Food for Agile Thought #259: Fully Remote Teams, Benevolent Dictators, Testing Business Ideas, Lean Risk Mitigation

TL; DR: Fully Remote Teams, Benevolent Dictators — Food for Agile Thought #259

Welcome to the 259th edition of the Food for Agile Thought newsletter, shared with 27,128 peers. This week, we have a glimpse at the world of fully remote teams. We also derisk projects with pre-mortems, and we learn about decision making and benevolent dictators.

We then embrace the testing of business ideas; we discover a lean approach to risk mitigation, and we learn about one startup’s path to product/market-fit.

Lastly, we are grateful for a workshop planning canvas to support our facilitation efforts.

Food for Agile Thought #259: Fully Remote Teams, Benevolent Dictators, Testing Business Ideas, Lean Risk Mitigation — Age-of-Product.com

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🏆 The Tip of the Week: Fully Remote Teams

(via Fast Company): GitLab’s radical vision for the future of remote work

Fast Company believes that the world’s largest all-remote company offers a glimpse into the future of work.

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Agile & Scrum

Mike Cohn: Project pre-mortem: How-to guide for preventing problems

Mike Cohn describes a TRIZ-like approach to risk mitigation by figuring out in advance what can go wrong.

(via Stack Overflow): Open source governance: Benevolent dictator or decision by committee?

Ryan Donovan analyzes the options of how to manage an open-source software project. A good read for Scrum Master and Product Owners, too.

Ellen Gottesdiener (via Medium): Workshop by Design Canvas: Making Collaboration Work

Ellen Gottesdiener advocates that creating a healthy product community is best achieved with facilitated workshops.

📅 🖥 🇬🇧 Professional Scrum Product Owner Training — Online: September 29 to October 2, 2020

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📅 🖥 Professional Scrum Product Owner Training — Online: September 29 to October 2, 2020 — Berlin Product People GmbH

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Product & Lean

David J Bland (via Mind The Product): 📺 Testing Business Ideas

In this video, David J Bland speaks about his process of writing his book ‘Testing Business Ideas.’ Of course, he tested the content of the book as he was writing it.

Itamar Gilad: A Lean Approach to Opportunities and Threats

Itamar Gilad delves into how to avoid missing out on product opportunities.

Rahul Vohra (via First Round Capital): 🎙 How Superhuman Built an Engine to Find Product/Market Fit

Rahul Vohra shares the story of how his startup managed to create a product their customers love.

📯 Agile Management Anti-Patterns — An Introduction for Aspiring Servant Leaders

Learn more about agile management anti-patterns the aspiring servant leader should avoid during the organization’s transition: From applying the Stage-Gate® approach through the back door to the ‘where is my report’ attitude to other beloved signs of applied Taylorism.

Agile Management Anti-Patterns: An Introduction for the Aspiring Servant Leader — Age-of-Product.com

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🗞️ Last Week’s Food for Agile Thought Edition

Read more: Food for Agile Thought #258: Agile Bedside Manners, Deep Listening, Agile-Consulting Radar 2020, Agile & UX: Friends or Foes?

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