TL; DR: Constructive Feedback Framework — Food for Agile Thought #396
Welcome to the 396th edition of the Food for Agile Thought newsletter, shared with 47,254 peers. This week, we learn about Roman Pichler’s new constructive feedback framework to help you to have difficult conversations with stakeholders, management, and team members. Moreover, we share lessons learned on ‘instilling Agile and Scrum knowledge based on a Just-In-Time strategy’ and point to the obvious: Working extra hard and overtime causes stress and burnout and will, inevitably, lead to mistakes.
Then, we delve into the psychology behind questionable decision product people make, from sunk cost fallacy to the Halo effect, and appreciate Steven Sinofsky’s epic essay on ‘patterns and practices in the creation, rise, and fall of platforms.’ Also, we analyze the intersection of artificial intelligence and product management, for example, ‘AI’s ability to emulate human cognition’ and provide insight into the effort to integrate User Experience & Design (UX) within the Agile software development frameworks: Agile & UX — a failed marriage?
Finally, we Look back at 20 years of the Double Diamond, now available in version 4.1, supporting the concept with a long list of product discovery practices, from the Concierge Test to the Fake Door Test to A/B testing. Lastly, Marc Andreessen goes all in on artificial intelligence, claiming it is a ‘way to make everything we care about better,’ and Google Cloud provides a free, curated collection of content on generative AI products and technologies.
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🏆 The Tip of the Week: How to Give Constructive Feedback
: How to Offer Constructive Feedback: A Framework for Product People
Roman Pichler created a framework to help you to have difficult conversations with stakeholders, management, and team members.
🍋 The Lemon of the Week — From the Archives
(via News.YC (HackerNews)): Agile sucks for software development and I’m tired of pretending it doesn’t
In a rambling thread, nabazlbhf1337 delves into ‘agile extremism’ and its supposedly resulting collateral damage.
➿ Agile & Scrum
(via Agile Alliance): Adopting Scrum in a Management Team with a Just-In-Time Learning Approach
Erik De Bos shares lessons learned on ‘instilling Agile and Scrum knowledge based on a Just-In-Time strategy.’
: Why Sustainable Pace Is So Important to Agile Teams
Mike Cohn points to the obvious: Working extra hard and overtime causes stress and burnout and will, inevitably, lead to mistakes.
(via Medium): Fixing Agile. Part 1
Alexander Ryazanov, noting that ‘Agile’ has drifted too far away from original ideas, ventures out to fix it.
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🎯 Product
(via Mind The Product): How to deal with cognitive bias in Product
Christine Itwaru delves into the psychology behind questionable decision product people make, from sunk cost fallacy to the Halo effect.
: Ultimate Guide to Platforms
Steven Sinofsky wrote an epic essay on ‘patterns and practices in the creation, rise, and fall of platforms.’
(via Mind The Product): From LaLa Land to The Matrix: Can AI replace product management?
Jing Hu analyzes the intersection of artificial intelligence and product management, for example, ‘AI’s ability to emulate human cognition.’
📯 Scrum Master Interview Questions — ChatGPT Edition
Previously, I tested how ChatGPT would answer questions from the Scrum Master Interview Guide; see below. Back in January 2023, I would not have taken the next step in the Scrum Master interview process, inviting ChatGPT to a full-size interview with several Scrum team members.
So, if the GPT 3.5 or 4.0 models still need to be better to pass the interview hurdle, what about their capability to create similar interview questions? Enjoy the following article on my excursion into creating Scrum Master interview questions with ChatGPT.
Learn more: Scrum Master Interview Questions — ChatGPT Edition.
🛠 Concepts, Tools & Measuring
(via UX Collective): Agile & UX: a failed marriage?
Aviram (Avi) Vijh provides insight into the effort to integrate User Experience & Design (UX) within the Agile software development frameworks.
(via uxdesign.cc): Double Diamond v4.1: an operating manual for designers using AI
Looking back at 20 years of the Double Diamond, Darren Yeo reports on its latest incarnation.
(via UX Collective): The ultimate guide to Product Discovery Techniques
Bart Jaworski shares a long list of product discovery practices, from the Concierge Test to the Fake Door Test to A/B testing.
🎶 Encore
(via Andreessen Horowitz): Why AI Will Save the World
Marc Andreessen goes all in on artificial intelligence, claiming it is a ‘way to make everything we care about better.’
(via Google Cloud): generative AI learning path
“This learning path guides you through a curated collection of content on generative AI products and technologies, from the fundamentals of Large Language Models to how to create and deploy generative AI solutions on Google Cloud.”
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Now available on the Age-of-Product Youtube channel to improve learning, for example, about how to give constructive feedback:
- Hands-on Agile EXTRA: How Elon Musk Would Run YOUR Business with Joe Justice.
- Hands-on Agile 50: The Product Community of Practice with Petra Wille.
- Hands-on Agile 46: The Agile Fluency Model ® with Diana Larsen.
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- Hands-on Agile 42: Lean Roadmapping and OKRs with Janna Bastow.
- Hands-on Agile 38: The Product Owner with Roman Pichler.
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