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

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

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/beyond-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

Excel Spreadsheet for Hyperproductive Scrum Teams http://www.scruminc.com/update-excel-spreadsheet-for/

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

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

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

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

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

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!]

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 Impact of Lean and Agile Quantified: 2014 https://www.infoq.com/presentations/agile-quantify

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!]

Metrics and Measurement Books

Software Development Metrics - Dave Nicolette [AMAZON]

Ongoing Organizational Improvement [TOP]

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

Improvement Stories

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

What is Systems Thinking Leadership? http://www.innovel.net/?p=1613

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 http://eab.sagepub.com/content/14/3/379.abstract?ijkey=a4bd32e9ad2d0a3258b9a0efe80ff2b1695e6f14&keytype2=tf_ipsecsha

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 http://jayporter.com/dispatches/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 Reviews [TOP]

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 http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2015/05/time-to-revamp-the-performance-review.html?mid=twitter-share-scienceofus

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

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 Reviews Books

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 http://www.solutionsiq.com/docs/earned-value-analysis-in-scrum-projects-wp.pdf [PDF warning!]

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

Tours of Agile Companies [TOP]

A Day In The Life At Pivotal Labs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5h-zsDXQH_8

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

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