Finally, Discovery and Delivery contains three instructional videos that breathe new life into existing agile planning practices, reframing the concepts into dogma-free and process-free tools:

Planning to Discover will teach you tools for discovering unknowns and dependencies as you learn to build a meaningful road map. Instead of focusing on estimation and process, the video teaches tools that more quickly expose more of what you do not know. The video teaches simple tools for small, independent teams while also covering the uncharted territory of large-scale, multi-team planning, or what David refers to as planning (and discovering) across teams, across time, and across story maps.

Topics covered:

• Reframing agile planning: less dogma and more value
• Where are you going and what is the first stop?
• Who do you need to create a road map?
• Balancing cost and opportunity
• Discovering unknown and dependencies
• Surfacing constraints
• Building ubiquitous product ownership
• The mechanics of planning
• Planning with distributed teams

Planning to Deliver moves on to teach delivery tools that promote learning. Instead of teaching you to follow a process like Scrum or Kanban, the video teaches you to refocus on outcomes and ensure that your processes provide learning from delivery of real value. Scrum and Kanban are compared and clarified. Whether you are new to agile methods or a vet, this video provides concrete tools for adopting and adapting iterative planning, delivery, and learning.

Topics covered:

• How much planning is really needed?
• Who are the players? Who is missing?
• From cycles (scrum) to flow (kanban)
• Iterations can be short or non-existent
• What are the meaningful shifts in thinking?
• The mechanics of iterative planning
• The mechanics of flow-based planning

Setting the Stage provides tools and ideas for creating collaborative communities. It covers ideas for creating informative and collocated spaces. This video goes deeper into ways to pragmatically connect distributed teams and programs. The video also offers ideas for making tool selections and helping people to focus on the often-unnamed changes that help teams cut an agile groove.

Topics covered:

• Creating informative workspaces
• Working with collocated teams
• Pragmatically connecting distributed teams
• Test-driven tool selection