Food for Agile Thought’s issue #174—shared with 20,147 peers—focuses on making sense of feedback with the epic new EPIQ model; we talk about a Scrum value that also applies to managers, and we reflect on the prime directive and the magic it provides.
We also address the importance of product design principles; we add systems thinking to our product management toolbox, and we learn how best exploit the opportunity of a rewrite.
Lastly, we appeal to efficiency freaks to finally realize that slowing down speeds up everything in software development.
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🏆 The Essential Read: Agile Feedback
: The EPIQ Feedback Model
Viktor Cessan distilled his observations and research on feedback into a new model.
Agile Feedback & Scrum
(via InfoQ): How to Slow Down to Go Faster Than Ever in Software Development
Lemi Orhan Ergin points at the obvious that so often is ignored: that rushing makes us neither faster, nor more productive; it increases stress and distracts focus.
: Stop Disrespecting Managers in Agile Contexts!
Bob Galen points at the tendency in some agile circles to stereotype and marginalize managers.
(via ThoughtWorks): Applying the Prime Directive beyond the retrospective
Anne Weise believes that the Prime Directive establishes the base for open, respectful communication.
Product & Lean
: Articulating Your Product Design Principles
Sachin Rekhi reflects on the importance of defining your company's core, all the way from your vision to your values, when building a product.
(via uxdesign.cc): Good thinking, good products
Sebastian Lindemann shares his notion of how systems thinking fits into the product management toolbox.
: Tips for Rewriting a Digital Product
Roman Pichler reflects on the opportunity that a rewrite poses from the product perspective.
From the Blog: Team Building Mental Models
Team building has always been a challenge, not just since the advent of agile frameworks and the resulting emphasis on self-organization, engagement, and achieving a valuable objective. This post covers four team building mental models — or concepts — that have proven useful in understanding the context of creating agile teams: from Taylorism to Tuckman to Lencioni to Dan Pink.
Read more: Team Building Mental Models.
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🗞️ Last Week’s Food for Agile Thought Edition
Read more: Food for Agile Thought #173: Agile Common Sense, Agile Team Building, Product-Oriented Engineers.