Food for Agile Thought #242: Creative Adaptability, Applied NoEstimates, Product Discovery Guide 2020, Remote Design Though Nuts

TL; DR: Creative Adaptability, Applied NoEstimates—Food for Agile Thought #242

Welcome to the 242nd edition of the Food for Agile Thought newsletter, shared with 26,503 peers. This week, we thank Keith and Fisher for insight into how Liberating Structures foster creative adaptability; we apply NoEstimates techniques and philosophy in real life, and we understand critical issues of distributed team building.

We also applaud a new product discovery guide; we learn how OKRs propelled Gmail massive success, and we tackle remote design’s most significant issues.

Lastly, we learn how to remove organizational silos following a new mental model.

Did you miss last week’s Food for Agile Thought’s issue #241?

Food for Agile Thought #242: Creative Adaptability, Applied NoEstimates, Product Discovery Guide 2020, Remote Design Though Nuts

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🏆 The Tip of the Week: Creative Adaptability

Keith McCandless and Fisher Qua (via Medium): More Magic, Less Mystery: Sustaining Creative Adaptability with Liberating Structures

Keith McCandless and Fisher Qua reflect on how to generate and maintain peak levels of creative adaptability.

Remote Agile Survey — Let’s Stop Guessing, Join the Study — Age-of-Product.com

Agile & Scrum

Len Lagestee: To Remove Organizational Silos, Start Here

Len Lagestee sketches a mental model of how to mend the broken organization.

Matt Philip: NoEstimates, Applied

Matt Philip delves into applying NoEstimates techniques and philosophy in real life.

Claire Lew (via Know Your Team | Blog): Virtual team building: How to build trust in a remote team beyond games and activities

Claire Lew analyzes the crucial moments of how to build a remote team.

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  • Part of this virtual PSM training is also the free participation in the Distributed Agile Masterclass for Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and agile coaches by appointment.
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Product & Lean

Tim Herbig: Product Discovery: ​A Practical Guide for Agile Teams (2020)

Tim Herbig wants you to build the right product for the right audience, sharing a guide on how to accomplish that task.

Felipe Castro and Itamar Gilad: How OKR Helped Gmail Reach 1 Billion Users

Felipe Castro interviews Itamar Gilad on how Google used OKR to drive Gmail’s success.

Carl Alviani (via IxDA Berlin): Remote design still has big problems. Here’s how we fix them.

Carl Alviani shares the results of an IxDA Berlin event to tackle remote design’s ‘tough nuts.’

🔬 Remote Agile Survey — Let’s Stop Guessing, Join the Study

There has been no shortage of articles on how to work remotely recently, including our series on remote Agile. While most of the ideas, lessons learned, and tips and tricks may not be new to those few remote work pioneers, they are, however, to the rest of us. The question hence is: What remote work problems are agile teams and organizations facing, and what has proven to be successful in the transition? Answering these two questions is the purpose of the Remote Agile Survey:

Let us stop guessing but collect data instead to inspect and adapt the way we can work as an agile distributed team.

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🗞️ Last Week’s Food for Agile Thought Edition

Read more: Food for Agile Thought #241: Scrum’s Essence, the New New Scrum Master, Six Product Owner Types, Roadmaps in JTBD.

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