TL; DR: Ruinous Scrum, Losing Out to SAFe — Food for Agile Thought #249
Welcome to the 249th edition of the Food for Agile Thought newsletter, shared with 26,763 peers. This week, we analyze the ruinous Scrum claim of some developers; we empathize with a failed attempt to avoid SAFe, and we learn about the success of an ambitious change project with Scrum.
We then delve into the journey of Sarah Cooper and her approach to product discovery as a comedian; we reassure our belief that lying to customers is unacceptable, and we analyze five critical success criteria of Design Thinking.
Lastly, we thank Bob Sutton for an interview on change and identifying pockets of excellence.
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🏆 The Tip of the Week: Ruinous Scrum
(via Stack Overflow): Does scrum ruin great engineers or are you doing it wrong?
Stack Overflow picks up a thread of its software engineering site with a bold claim.
Agile & Scrum
(via Mind The Product): Why we Fought SAFe and how we Lost
Stephen Culligan shares an honest and humorous tale of a ‘failed’ attempt to take on SAFe.
(via IDEO U): 🎙 How Great Leaders Set the Tempo of Change
In this interview, Bob Sutton reflects on change and identifying pockets of excellence.
(via Agile Alliance): A 6 Month Cultural Transformation with Scrum
Jeff Bubolz and Laura Henderson share their lessons learned from an ambitious change project.
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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.
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Learn more: 📅 🖥 💯 🇩🇪 Professional Scrum Master Live Virtual Class: July 15-16, 2020.
Product & Lean
and : 😂 Sarah Cooper’s 10,000 Hours
Trung Phan delves into the journey of Sarah Cooper and her approach to product discovery as a comedian.
: Lying To Customers
Rich Mironov elaborates on his narrow, somewhat puritanical view about product manager conversations.
: Five Habits of Design Thinking
Christina Wodtke analyzes five critical success criteria of Design Thinking.
📯 Using Unhangout to Host a Virtual Barcamp or Open Space — Hands-on Agile #24
Last week, 30-plus attendees of the 24th Hands-on Agile meetup ran a virtual Barcamp experiment w/ MIT’s Unhangout, an open-source platform for organizing attendee-driven virtual open space events.
Read on and learn whether Unhangout is a suitable solution to remote collaboration challenges: Using Unhangout to Host a Virtual Barcamp or Open Space — Hands-on Agile #24.
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