The third Liberating Structures Scrum meetup addressed the Sprint Planning, more precisely the reasons why Sprint Plannings fail—despite all the efforts put into them in advance, from the Product Backlog refinement to the Sprint Review.
Food for Agile Thought’s issue #194—shared with 22,272 peers—takes a look at # NoFrameworks; we apply couple counseling techniques to conflicts in Scrum Teams, and acknowledge that our Sprint board is not a Kanban system.
We also learn from Ocado’s portfolio wall how to improve product development; we analyze why the standard user story template has proven so popular, and we brush up our understanding of servant leadership in product management.
Lastly, we enjoy Phil Plait’s video on how science works—replace ‘science’ with ‘product,’ and you get a handy introduction into contemporary product development approaches for the skeptics in your organization.
Did you miss last week’s Food for Agile Thought’s issue #193?
Join us for an exciting Liberating Structures Scrum workshop on July 6th, 2019 in Berlin. We will be exploring several microstructures, weave them into strings and apply those to Scrum events like the Daily Scrum, the Sprint Review, or the Sprint Retrospective. The workshop language will be English.
The Liberating Structures 4 Scrum workshop will take place at the Alte Kantine Wedding on Saturday, July 6th, 2019, from 9 am to 5 pm.
Food for Agile Thought’s issue #193—shared with 22,168 peers—revisits story points and velocity; we get an idea on how to spot cargo cult agile, and we learn more about how to overcome the industrial age at the organizational level by getting rid of hierarchical structures.
We also learn five techniques on how to garden disruptive ideas in a hostile environment; we dive into mental models and biases and how they influence corporate decision making, and we brush up our knowledge on what product-market-fit is and how to achieve it.
Lastly, we listen to Gitte Klitgaard, who points at the importance of feeling safe to leave your comfort zone if you want to 10X your learning experience.
Did you miss last week’s Food for Agile Thought’s issue #192?
The Scrum Guide Reordered Download is based on about 95 percent of the text of the Scrum Guide 2020, extending its original structure by adding additional categories, for example, on self-management, commitments, or accountability.
The Scrum Guide 2020 Reordered allows you to get a first understanding of Scrum-related questions quickly. For example, it is good at relating specific topics—say “stakeholder”—with Scrum first principles such as Scrum Values, or empiricism.
Food for Agile Thought’s issue #192—shared with 22,034 peers—asks: Should your organization ditch Scrum? Moreover, we address Friday deploy freezes and how systems thinking can help to overcome agile anti-patterns.
We also reveal issues w/ Northstar metrics; we analyze innovation in the era of the learning organization, and we delve into the Boing 737 MAX 8 disaster.
Lastly, we thank Peter Gfader for speaking out loud in support of physical boards and index cards. Finally! 🙏
Did you miss last week’s Food for Agile Thought’s issue #191?
