Food for Agile Thought’s issue #198—shared with 22,473 peers—learns about the silent meeting manifesto, we appreciate a visualization of why a linear process is ill-suited to progress agile transitions, and we pick up some tricks on how to handle support issues during a Sprint without compromising the Sprint Goal.
We also broaden our understanding of the nature of the MVP, we understand the different challenges product leaders are facing, and we enjoy a new lean experiment template.
Lastly, we reflect on many managers’ bias for action even though self-organizing teams will likely solve most issues on their own.
Did you miss last week’s Food for Agile Thought’s issue #197?
🏆 The Essential Read
(via The Startup): The Silent Meeting Manifesto v1
David Gasca explains how the silent meeting works, a practice first popularized by Jeff Bezos at Amazon.
Agile & Silent Meeting
: First, do no harm.
John Yorke reflects on the bias to action at management level and its resulting collateral damage on self-organizing teams.
: How to Handle Production Support Issues in Scrum
Mark Levison suggests how to handle bugs, defects, and unforeseen usability problems of your live application during the Sprint.
(via agendashift): Visualising Agendashift: The why and how of outcome-oriented change and continuous transformation
Mike Burrows indicates why transitions fail when a linear (project) plan meets an adaptive challenge in a complex environment.
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Product & Lean
: 10 shades of MVP (or: how to develop a product without developing a product…)
Gil Bouhnick lists ten different categories of minimum viable products, from the single-feature MVP to mockups to the piecemeal MVP.
: What Do Product Leaders Do?
Rich Mironov defines four sets of challenges of ‘product leaders’ that are different from managing individual products, form nurturing the product team to organizational alignment.
: Our New Lean Experiment Template (and Why You Shouldn't Use It)
Tristan Kromer shares the latest version of the lean experiment template.
📯 Agile Leadership — A Brief Overview of Concepts and Ideas
I recently started aggregating my notes, links, and references related to agile leadership to understand better what it — in the context of an agile transition — may look like. In the end, becoming agile is not the goal of a transition; surviving as an organization is. Hence I appreciate whatever appeals to business leaders and their motivation to delve into agile ideas, frameworks, or practices.
Let’s examine some favorite ideas and concepts around agile leadership. (Please bear with me that the following text is rather bullet-point heavy to concentrate its information.)
Read more: Agile Leadership — A Brief Overview of Concepts and Ideas.
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| Oct 08–09, 2019 | Professional Scrum Master Training (PSM I; German) | Berlin | €1,499 incl. 19% VAT |
| Oct 15–16, 2019 | Professional Scrum Master Training (PSM I; German) | Hamburg | €1,499 incl. 19% VAT |
| Oct 21–22, 2019 | Professional Scrum Master Training (PSM I; English) | Frankfurt/Main | €1,499 incl. 19% VAT |
| Oct 29-30, 2019 | Professional Scrum Master Training (PSM I; English) | Berlin | €1,499 incl. 19% VAT |
| Nov 12–14, 2019 | Professional Scrum Master Training + Liberating Structures (PSM I; German) | Munich | €1,499 incl. 19% VAT |
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🗞️ Last Week’s Food for Agile Thought Edition
Read more: Food for Agile Thought #197: Agile Decision Making, Project Sabotage, Agile in 1972, Customer Centricity Fad.
