How to start with Agile and Scrum

1. Read Agile manifesto - http://agilemanifesto.org - and try to apply those principles to your context.
2. Agile is a huge change. It's changing culture and mindset. It will not be that easy, so spend some time investigating if your reasons for agile adoption are good enough.
3. Read my blogs http://soch.cz/blog (CZ) and http://agile-scrum.com or listen to my podcast #AgileWay and Jsme Agilni (CZ).
4. Try it now. It's always good time to start.
5. Neither Agile nor Scrum is a dogma. But don't give up too early. It's lot of work to make it stick.
6. Learn more. Read books and aticles from the following section or check our additional courses and workshops.

Books

Back to the Basics

• Zuzi Sochova Czech blog about Agile, Kanban, Scrum, and Management:  http://soch.cz/blog
• Zuzi's blog about Agile and Lean (EN): http://agile-scrum.com
• Scrum Guide - the official Scrum reference (read before the CSM test)
• Scrum Essentials in Under 10 Minutes - get an overview of what Scrum is 
• LeSS - Large Scaling Scrum site - how to scale Scrum
• What Is Agile? - now, in 2016
• Scrum in 13s - if you have no time than 13s watch this video
• Scrum introduction - Ken Schwaber talks about Scrum
• Henrik Kniberg - Scrum and XP from the Trenches
• Henrik Kniberg and Mattias Skarin - Kanban and Scrum - making the most of both
• ScrumAlliance e-learning
• Essential Scrum: A Practical Guide to the Most Popular Agile Process

Top 5 knih / podcastů

• Top 10 Agile Podcasts
• Five books every Agile leader should read before they start Agile transformation
• Five books every ScrumMaster should read
• Five books every Product Owner should read
• Top 5 Books You Have To Read Building Agile Organization

Books (not only) for ScrumMasters

• The Great ScrumMaster - #ScrumMasterWay
• Patrick Lencioni - The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable
• Dave Logan - Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization
• Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders
• Sir John Whitmore - Coaching For Performance: Growing People, Performance and Purpose
• Esther Derby - Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great
• Henrik Kniberg - Lean from the Trenches An example of Kanban in a large software project
• Niels Pflaeging - Organize for Complexity: How to Get Life Back Into Work to Build the High-Performance Organization
• Lyssa Adkins - Coaching Agile Teams: A Companion for ScrumMasters, Agile Coaches, and Project Managers in Transition
• Jeff Sutherland and JJ Sutherland - Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time
• Craig Larman and Bas Vodde - Large-Scale Scrum: More with LeSS

 Books (not only) for Product Owners

• Vasco Duarte - The #NoEstimates Book
• Gojko Adzic - Impact Mapping: Making a big impact with software products and projects
• Luke Hohmann - Innovation Game: Creating Breakthrough Products Through Collaborative Play

How to build good Product Backlog

• Product Backlog Example
• User Story  
• Splitting patterns 
• From vision to Product Backlog

Books (not only) for Managers

• The Agile Leader: Leveraging the Power of Influence
• Frederic Laloux - Reinventing Organizations
• Jurgen Appelo - Management 3.0: Leading Agile Developers, Developing Agile Leaders
• Jurgen Appelo - #Workout: Games, Tools & Practices to Engage People, Improve Work, and Delight Clients
• Jurgen Appelo - Managing for Happiness: Games, Tools, and Practices to Motivate Any Team
• Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box
• Eliyahu M. Goldratt - The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement

 Books (not only) for Testers

• Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory - Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams
• Janet Gregory and Lisa Crispin - More Agile Testing: Learning Journeys for the Whole Team

Other recommendations to read

• John Kotter - Our Iceberg Is Melting: Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions
• W. Timothy Gallwey - The Inner Game of Work: Focus, Learning, Pleasure, and Mobility in the Workplace
• Stephen C. Lundin - Fish! A Proven Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results
• Eliyahu M. GoldrattI - It's Not Luck

Videos

• Scrum Master - Funny movie about The Power of Scrum
• Scrum Master and motivation
• Shit Bad Scrum Masters Say
• Agile Product Ownership in a Nutshell
• What is Business Agility
• Yves Morieux: How too many rules at work keep you from getting things done
• Henrik Kniberg - Spotify Engineering Culture part 1
• Henrik Kniberg - Spotify Engineering Culture part 2
• Yves Morieux: As work gets more complex, 6 rules to simplify
• Gary Hamel: Reinventing the Technology of Human Accomplishment
• Mastering Retrospective Video
• Dan Pink: The puzzle of motivation
• Organize for Complexity - Keynote by Niels Pflaeging
• Laloux Cultural Model and Agile Adoption
• Managing for Happiness | Jurgen Appelo | TEDxLille
• Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us
• David Logan - Tribal Leadership TED talk
• L. David Marquet: "Turn the Ship Around" | Talks at Google
• Steve Jobs talks about managing people
• Lucy's Famous Chocolate Scene

Blogs

• Jurgen Appelo Blog: http://www.noop.nl/
• Vasco Duarte Blog / Software Development Today: http://softwaredevelopmenttoday.blogspot.cz/
• Yves Hanoulle Blog:  http://www.hanoulle.be/
• Henrik Kniberg / Crisp's Blog: http://blog.crisp.se/author/henrikkniberg
• Agile Alliance Blog: http://www.agilealliance.org/blog/
• Scrum Alliance Blog: http://www.scrumalliance.org/community/articles
• Martin Flower Blog about Continuous Integration, Refactoring, etc.: http://martinfowler.com/

Extended Education

I like to learn from the 'best of the best'. Here are my recommendations where to go:

• Agile Coaching Institute - All classes are 'must have' for ScrumMasters and Agile Coaches. You can also check my smaller version of AgileCoachig workshop and Agile Facilitation workshop. 
• Move it to the next level with ORSC - Organization & Relationship Systems Coaching
• Management 3.0 workshop
• Christopher Avery - The Leadership Gift

Case-studies

• LeSS (Large Scaling Scrum) Case Studies - The first LeSS adoptions were probably around 2006, since then, LeSS has been applied in many products and in many industries:
  • Ericson
  • Port of Rotterdam
  • Agfa Healthcare
  • How to Form Teams in Large-Scale Scrum? A Story of Self-Designing Teams
• DBS Bank of Singapore

How to run Agile Organization

• Company Without Structure - Odde: http://yihuo.de/articles/150
• Crisp DNA: http://dna.crisp.se

Other Scrum and Agile case-studies

• Case study: Distributed Scrum Project for Dutch Railways
• Agile Case Study - Cayen Systems
• Google: Ssh! We are adding a process…
• Video: Scrum Boosts Effectiveness at the BBC
• Agile Project Development at Intel: A Scrum Odyssey by Pat Elwer, Intel Corporation
• Agile Case-study: H&R BLOCK
• Adobe Premiere Pro Scrum Adoption - How an agile approach enabled success in a hyper-competitive landscape
• Yahoo! Rolling out Agile in a Large Enterprise
• Video: Moving Back to Scrum and Scaling to Scrum of Scrums in Less than One Year

Agile @ SAP / ERP

• Introducing flexibility, transparency and speed to SAP implementations  by Sean Robson http://genesisconsulting.com/solutions/sap
• Also, SAP itself uses Scrum: http://agileerpslides.gerardmeszaros.com/,and http://www.g3g.com/blog/continuous-integration-on-sap-using-subversion-maven-hudson-nexus-and-sonar
• If you are using ABAP then these links might present some info.
  • http://scn.sap.com/community/abap/testing-and-troubleshooting/blog/2011/11/09/new-abap-unit-and-coverage-analyzer-features-in-sap-netweaver-70-ehp3
  • http://scn.sap.com/people/christian.drumm/blog/2009/12/30/continuous-integration-using-code-inspector
  • http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/EN/14/a794422760c46ae10000000a155106/frameset.htm
  • http://scn.sap.com/community/abap/blog/2013/10/16/mocka-is-now-open-source-abap-mocking-framework

Agile @ Hardware

• https://www.backblaze.com/blog/designing-the-next-storage-pod/
• https://agilepainrelief.com/notesfromatooluser/2008/12/agile-for-hardware-and-embedded-systems.html#.V3kbFPSXfCQ
• http://scrumtrainingseries.com/Intel-case-study.pdf

Still not done with links? 

Check out Agile Pain Relief site.

Scrum and tools

Tools:

• Don't let tools to drive your agile and Scrum adoption.
• Try Excel for Backlog at first http://soch.cz/burndown_example.xlsx it is flexible.
• Or GoogleDocs if you like to be online https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ag91X5gS0piQcDhvTUw1QzlNLS11d29mbWhsMW5wZXc.

Sprint level:

• Despite on Product backlog and tools you decided to use, Sprint backlog and sprint plan don't need any tool. Use paper cards instead.
• If you are using any complex tool, never add task level there.
• For distributed teams try scrumblr.ca

Don't forget to celebrate any success.

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