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.
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🏆 The Tip of the Week: Creative Adaptability
and (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.
Agile & Scrum
: To Remove Organizational Silos, Start Here
Len Lagestee sketches a mental model of how to mend the broken organization.
: NoEstimates, Applied
Matt Philip delves into applying NoEstimates techniques and philosophy in real life.
(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.
📅 🖥 Online Professional Scrum Master Training PSM I: May 25-28, 2020
This guaranteed online Professional Scrum Master training is an official Scrum.org class that leads to and includes the industry-recognized PSM I certification. The training is designed as a live virtual class of 4 hours per day and will be offered in German.
Additional services for this online Professional Scrum Master training:
- 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.
- On request and for an additional charge of € 299 incl. 19% VAT, it is also possible to take part in a classic PSM training class.
Learn more: 📅 🖥 Professional Scrum Master Training PSM I — Online: May 25-28, 2020.
Product & Lean
: 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.
and : How OKR Helped Gmail Reach 1 Billion Users
Felipe Castro interviews Itamar Gilad on how Google used OKR to drive Gmail’s success.
(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.
👉 Participate in the Remote Agile Survey now.
📅 Scrum Training & Event Schedule
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📺 Join 2,225-plus Agile Peers on Youtube
Now available on the Age-of-Product Youtube channel:
- 🆕 Remote Agile (1) Replay: Practices and Tools for Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches, and Product Owners.
- Scrum Sprint Retrospective Anti-Patterns.
- Scrum Master Anti-Patterns.
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