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Agile and Scrum are frameworks with a broad range of options but also some pretty hard guardrails . With the best of intentions, some will espouse their ideas/agenda as solid agile, but I'd recommend sticking to the core reliable sources , and look at anything outside of that circle with a critical eye to make sure they are sticking closely to the principles of Agility. To that end, here's a few reliable resources . Reliable Scrum Resources: Scrum Alliance:   www.scrumalliance.org (Mike Cohn - where the most recognized certifications (CSM, CSP, CTP, etc.) come from) Agile Manifesto:   www.agilemanifesto.org (Where it all started) Agile in a Nutshell One Pager:   http:// blog.crisp.se/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Agile-poster-2016-ver14.pdf Scrum Inc :   https://www.scruminc.com / (Jeff Sutherland co-inventor of Scrum) Version One:   https://www.versionone.com/ Rally:   https://www.ca.com/us/why-ca/about-us/acquisitions/rally-is-now-ca-techn...

If you have children (or if not, if you ever were a child ;-)), at one point in time you may have experienced a child that did not want to clean their room. One option as a parent/guardian is to educate the child on the benefits of a clean room.  Another is to offer inducements/incentives to motivate a child to clean their room.  However, in the end, without the threat of compulsion, education and inducements will only succeed some of the time with some of the people. According to the 'Rogers Innovation Adoption Curve' ( http://www.valuebasedmanagement.net/methods_rogers_innovation_adoption_curve.html ), 16% of the population will resist change strongly enough to be classified as "laggards". Laggards are defined as: "Traditional people, caring for the "old ways", are critical towards new ideas and will only accept it if the new idea has become mainstream or even tradition".    In Agile Transformation, if "laggards" are in a posit...