on Performance Reviews http://agileotter.blogspot.ca/2015/07/a-quick-rundown-on-performance.html

Accenture will get rid of annual performance reviews and rankings http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/on-leadership/wp/2015/07/21/in-big-move-accenture-will-get-rid-of-annual-performance-reviews-and-rankings/

An Alternative to Performance Reviews http://blog.protegra.com/2013/01/04/a-systems-thinking-alternative-to-performance-reviews/

Case Study: What Really Happens When Companies Remove Ratings https://neuroleadership.com/portfolio-items/pm-report-removing-ratings/

It’s Time to Kill the Performance Review https://www.thecut.com/2015/06/time-to-revamp-the-performance-review.html

Microsoft Drops Stack Ranking http://microsoft-news.com/microsoft-abolishes-stack-ranking-system-employee-evaluation-process/

Personal development at Spotify https://labs.spotify.com/2013/11/21/personal-development-at-spotify/

Quotes from “Get Rid of the Performance Review!” http://www.keystepstosuccess.com/2016/02/quotes-from-get-rid-of-the-performance-review-how-companies-can-stop-intimidating-start-managing-and-focus-on-what-really-matters-by-culbert-samuel-a-laurence-rout/

Stack Ranking and the damage done at Microsoft http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2012/07/microsoft-downfall-emails-steve-ballmer

The corporate kabuki of performance reviews http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-leadership/the-corporate-kabuki-of-performance-reviews/2013/02/14/59b60e86-7624-11e2-aa12-e6cf1d31106b_story.html

The Truth about Performance Reviews and Other Corporate Bullsh*t https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/truth-performance-reviews-other-corporate-bullsht-liz-ryan

Theory of Constraints (TOC) http://www.tocinstitute.org/theory-of-constraints.html

What Really Happens When Companies Remove Ratings (Case Study) https://neuroleadership.com/portfolio-items/pm-report-removing-ratings/

Why GE had to kill its annual performance reviews after more than three decades https://qz.com/428813/ge-performance-review-strategy-shift/

Why More and More Companies Are Ditching Performance Ratings https://hbr.org/2015/09/why-more-and-more-companies-are-ditching-performance-ratings

Performance Management Books

The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement - Eliyahu M Goldratt, Jeff Cox, David Whitford [AMAZON]

Abolishing Performance Appraisals: Why They Backfire and What to Do Instead - Tom Coens, Mary Jenkins [AMAZON]

Reporting [TOP]

AgileEVM – Earned Value Management in Scrum Projects https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1667558/

AgileEVM: Measuring Cost Efficiency Across the Product Lifecycle https://www.infoq.com/articles/agile-evm

Tours of Agile Companies [TOP]

Marc P Summers visit to the Infusionsoft Headquarters 2013 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuheSYveeX4

Transformation and Transitions [TOP]

A culture that attracts quality candidates http://radianttiger.com/2015/04/20/a-culture-that-attracts-quality-candidates/

Agile Transformation at KPN iTV https://www.infoq.com/news/2018/02/agile-transformation-kpn-itv

How Google changed a Development Culture from avoiding Test in Development to embracing it and test automation https://mike-bland.com/2012/07/10/test-mercenaries.html

Small engineering team as a competitive advantage https://gorgias.io/blog/small-engineering-team-as-a-competitive-advantage

The Attraction of Classic Hierarchies https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/attraction-classic-hierarchies-kurt-nielsen/

The Defense Innovation Board wants to help the military recognize ‘agile BS’ https://www.fedscoop.com/defense-innovation-board-wants-help-military-recognize-agile-bs/

Three Organisational Transformation Modes https://salfreudenberg.wordpress.com/2014/03/21/three-organisational-transformation-modes/

Transformation from the top? How about engagement on the ground? http://www.mintzberg.org/blog/transformation-from-the-top-how-about-engagement-on-the-ground

What Managers Can Do To Support Agile Transformations http://www.infoq.com/articles/managers-support-agile-transformation

Why We Hate Change http://www.liquidplanner.com/blog/why-we-hate-to-change/

Transformation and Transitions Books

The Culture Game – Tools for the Agile Manager - Daniel Mezick [AMAZON]

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Leadership Resources & References

Leadership Resources & References

Budgeting and Accounting [TOP]

CSM [TOP]

Career Paths [TOP]

Community of Practice [TOP]

Culture [TOP]

Failure Modes [TOP]

Finance [TOP]

General Leadership [TOP]

Hiring [TOP]

Managers in Scrum [TOP]

Metrics and Measurement [TOP]

Ongoing Organizational Improvement [TOP]

Open Offices [TOP]

Pay for Performance [TOP]

Performance Management [TOP]

Reporting [TOP]

Tours of Agile Companies [TOP]

Transformation and Transitions [TOP]

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