Food for Agile Thought’s issue #202—shared with 22,882 peers—dives into mental models and cognitive biases that impede decision making; we browse through a case study of a failed large Scrum project in the financial industry, and we get more ideas on how to overcome agile transition antibodies of an organizational immune system.
We also address how to make product discovery less of a gamble; we consider suitable metrics for an innovation program, and we get a glimpse at ProductOps. (DevOps, DesignOps, and now ProductOps—the space is getting crowded.)
Lastly, we learn more about how “Agile” is working around the globe, and how we could learn from other cultures.
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🏆 The Essential Read: Cognitive Biases
(via Atlassian): 5 cognitive bias examples and how to avoid them in decision-making
Ben Crothers points at five critical cognitive biases that directly influence the outcome of our efforts to create great products negatively.
Agile & Scrum
(via InfoQ): 📺 Agile Around the World
Fellow PSTs Glaudia Califano and David Spinks share case studies and observations of agile adoption in various countries, discussing how different cultures could learn from each other.
(via LeSS): Attempted LeSS Huge adoption at a German insurance company
Wolfgang Steffens shares a detailed case study of a failed Scrum scaling attempt.
(via Deloitte Insights): Unleashing motivation for transformation
John Hagel shares his approach on how to motivate people to overcome the inevitable resistance to an organizational transformation.
📅 Liberating Structures Scrum Workshop — From Product Strategy to Roadmap to Sprint Review
Join us for another exciting LS Scrum workshop on September 7th, 2019, in Berlin. Following up on our first workshop, We will continue exploring LS microstructures, weave them into strings and apply those to Scrum’s soft underbelly — the product side, or figuring out what is worth building. Please note that this class is an advanced Liberating Structures Scrum workshop. The class is not suited for beginners to Liberating Structures. Also, you need to have a good understanding of both Scrum as well as product management in general. The workshop language is English.
Product & Lean
(via productboard): Hiten Shah on identifying customer needs with stories
Hiten Shah elaborates on the importance of using stories to seek out your customers’ emotional hotspots, making product discovery less of a gamble.
: What Metrics Should Innovation Programs Measure?
Tristan Kromer delves into the issue of how to measure innovation programs: from agreeing on metrics before you start to the benefits of failure to insight velocity.
: 📺 Product Operations: The Fuel for Winning Product Strategies
In this webinar replay, Melissa Perri introduces ‘Product Operations’ — the art of removing obstacles from evidence-based decision making.
From the Blog: 📯 Liberating Structures for Scrum: The Product Backlog Meetup
The fourth Liberating Structures for Scrum meetup addressed the Product Backlog, more precisely the issues with Product Backlogs that subsequently cause Sprint Plannings to fail and Scrum Teams to deliver below their capabilities; as the saying goes: garbage in, garbage out.
Learn more: Liberating Structures for Scrum: The Product Backlog Meetup.
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🗞️ Last Week’s Food for Agile Thought Edition
Read more: Food for Agile Thought #201: Software Nature, Coaching Permission, Safe Spaces, ML Product Management.