Food for Agile Thought’s issue #200—shared with 22,519 peers—delves into fixed agile, we learn about how large organizations assess a Scrum Master’s qualification, and why ‘agile transformation’ is not ideal as a story to tell.
We also ask whether all of your organization’s members can answer the “what is your product” question consistently, we gain a better understanding how uncertainty will influence product discovery and delivery, respectively, and brush up our understanding of effective Product Backlog refinement techniques.
Lastly, we like to thank Basecamp for providing another free webbook on software project management Basecamp-style. (#NoAgile, #NoScrum, #NoWaterfall, #NoPostits, #NoSprints, #NoStandups — just saying.)
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🏆 The Essential Read
: 3 Compelling Concepts from Basecamp's Shape Up
Sachin Rekhi critiques the latest (free) Basecamp book by Ryan Singer on how to manage software projects.
Fixed Agile & Scrum
: Fixed-Everything: Agile?
Fixed Agile: Ron Jeffries shares his take on the question of whether ‘agile’ is suited to deliver on fixed scope, budget, and timeline projects.
(via Agile Alliance): How Do We Know if a Scrum Master is “Good Enough” for Our Teams?
Sarah Baca reports on how Express Scripts is trying to determine the qualification of Scrum Masters and how the approach is developing.
(via Medium): Agile transformation is a bad story and here is why
Yuri Malishenko shares his thoughts about why ‘agile transformation’ is genuinely a bad story.
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Product & Lean
: What Is Your Product?
Ellen Gottesdiener reflects on the importance of having a clear and consistent answer to this fundamental question.
(via Mind The Product): Product Discovery or Product Delivery: How do you Decide?
Philipp Krehl analyzes the fundamental difference between product discovery and delivery: the degree of uncertainty.
(via Scrum.org): Effective Refinement, Part I
Ilia Pavlichenko suggests how to split stories, take on refinements, and why developers need to communicate directly with the stakeholders.
📯 Liberating Structures 4 Scrum: Lessons from a One-Day Immersive Workshop
Why running a Liberating Structures immersive workshop? Since the beginning of 2019, the Hands-on Agile meetup in Berlin has been exploring how to apply Liberating Structures to Scrum. Beyond the basics, we have addressed the Sprint Retrospective, the Sprint Planning, the Product Backlog as well as the Daily Scrum.
So, I thought it might be a worthwhile experiment to aggregate the previous meetups into a one-day immersive workshop on Liberating Structures for Scrum, built around climate change and MegaBrain.io, a struggling startup with little runway left and in desperate need of two successful Sprints. We ran that workshop last week, and this is what we learned.
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Well, I assume that the company in question wasn’t that pleased with the publication. Too bad, was a good one.
Unfortunately it looks like Sarah Bacca’s report on the Agile Alliance website cannot be found. The link doesn’t work and a direct Google search gets to the same page, which still doesn’t work 🙁