TL; DR: Product Management Anti-Patterns, Scrum-like Kanban — Food for Agile Thought #339
Welcome to the 339th edition of the Food for Agile Thought newsletter, shared with 35,114 peers. This week, we explore product management anti-patterns, from the hamster wheel to the ivory tower to the throne room, and we ask ourselves: What is a high-performing agile team? Also, we detail how to incorporate tactics and practices from Scrum into a Kanban system and suggest a massive list of statistics on ‘Agile’ and Scrum to support your initiatives with data.
We then point to two different processes that comprise product management: a) core product work, creating objective value, and b) growth work, optimizing how a product delivers value to customers. Moreover, we explain how startups may benefit from continuous discovery work, although most start with an idea, not a customer segment and a value proposition, and we describe a system of connecting strategy with operational doing, dubbed the ‘roadmap pipeline.’
Lastly, we show how value stream optimization helps to improve throughput and quality in the development process. We also point to Ray Dalio’s book ‘Principles,’ where Dalio communicates his idea of how to share your disagreement in a considerate and constructive manner. Finally, Eric Migicovsky published a post-mortem from 2017 on lessons learned from the demise of Pebble.
Did you miss the previous Food for Agile Thought’s issue #338?
🗞 Shall I notify you about articles like this one? Awesome! You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 35,000-plus subscribers.
🎓 Join Stefan in one of his upcoming Professional Scrum training classes!
📅 Join 200-plus peers on May 30, 2022: HoA #42: The Skinny on Lean Roadmapping and OKRs w/ Janna Bastow.
🏆 The Tip of the Week: Product Management Anti-Patterns
(via Mind The Product): 📺 Product management dysfunctions
Ben Foster explores product management anti-patterns, from the hamster wheel to the ivory tower to the throne room.
➿ Agile & Scrum
: What Is a High-Performing Agile Team?
In Mike Cohn’s world, a ‘high-performing team sustainably exceeds expectations in achieving clear goals.’ Learn more about how your Scrum team can progress to that level of proficiency.
(via Medium): A Scrum-like Multi-level Kanban Implementation
Boris Karl Schlein details how to incorporate tactics and practices from Scrum into a Kanban system.
(via Parabol Focus): 300+ Agile and Scrum Statistics for 2022
Parabol aggregated a massive list of statistics on ‘Agile’ and Scrum to support your initiatives with data.
🎓 🖥 🇬🇧 Professional Scrum Product Owner Training w/ PSPO Certificate — Online: May 9-10, 2022
Discover Scrum’s four success principles in this official Scrum.org Professional Scrum Product Owner training class, leading to and including the industry-recognized PSPO I certification. The training is designed as a live virtual class and will be offered in English.
Enjoy the benefits of an compact class of two sessions with like-minded agile peers from 09:00 – 17:30 o’clock CEST.
Learn more: 🖥 🇬🇧 Professional Scrum Product Owner Training w/ PSPO Certificate — Online: May 9-10, 2022.
Customer review: “Great experience! The class was highly interactive but also paced to adapt to the participants. We learnt by doing and had a lot of fun in the process!” (Link.)
👉 From time to time, we can offer last-minute seats for training classes at cost to individuals who do not have access to a corporate training budget. If you like to be notified about these opportunities, please register here.
🎯 Product
: Two types of product work: creating value and delivering value
Oleg Yakubenkov points at two different processes that comprise product management: a) core product work, creating objective value, and b) growth work, optimizing how a product delivers value to customers.
: How Continuous Discovery Works (and Doesn’t) in Early-Stage Startups
Teresa Torres explains how startups may benefit from continuous discovery work, although most start with an idea, not a customer segment and a value proposition.
(via Medium): The Playbook to fix your Product Roadmap
Markus Müller describes his system of connecting strategy with operational doing, dubbed the ‘roadmap pipeline.’
📯 Scrum Master Anti-Patterns — 20 Signs Your Scrum Master Needs Help
The reasons Scrum Masters violate the spirit of the Scrum Guide are multi-faceted. Typical Scrum Master anti-patterns run from ill-suited personal traits to complacency to pursuing individual agendas to frustration with the team itself.
Read on and learn in this post on Scrum anti-patterns how you can identify if your Scrum Master needs support from the team.
👉 Learn more: 20 Scrum Master Anti-Patterns.
🛠 Tools & Measuring
(via InfoQ): Dynamic Value Stream Mapping to Help Increase Developer Productivity
Pavel Azaletskiy shows how value stream optimization helps to improve throughput and quality in the development process.
: My Product Management Toolkit (51): Thoughtful Disagreement
Marc Abraham points to Ray Dalio’s book ‘Principles,’ where Dalio communicates his idea of how to share your disagreement in a considerate and constructive manner.
✂️ Cutting Room Floor
(via Medium): Success and Failure at Pebble
Eric Migicovsky finally published a post-mortem from 2017 on lessons learned from the demise of Pebble.
📅 Scrum Training & Event Schedule
You can secure your seat for Scrum training classes, workshops, and meetups directly by following the corresponding link in the table below:
See all upcoming classes here.
You can book your seat for the training directly by following the corresponding links to the ticket shop. If the procurement process of your organization requires a different purchasing process, please contact Berlin Product People GmbH directly.
📺 Join 3,750-plus Agile Peers on Youtube
Now available on the Age-of-Product Youtube channel to improve learning:
- 🆕 Hands-on Agile #38: The Product Owner with Roman Pichler.
- 🆕 Agile Camp Berlin 2021: The Power and Pains of Autonomy with Jimmy Janlén.
- Hands-on Agile #31: The Zones of Value Framework with Valerio Zanini & Zeina Zeitouni.
- Hands-on Agile #35: Designing Powerful Questions to help you Coach & Create with Daniel Stillman.
- Hands-on Agile #34: Core Protocols for Psychological Safety with Richard Kasperowski.
- Agile Camp Berlin 2021: Adapt How You Lead for Agile Success with Johanna Rothman.
✋ Do Not Miss Out and Learn more about Product Management Anti-Patterns — Join the 11,000-plus Strong ‘Hands-on Agile’ Slack Community
I invite you to join the “Hands-on Agile” Slack Community and enjoy the benefits of a fast-growing, vibrant community of agile practitioners from around the world.
If you like to join all you have to do now is provide your credentials via this Google form, and I will sign you up. By the way, it’s free.
