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Agile and Lean Development Conference Resources 2014
This week I attended the annual Intel Agile and Lean Development Conference. This is the third time I have attended,¹ and IMHO, it was the best by far. The conference was better arranged, having a basic day, an advanced day, and a day of keynotes with industry experts. For the first time, Intel invited members of the community.
Throughout the conference, I took a bunch of notes. These are some of the resources mentioned in the classes and keynotes I attended.
I record them here so I can find them later. Maybe they’ll be useful for you, too.
Books
- Gemba Walks, by James P. Womack
- Management 3.0: Leading Agile Developers, Developing Agile Leaders, by Jurgen Appelo.
- The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development, by Donald G. Reinertsen
- Crossing the Chasm, by Geoffrey A. Moore
- Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
- The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization, by Peter M. Senge
- Obliquity: Why our goals are best achieved indirectly, by Kay, John
- The Innovator’s Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book That Will Change the Way You Do Business, by Clayton M. Christensen
- Megatrends: Ten New Directions Transforming Our Lives, by John Naisbitt
- Joy, Inc.: How We Built a Workplace People Love, by Richard Sheridan
Charts and Graphics
Videos

Concepts
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  Here’s the post for last year’s Agile/Lean Conference.
By
Brent Logan
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April 17, 2014
Tags:
agile, books, Intel, leadership, lean, management
Sh*t, Meet Hill
Choose: :
- A civil engineer’s curriculum; or
- Watch out! A management principle, ignored at one’s peril?
By
Brent Logan
on
February 21, 2008
Tags:
chart’toon, management
Eject! Eject! Eject!: Forty Second Boyd and the Big Picture
Forty Second Boyd and the Big Picture. Bill Whittle writes an interesting history of America’s fighter jets and why our pilots dominate the skies, of how agility, not firepower, wins. And then applies it to the Iraq War.
Hat tip: Jay Tea at Wizbang.
By
Brent Logan
on
January 3, 2008
Tags:
management, strategy, war
No laptops in meetings
Where I work, most meetings are teleconferences with the participants sitting in their cubes at their computers. The computers seem to make paying attention nearly impossible, whether it’s getting other work done, checking out the stock price, or just cruising the web. Those in the know have learned to state a person’s name before asking a question. Otherwise, the person might not be listening.
Michael Lopp at Rands In Response has the solution:
If you’re in a meeting where you have no role such that you’re tempted to stare at your laptop: stop going. If you’re running a meeting infested with laptops and, after repeated gentle reminders about your no-laptop policy, there are still laptops: remove the laptop offenders from the meeting.
Read the rest of “The Laptop Herring” for more reasons to prohibit laptops, or even better, kill the meeting.¹ I’ve forwarded the URL to my group.
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  HT: 43 Folders.
By
Brent Logan
on
September 21, 2007
Tags:
computers, laptops, management, meetings, productivity, teleconferences
Back to Work; Sabbatical is Over
Having cast off for sabbatical eight weeks ago, today was time to plug back into the docking station.
Alpha mail. Thankfully, only 500 e-mails were waiting in my inbox and most could be discarded without reading more than the subject line. After accepting a few meeting requests and placing a few phone calls to ensure the other e-mails had been handled in my absence, I was able to get my inbox down to less than ten e-mails by end of day. That’s the result of having great coverage. Thanks, guys!
Breaking rules. Waiting on my desk was a bookstore gift certificate in recognition of some work I did immediately before sabbatical. During lunch, I bought First, Break all the Rules. After all, work bought me the book; I thought I’d return the favor by getting something that just might improve my on-the-job performance. Coincidentally, this morning I completed an organizational health survey. Upon starting the book, I recognized the twelve core questions. Maybe I’m not the first to have read this book.
Wireless mouse. Going through my drawers, I discovered mouse droppings. Wait — that didn’t come out right. My top desk drawer contained shredded paper napkins and mouse poop. That’s not good; I didn’t even have food there. Not that I suspect my coworkers, but I locked my drawers before sabbatical. Fortunately, the drawer held nothing of value and now the trash can does. Welcome back! I’m tempted to try a trap.
Beat by the Street. I looked up my employer’s stock. Great — there’s a definite improvement that coincided with my departure. Don’t tell upper management…
Staying on sabbatical. As part of my sabbatical, I took a political fast. Normally a political junky, I abstained from talk radio, political blogs, and political commentary. Amazingly enough, the world continued to spin without me. I’m considering continuing the fast or at least maintaining a slim political diet. My heart will thank me, I’m sure. I’ll have more time to do the other things I enjoy. Speaking of which…
Going nowhere not so fast. After a full, fun day at work I exercised today. Just the treadmill tonight, but my board short tan’s going to look pretty funny when I swim laps again.
Yup, I’m back. Good to see you all again. :-)
By
Brent Logan
on
August 7, 2007
Tags:
animals, books, email, exercise, management, pictures, politics, sabbatical

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