TL; DR: Estimating Cost of Delay, Re-Teaming — Food for Agile Thought #269
Welcome to the 269th edition of the Food for Agile Thought newsletter, shared with 28,267 peers. This week, we delve into estimating Cost of Delay; we identify nine signs that your CEO understands Scrum, and we learn that mental models impact the efficiency and accuracy in decision-making.
We then enjoy the essence of product leadership from a new Marty Cagan book; we get into measuring real progress as a product team, and we embrace the canary product launch approach to test the waters with a restricted set of clients.
Lastly, we applaud Ken & Jeff for releasing the new Scrum Guide 2020.
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🏆 The Tip of the Week
: Estimating Cost of Delay
Charles Lambdin comes back to Reinertsen, stressing the importance of CoD for a product manager’s prioritization game.
Agile & Scrum
: Re-Teaming, Not Churn
Esther Derby points at something apparently non-obvious: Re-teaming requires care and consideration.
(via Enterprisers Project): Agile: 9 signs your leader gets Scrum
The authors list nine signals to watch out for to determine whether the C-level supports your transformation.
(via TechTello): Availability Heuristic: Trade-Off Between Efficiency And Accuracy In Decision Process
Vinita Bansal delves into how mental models benefit and harm our decision-making, referring to Tversky and Kahneman, and Dan Ariely.
(via Know Your Team | Blog): 5 communication best practices for remote teams
Claire Lew points at the most useful communication practices for remote teams that we often overlook.
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Product & Lean
: Product Leadership Is Hard
Marty Cagan summarizes the essence of the product leadership role from his new book “Empowered.”
(via UX Collective): High-performing product teams: Measuring real progress
Afonso Maló Franco dissects what ‘measuring meaningful progress’ implies for product teams and how to get there.
(via Mind The Product): Stress-free Feature Releases - A Simple Guide to Progressive Rollouts
Antoine Banctel-Chevrel details how a canary launch approach lets you test the waters with a restricted set of clients.
(via First Round Capital): Build Products That Solve Real Problems With This Lightweight JTBD Framework
In this JTBD primer, Sunita Mohanty introduces the product framework she relies on daily.
📯 Scrum Guide 2020 — The Development Team Is Dead; Long Live the Scrum Team!
The Scrum Guide 2020 is available now: Change is coming to make Scrum more accessible and inclusive beyond software development. Learn more about the changes, download the brand new and free Scrum Guide 2020 Reordered to spot patterns quickly, and join the Scrum community discussion.
Learn more: Scrum Guide 2020 — The Development Team Is Dead; Long Live the Scrum Team!
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