CSP-SM Study Material
Updated: 29th May 2020
We will be building on a foundational familiarity with the material below during the interactive training. As such, being familiar with this material will accelerate and enhance your learning.
Even if you are generally familiar with a topic that an item below relates to, please read/watch this specific material on it.
Please put aside several hours for this.
CSP-SM Pre-work playlist on YouTube
For convenience, all of the videos in the list below are available as a playlist.
Full List of CSP-SM Study Material
Scrum
If you have read an older version of the Scrum Guide than the latest one (November 2017), please read the latest. Also review the changes.
Team Development
- Team Launch Facilitation (PDF) on Scrum WithStyle site based on book by Diana Larsen and Ainsley Nies.
- How to Form Teams in Large-Scale Scrum: A Story of Self-Designing Teams by Ahmad Fahmy and Craig Larman.
- Team Models – The Katzenbach Smith Praxis Framework by Michael Küsters
- Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni.
- The Five C’s of Team Accountability (Updated for 2019) by Cathy McCullough:
Lean Thinking
- The Difference Between Lean and Agile by LongDa Yin.
- Lean and the 5 essential principles of Lean by Bzhwen A Kadin
- The Lean Primer by Craig Larman and Bas Vodde
- Steve Jobs on Quality:
- Deming Library Video with Dr. Deming Discussing the 14 Points
Facilitation
- Facilitation Skills Training: Managing Difficult Meeting Personalities by Dana Brownlee – only up to 3:44
- How to Be a Virtual Meeting Hero by students in Lecturer JD Schramm’s Strategic Communication at Stanford Graduate School of Business
Coaching
- The Synergies between ORSC™ Coaching and Agile Coaching by Zuzana (Zuzi) Sochova
- Team Coaching Explained by Linda Berlot
- Establishing the Coaching Agreement by Chip McFarlane
- Designed Alliance 2 and Designed Alliance 3
Systems Thinking
- Systems thinking: a cautionary tale (cats in Borneo):
- Systems Thinking by Craig Larman and Bas Vodde:
- Systems Thinking: Causal Loop Diagrams by Dr Donna Gurule
de-Scaling
- Large-Scale Scrum Scaling Agile – Challenges of Adoption – Interview with Craig Larman – up to at least 8:13
- Feature Team Primer by Craig Larman and Bas Vodde
- How Misconceptions About the Scrum Product Owner Role Harm Your Organization and What To Do About It by Michael James
Complexity
- Complexity, Cynefin, and Agile
- A Leader’s Framework for Decision Making by David J. Snowden and Mary E. Boone
- 7 Differences between complex and complicated by Sonja Blignaut
Software Craftsmanship
- The Programmer’s Oath by (Uncle) Bob Martin
- Manifesto for Software Craftsmanship
Psychology
- SCARF Model – Influencing Others with Dr David Rock
- The Responsibility Process™
Thank you
That’s it. Thanks very much for investing in being well prepared and maximising the value that we can attain from our time together.
You will receive a calendar invite for the first session roughly a week prior containing the details required to join the video call. We look forward to seeing you in session 1.