Age of Product’s Food for Thought of February 28th, 2016 covers: Cargo cult coaching, organizations w/o Steve Jobs, customer care as a litmus test for agile change, becoming ‘agile’ because of competitors, Google’s way to performing teams, motivating stakeholders to come with problems, not solutions, the true nature of MVPs and product/market fit, how to prioritize product features, shipping v0 products, essential tools (two great lists), and finally failure, risk and basic income in Silicon Valley.
Category: Our posts for February 2016
Customer Care as a Litmus Test for Innovation and Agile Change
TL; DR: Customer Care as a Litmus Test for Innovation and Agile Change
Customer care as an entity, its function, and status within a company, can act as a good litmus test for a company’s culture, its product management, and thus its potential for innovation and agile change.
If customer care is regarded solely as a cost center that needs to be outsourced, agile change is unlikely to happen in that organization.
Food for Thought #29: Pivots, Design Sprints, Scrum Master Traits, Killing Moonshots
Age of Product’s Food for Thought of February 21st, 2016 covers: Pivots — when and how to, challenges w/ changing a product, backstage of a design sprint w/ Google Ventures, how to create a 10x product, from agile projects to agile companies, traits of a great Scrum master, innovative workspaces on a budget, killing moonshots, Silicon Valley’s hang-over, survival of the fittest and Fortune Magazine’s 2016 choice of disruptive entrepreneurs.
Food for Thought #28: Art of Product, Deadlines, DevOps, Agile Patterns
Age of Product’s Food for Thought of February 14th, 2016 covers: The art of product management, how to ship product in time, lean idea validation, key drivers for SaaS success, 20 questions to get up to speed with a new Scrum team, a compact guide to DevOps and continuous delivery, how Facebook ships code more than 1,000 times a day, agile base patterns, how to foster a sense of purpose, doomicorns: how unicorns reached the tipping point, and the resetting of the startup industry.
Food for Thought #27: Product Dysfunctions, User Needs, Pivots, Scaling Scrum, JTBD
Age of Product’s Food for Thought of February 7th, 2016 covers: How to stop B2B product dysfunctions, aka the sales guys, uncovering true user needs, to pivot or not, hard lessons learned from scaling marketplaces, how to work with the jobs to be done framework, how to become a great product guy, scaling Scrum works for Ericsson Eurolab, 7 Scrum sins to avoid at all cost, today’s collaboration cult: is it killing the flow needed for knowledge work, and has the era of innovation come to an end?
