Notes

Preface

1. Sanjiv Augustine and Roland Cuellar, “The Lean Agile-PMO: Using Lean Thinking to Accelerate Agile Project Delivery,” Cutter Consortium 7, no. 10 (September 30, 2006), https://www.cutter.com/article/lean-agile-pmo-using-lean-thinking-accelerate-agile-project-delivery-425491.

Chapter 1

1. Robert Klingler and Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, “PPP Loan Statistics through June 6, 2020,” JD Supra, June 9, 2020, https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/ppp-loan-statistics-through-june-6-2020-45420/.

2. Innosight, “2018 Corporate Longevity Forecast: Creative Destruction Is Accelerating,” 2018, https://www.innosight.com/insight/creative-destruction/.

3. Melvin Conway, “Conway’s Law,” accessed September 15, 2020, https://www.melconway.com/Home/Conways_Law.html.

4. Behnam Tabrizi, “The Key to Change Is Middle Management,” Harvard Business Review, November 5, 2014, https://hbr.org/2014/10/the-key-to-change-is-middle-management.

5. Mark Lines and Scott W. Ambler, Introduction to Disciplined Agile Delivery: A Small Agile Team’s Journey from Scrum to DevOps (Newtown Square, PA: Project Management Institute, 2020).

6. Charles Kennedy and Sanjiv Augustine, “Sparking End-to-End Agility,” presentation at Agile + DevOps West, Techwell, Las Vegas, NV, 2019, https://www.stickyminds.com/sites/default/files/presentation/file/2019/A17%20-%20AugustineKennedy.pdf.

Chapter 2

1. Miriam Berger and Adam Taylor, “When It Comes to Coronavirus Response, Superpowers May Need to Study Smaller Nations,” Washington Post, May 18, 2020, https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/05/16/when-it-comes-coronavirus-response-superpowers-may-need-study-smaller-nations/.

2. The Agile Alliance, “Manifesto for Agile Software Development,” https://agilemanifesto.org/.

3. Department of Homeland Security, Agile Development and Delivery for Information Technology Instruction Manual 102-02-004-01, July 15 (Washington, DC, 2016).

Chapter 3

1. “Is There a Limit to How Many Friends We Can Have?,” NPR, January 13, 2017, https://www.npr.org/2017/01/13/509358157/is-there-a-limit-to-how-many-friends-we-can-have.

2. Melvin Conway, “Conway’s Law,” accessed September 15, 2020, https://www.melconway.com/Home/Conways_Law.html.

3. Valerie Bolden-Barrett, “Job Autonomy Directly Correlates with Employee Happiness,” HR Dive, April 26, 2017, https://www.hrdive.com/news/job-autonomy-directly-correlates-with-employee-happiness/441263/.

4. Kent Beck (@KentBeck), “Autonomy without Accountability Is Just Vacation,” Twitter, April 10, 2017, 8:37 a.m., https://twitter.com/kentbeck/status/851459129830850561?lang=en.

5. Stanley A. McChrystal, Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World (New York: Portfolio/Penguin, 2015).

Chapter 4

1. Jeremy Hope, “Use a Rolling Forecast to Spot Trends,” HBS Working Knowledge, Harvard Business School, March 13, 2006, https://hbswk.hbs.edu/archive/use-a-rolling-forecast-to-spot-trends.

2. Lars Mieritz, “Survey Shows Why Projects Fail,” June 1, 2012, https://www.gartner.com/en/documents/2034616.

3. Thomas Macaulay, “How CIOs Are Using Agile Methodology,” CIO, April 9, 2019, https://www.cio.com/article/3521357/how-uk-cios-are-using-agile-project-management.html.

4. Jeffrey B. Liebman and Neale Mahoney, “Do Expiring Budgets Lead to Wasteful Year-End Spending? Evidence from Federal Procurement,” American Economic Review 107, no. 11 (2017): 3510–3549, https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.20131296.

5. Bent Flyvbjerg and Alexander Budzier, “Why Your IT Project May Be Riskier Than You Think,” Harvard Business Review, August 1, 2014, https://hbr.org/2011/09/why-your-it-project-may-be-riskier-than-you-think.

6. James A. Highsmith, Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products (Boston, MA: Addison-Wesley, 2004).

7. Jim Highsmith, “Beyond Scope, Schedule, and Cost: Measuring Agile Performance,” Cutter Blog, August 10, 2009, https://blog.cutter.com/2009/08/10/beyond-scope-schedule-and-cost-measuring-agile-performance/.

8. Jeff Sutherland, “On Fighter Pilots and Product Owners,” Scrum Inc., 2012, https://www.scruminc.com/on-fighter-pilots-and-product-owners/.

9. Mark Bonchek and Chris Fussell, “Decision Making, Top Gun Style,” Harvard Business Review, August 7, 2014, https://hbr.org/2013/09/decision-making-top-gun-style.

10. Dwight D. Eisenhower, “Remarks at the National Defense Executive Reserve Conference” (speech, Washington, DC, November 14, 1957), American Presidency Project, https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/remarks-the-national-defense-executive-reserve-conference.

11. Mike Cohn, Agile Estimating and Planning (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall PTR, 2006).

12. Gabrielle Coppola, “Automakers Will Need Months to Get Factories Up and Running,” Bloomberg, April 15, 2020, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-15/automakers-will-need-months-to-get-factories-back-up-and-running.

13. Giulia Pines, “The Origin Story: A Closer Look at the Man Who Invented OKRs,” What Matters, September 9, 2020, https://www.whatmatters.com/articles/the-origin-story/.

14. Simon Sinek, “How Airbnb Pivoted | Simon Sinek & Brian Chesky” YouTube video, 3:58, August 14, 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QddGZcBujow.

15. M. Denne and Jane Cleland-Huang, “The Incremental Funding Method: Data-Driven Software Development,” IEEE Software 21, no. 3 (2004): 39–47, https://doi.org/10.1109/MS.2004.1293071.

16. Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland, “The Scrum Guide™,” Scrum Guide | Scrum Guides, 2020, https://scrumguides.org/scrum-guide.html.

Chapter 5

1. Bob Payne, “Agile06—Bud Phillips, Vice President Capital One—Decisioning Services” Agile Toolkit Podcast, August 3, 2006, https://agiletoolkit.libsyn.com/agile06_bud_phillips_vice_president_capital_one_decisioning_services.

2. Herman Miller, “The Motley Fool: Financial Firm Goes Its Own Way with Unconventional Space,” Case Studies—Herman Miller, 2012, https://www.hermanmiller.com/research/categories/case-studies/the-motley-fool/.

3. Mik Kersten, Project to Product: How to Survive and Thrive in the Age of Digital Disruption with the Flow Framework (Portland, OR: IT Revolution, 2018).

Chapter 6

1. Donald G. Reinertsen, The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development (Redondo Beach, CA: Celeritas Publishing, 2009).

Chapter 7

1. Business Agility Institute, “2019 Business Agility Report: Raising the BAR,” 2nd ed. (Business Agility Institute, 2019), 4.

2. “What Is the Time Value of Money?,” Motley Fool, February 19, 2016, https://www.fool.com/knowledge-center/time-value-of-money.aspx.

Chapter 8

1. John Kotter, “Think You’re Communicating Enough? Think Again,” Forbes Magazine, February 10, 2012, https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkotter/201i/06/14/think-youre-communicating-enough-think-again/.

Chapter 9

1. Charles Kennedy and Sanjiv Augustine, “Sparking End-to-End Agility,” presentation at Agile + DevOps West, Techwell, Las Vegas, NV, 2019, https://www.stickyminds.com/sites/default/files/presentation/file/2019/A17%20-%20Au-gustineKennedy.pdf.

2. Marc Zao-Sanders, “How Timeboxing Works and Why It Will Make You More Productive,” Harvard Business Review, January 27, 2019, https://hbr.org/2018/12/how-timeboxing-works-and-why-it-will-make-you-more-productive.

3. “Takt Time,” Lean Enterprise Institute, accessed September 24, 2020, https://www.lean.org/lexicon/takt-time.

4. Ilan Mochari, “How General McChrystal’s Meeting Strategy Changed a Siloed Culture,” Inc.com, May 15, 2015, https://www.inc.com/ilan-mochari/genearl-mcchrystal-meetings.html.

5. Jason Miller, “DHS, IRS, OMB Clearing a Path to Achieve Agile Maturity,” Federal News Network, May 24, 2019, https://federalnewsnetwork.com/ask-the-cio/2019/05/dhs-irs-omb-clearing-a-path-to-achieve-agile-maturity/.

6. Liam Kane, SAFe PI Planning: A Step-By-Step Guide (Agile One Media, 2018).