A ‘cheat sheet’ for Chapter 9: Achieving Decentralized Control from The Principles of Product Development Flow by Donald Reinertsen. You can download the PDF here.

A ‘cheat sheet’ for Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters by Richard P. Rumelt. You can download the PDF here.

This chart, from Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided By Tests by Freeman and Pryce, shows ‘chaos’ vs time for two distinct project delivery methods (those which test early and those which test later).

This anecdote comes from Understanding Variation: The Key to Managing Chaos by Donald J Wheeler.

For anyone in a position of management or team leadership, the discipline of systems thinking offers some important and useful mental models.

A short ‘cheat sheet’ for a couple of frameworks I find helpful for facilitating difficult discussions and keeping participants ‘in dialogue’. It summarises Kantor’s ‘Four Player’ model and Bohm’s ‘On Dialogue’. You can download the PDF here.

I created a ‘cheat sheet’ for Helping: How to Offer, Give, and Receive Help by Edgar Schein. You can download the PDF here.

Reference slides I put together for talking about ‘lean thinking’. The emphasis is on creating a culture of continuous learning and improvement in order to be successful when transitioning to a lean methodology.

Plenty of Agile teams treat their backlogs as either a first-in-first-out (FIFO) queue, or perhaps a priority queue ordered by the expected revenue of each individual project. It turns out that neither approach is based on sound economics.

A couple of decks to support discussions around Kantor’s ‘Four Player’ model, and Lencioni’s ‘The Five Dysfunctions of a Team’. These conceptual models can be helpful tools when coaching self-organising teams, to facilitate healthy conflict and robust decision making.

Some slides for talking about self-directed work teams (SDWTs), also sometimes known as high performance teams (HPTs). They provide an overview of some of the ideas Kimball Fisher discusses in his book Leading Self-Directed Work Teams, and how they can be applied in the Agile world.