Food for Agile Thought’s issue #134—shared with 15,621 peers—focuses on agile failure patterns in organizations, at the leadership and the operational level.
We also learn new tricks how to deal with unexpected work during a sprint, which might come handy when agile coaching by virtual reality techniques finally overcomes the Manifesto’s face-to-face mantra. Supposedly, that will happen in a few years time.
Lastly, we revisit the fate of Yahoo where having the best and brightest at the right place at the right time did not prevent Yahoo’s decline and—ultimately—demise.
Have a great week!
🏆 The Tip of the Week
(via Fast Company): The Glory That Was Yahoo
Dan Tynan chronicles the rise and fall of Yahoo—the proof that being good at product discovery does not guarantee long-term success.
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Agile Failure Patterns & Scrum
(via Medium): Strategies for Handling Unplanned Work During Sprint
Kiryl Baranoshnik suggests actionable steps how to deal with an unexpected extra workload during a sprint.
(via InfoQ): Virtual Reality Will Disrupt Agile Coaching and Training
Michael de la Maza and Elena Vassilieva believe that the Manifesto’s emphasis on face-to-face interaction is hindering innovative coaching techniques.
(via Scrum.org): Twenty Top Fails in Executive Agile Leadership
Ian Mitchell shares detailed failure patterns at the leadership level of organizations when those try to become agile.
📯 Agile Failure Patterns in Organizations 2.0
Agile failure seems to be increasingly more prominent nowadays despite all the efforts undertaken by numerous organization embarking on their journeys to become agile. The funny thing is: Who would disagree that the four core principles of the Agile Manifesto are derived from applying common sense to a challenging problem? How come then that becoming ‘agile’ seems to be failing so often?
Read more: Agile Failure Patterns in Organizations 2.0.
Product & Lean
(via InfoQ): Fixing Agile Product Ownership
Shane Hastie reports on Jeff Patton’s Agile India keynote in which he claims that agile development screws up product management.
(via Hackernoon): Killing the Product Development Assembly Line
Lisa Zhu encourages including the design and engineering people during product creation.
(via Amplitude Blog): 10 Steps To Get You Started with Behavioral Analytics
Sandhya Hegde shares a comprehensive introduction to behavioral analytics to help you better understand your customers.
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