Food for Agile Thought’s issue #125—shared with 14,043 peers—addresses the dark side of remote work, what scrum masters do not do, and why the whining about too many scrum meetings is baseless.
We then learn how to apply first principles to product management, and why knowing what not to build is essential today.
Lastly, we have a brief look at a new open source initiative: the agility assessment framework—its working title for the moment.
Have a great week!
🏆 The Tip of the Week: Remote Work
(via Hackernoon): The Stress of Remote Working
Martin De Wulf analyzes the dark side of working remotely as a software developer.
Agile & Scrum
: Myth 11: In Scrum, we spend too much time in meetings
Barry Overeem busts the ‘there are too many meetings in scrum’ myth.
: Scrum Master (SM): A Practical Approach
David Tzemach created a short checklist of a scrum master’s duties.
📯 How to Measure Agility of Organizations and Teams
Is every organization suited to become ‘agile?’ If so: How to measure agility? And if not: Wouldn’t it be great figuring that out before embarking on a futile and expensive journey?
On February 3rd, 2018, 20-plus people will join a hackathon to build an agility assessment framework based on this taxonomy. The goal of the workshop is to provide the first version of a tool that empowers agile practitioners to measure agility, be it an organization’s suitability for agile practices or a team’s progress on its path to becoming agile.
Read More: How to Measure Agility of Organizations and Teams.
Product & Lean
: The First Principles of Product Management
Brandon Chu believes that first principles can help product managers align their teams around what’s most important.
(via Free Code Camp): When writing code is a waste of time.
Jonathan Solórzano-Hamilton elaborates on the importance of knowing what not to build.
(via Hackernoon): Fixed Length Iterations vs. Continuous Flow
John Cutler compares two approaches to goal setting.
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Last Week’s Food for Agile Thought Edition
Read more: Food for Agile Thought #124: Low Engagement, Get Hired as a Scrum Master, Building Trust.