The agile Manager’s online resources

This page is a motley collection of online resources of interest to an agile manager, as we find them. We will try to impose some order but there are a lot.

You can find resources specific to our book the agile Manager on their own page here.
In the unlikely event that you still read books there is a reading list here.
On this page:

Links referenced in the book
Links about management
Links about humanity
Links about systems
Links about agility

Links referenced in the book

• Future Work Skills 2020, Institute for the Future, 2011
  cdn.theatlantic.com/static/front/docs/sponsored/ph…
• Solutions IQ. www.solutionsiq.com/capabilities/unlock-business-a…
• The Path to “Agile” Policymaking, Arjun Bisen, www.innovations.harvard.edu/blog/path-agile-policy…
• hbr.org/2018/10/the-role-of-a-manager-has-to-chang…
• www.theguardian.com\business/2006/dec/03/economicpolicy.comment
• www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2013/06/26/the-o…
• The cult of compulsory happiness is ruining our workplaces, André Spicer www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/dec/12/cult…
• flowchainsensei.wordpress.com/2015/10/20/rightshif…
• For more on queuing theory, see less.works/less/principles/queueing_theory.html
• noop.nl/2010/09/simplicity-a-new-model.html
• storyconnect.nl/hexagon-sensemaking-canvas-2/?lang…
• www.storycoloredglasses.com/p/confluence-sensemaki…
• See the work of Sidney Dekker on Safety Differently www.safetydifferently.com
• How Complex Systems Fail, Dr R Cook, 1998 web.mit.edu/2.75/resources/random/How%20Complex%20…
• servant leader www.greenleaf.org
• Situational Leadership www.situational.com
• Wirearchy: sketches for the future of work, Jon Husband wirearchy.com/what-is-wirearchy/
• www.betacodex.org
• Tipu Ake ki te Ora Lifecycle www.tipuake.org.nz
• How intermittent breaks in interaction improve collective intelligence, E. Bernstein, J. Shore, and D. Lazer, PNAS August 28, 2018 www.pnas.org/content/115/35/8734.short?rss=1
• The Wetware Crisis: the Thermocline of Truth, Bruce Webster, brucefwebster.com/2008/04/15/the-wetware-crisis-th…
• bbrt.org/the-beyond-budgeting-principles
• SIAM Body of Knowledge www.scopism.com/free-downloads/
• VeriSM, verism.global/
• Psychological safety. Harvard said it www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=2959. Google said it rework.withgoogle.com/blog/five-keys-to-a-successf…
• The Digital Practitioner Body of Knowledge™ publications.opengroup.org/s185
• weblog.tetradian.com/2013/01/28/over-certainties-o…
• The Five Ways to Wellbeing at Work Toolkit www.mentalhealth.org.nz
• edgeperspectives.typepad.com/edge_perspectives/201…
• social-biz.org/2013/04/15/pull-systems-are-antifra…
• Our Standard+Case www.basicsm.com/standard-case
• Please don’t waste our time with the idea that these new technologies will supplant humans: see www.itskeptic.org/content/automation-best
• Max Warburton, Bernstein www.businessinsider.com.au/tesla-robots-are-killin…
• Scaling Agile:
  • Agile at Scale, D. Rigby, J. Sutherland, A. Noble hbr.org/2018/05/agile-at-scale
  • blog.gardeviance.org/2015/03/on-pioneers-settlers-…
  • www.fast-agile.com/
  • Scaled Agile Framework and SAFe are registered trademarks of Scaled Agile, Inc
  • disciplinedagileconsortium.org/
  • less.works/
  • www.scrumatscale.com/
  • www.scrum.org/resources/scaling-scrum

  OpenSpace Origin: www.openspaceworld.com/

• OpenSpace Resources: openspaceworld.org
• leancoffee.org/
• www.theworldcafe.com/
• www.pechakucha.com/
• humanisticsystems.com/2014/07/17/facing-up-to-comm…
• Harold Jarche’s “seek> sense> share” jarche.com/
• Our old Tipu improvement methodology www.basicsm.com/tipu
• ADKAR org change method www.prosci.com/adkar
• AgendaShift org change method www.agendashift.com/
• OpenSpace Beta org change method www.openspacebeta.com/
• New Zealand earthquake www.nzta.govt.nz/projects/kaikoura-earthquake-resp…
• Our flow simulation game www.twohills.co.nz/diggers
• Rebel Network. transformingtogether.blog.gov.uk/2019/03/21/creati…
• Kotters 8 steps www.kotterinc.com/8-steps-process-for-leading-chan…
• The Core Protocols liveingreatness.com/core-protocols/
• Clean Language en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_Language
• the Open Leadership Network openleadershipnetwork.com/ Note: while we admire the content created by the OLN, we do not endorse any of their political statements and have ended all association with the group
• Scrum@Scale www.scrumatscale.com
• Cynefin complexity sense-making cognitive-edge.com
• How Complex Systems Fail web.mit.edu/2.75/resources/random/How%20Complex%20…
• Wardley Maps medium.com/wardleymaps
• Lean Startup theleanstartup.com
• The Agile Manifesto agilemanifesto.org/
• Modern Agile modernagile.org/
• Heart of Agile heartofagile.com
• Agile Fluency www.agilefluency.org
• 5 Stages in the Design Thinking Process, R Dam and T Siang, Interactive Design Foundation www.interaction-design.org/literature/article/5-st…
• Universal Service Management Body of Knowledge www.usmbok.com/

Links about management

• Case studies and many other links on our page
• Strategic Doing and some great links to new ways of thinking
• More light-hearted, Take the Bureaucratic Mass Index (BMI) survey  (Humanocracy)

Links about humanity

• Spiral Dynamics psychology.wikia.org/wiki/Spiral_Dynamics
• Culture 1 of 7: the subject, Dave Snowden cognitive-edge.com/blog/culture-the-subject/ First of a series cognitive-edge.com/blog/category/culture/

Links about systems

• Why being smart is not enough — the social skills and structures of tackling complexity, Mieke van der Bijl medium.com/school-of-system-change/why-being-smart…
• Managing complexity and chaos in times of crisis, Snowden ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/publication/managing-complexit…
• We like these links about four of the five focusing steps of Theory of Constraints
  1.  https://futurestateengineering.com/theory-of-constraints-step-1-identifying-the-constraint/
  2. futurestateengineering.com/exploiting-the-constrai…
  3.  https://futurestateengineering.com/subordinating-to-the-constraint/
  4. futurestateengineering.com/elevating-the-constrain…

Links about agility

• ‘Complex Acts of Knowing – Paradox and Descriptive Self Awareness’, Dave Snowden, Journal of Knowledge Management, Special Issue, July 2002. cognitive-edge.com/articles/complex-acts-of-knowin…