The “Agile Transition – A Hands-on Guide from the Trenches” ebook is a collection of articles I have been writing since October 2015.
Age of Product’s Food for Thought of November 27th, 2016—shared with 4,912 peers—pays tribute to an all-time favorite: scaling agile. Jeff Sutherland shares a recent presentation on the Shu Ha Ri principle, and we learn that you can build 22 teams at once. LeSS can be indeed Huge.
We then dive deep into best practices for agile retrospectives—cardinal sins to avoid, dealing with strange behavior—, and once again we refer to our velocity-is-not-a-suitable-agile-metric mantra.
Speaking of metrics: Laura Klein shares a chapter of her new book, addressing suitable product metrics, we embrace the ideas of ruthless prioritization and continuous product discovery, and learn again that diversity is good for product & profits. (By the way, can anyone explain to me why this seems to be so hard to understand?)
Last but not least, innovation and personal growth don’t seem to flourish in comfort zones. Maybe, seeking discomfort intentionally could help? Well then, read what Lyft’s director of product design has to say…
Enjoy a great Sunday!
[bctt tweet=”Food For Thought #69: Scaling Agile, LeSS Huge, Ruthless Prios, Good Metrics, Comfort Zones”]Age of Product’s Food for Thought of November 20th, 2016—shared with 4,841 peers—provides 100 agile techniques, explains why output is obsolete, and why open floor plans suck at making the creative worker productive.
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We then dive deep into how to use Machiavellian principles and happiness hormones like Dopamine for product issues. We also learn how to create shared understanding, and what “Scaling Lean” in the enterprise requires at project, program, and portfolio level.
Last but not least, we join VCs Mark Suster and Brad Feld when they teaching entrepreneurship to inmates from the California State Prison in Lancaster.
Enjoy a great Sunday!
If you want your organization to become agile, adding more whiteboards to the workspace will not suffice. You have to abandon the idea that the workspace is an assembly line for white-collar workers. You need to let go Taylorism. We are now in the age of the creative worker.
To become agile – and reap its benefits such as becoming more innovative –, you need a diversity of workspaces to support all forms of creative work: focus, collaborate, learn, and socialize. Also, you have to let your creative workers choose which space is best suited for a task.
Age of Product’s Food for Thought of November 13th, 2016—shared with 4,708 peers—focuses on the front-line of our trade: predictable agile delivery, team performance, scaling beyond the first team, and how to assess a team’s level of agility.
But we also dive deep into the benefits of storytelling, the process that leads to product/market fit, and we share the best ‘why’ questions to find breakthrough ideas.
Last but not least, we learn that embracing frustration—like Keith Jarrett once did in Cologne—can be a great source of creativity.
Enjoy a great Sunday!
Age of Product’s Food for Thought of November 6th, 2016—shared with 4,576 peers—provides 100+ tips & tricks for better retrospectives, juicier user stories, and delightful interviews.
We also have an in-depth look at the nemesis of any agile practitioner and ask: will bureaucracy prevail?
Last but not least, we learn how change actually happens, why zombie products need to be put to rest, and how to fake it: not too big, and not too small, but just right.
Imposters, enjoy a great Sunday!
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