Food for Agile Thought #273: Visual Collaboration, Cost-Saving with Agile, User Stories vs. Use Cases, Rejecting Feature Requests

TL; DR: Visual Collaboration, Rejecting Requests — Food for Agile Thought #273

Welcome to the 273rd edition of the Food for Agile Thought newsletter, shared with 29,133 peers. This week, we appreciate the merits of visual collaboration; we detail the path of agility from the team level to the organizational level, and we reflect on cost-saving with ‘Agile’ and its inherent trickiness.

We then delve into the differences between user stories and use cases; we share a hands-on guide on how to move toward a balanced, outcome-driven way of product development, and we embrace an approach that allows understanding which stakeholder requests to accept or reject—without burning bridges. We also welcome a set of 50 team building activities, games, and exercises from communication to collaboration to alignment and vision.

🎉 Wishing you a joyous Holiday season and a happy and peaceful New Year. The next edition of ‘Food for Agile Thought’ will be available on January 10th, 2021.

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🏆 The Tip of the Week: Visual Collaboration

Jeff Gothelf: 3 Ways Visualization Drives Collaboration, Agility, and Inclusion

Jeff Gothelf points at the benefits of collaborative visualization: quickly extracting different assumptions to figure out how to move on as a team with a shared understanding.

Agile & Scrum

(via InfoQ): Moving from Agile Teams towards an Agile Organization

Fernando Guigou details the path of agility from the team level to the organizational level.

Mike Cottmeyer (via Leading Agile): 📺 The Right Way to Think About Cost Savings with Agile

In this 8-min video, Mike Cottmeyer reflects on cost-saving with ‘Agile’ and its inherent trickiness.

Liz Keogh: How Agile Manages Out Innovation

Liz Keogh suggests running experiments simultaneously, not sequentially, when facing complex problems.

James Smart (via SessionLab): 50 Team Building Activities to Improve Teamwork

James Smart put together a collection of team building activities, games, and exercises from communication to collaboration to alignment and vision.

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Product

(via UX Magazine): User Stories vs Use Cases: How They Stack up

Patrick Joseph Downs delves into the differences between user stories and use cases.

(via Medium): A 4-Step Guide for Day-to-Day Product Discovery

Sophia Höfling shares a hands-on guide on how to move toward a balanced, outcome-driven way of product development.

Andrew Quan (via Product Coalition): Tactfully Rejecting Feature Requests

Andrew Quan shares an approach that allows understanding which stakeholder requests to accept or reject—without burning bridges.

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🗞️ Last Week’s Food for Agile Thought Edition

Read more: Food for Agile Thought #272: Awesome Remote Teams, Agile Iron Triangle, Product Manager vs. Product Owner, Cursed Success Metrics?.

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