Food for Agile Thought’s issue #182—shared with 21,278 peers—addresses the agile-industrial complex, the stages of progress in becoming agile—provided your organization belongs to the lucky few—, and the state of Cynefin in 2019.
We also learn more on how to deal with complaints that your user stories are not detailed enough—and why it is worth to get to the ground of this notion—; why strategy maps are essential to building valuable products, and how to Marie Kondo your product backlog.
Lastly, we understand why capability maturity models are unsuited for assessing any form of agility.
Did you miss last week’s Food for Agile Thought’s issue #180?
🏆 The Essential Read: The Agile-Industrial Complex
(via Medium): Agile’s Ethical Dilemma, Decision Distribution, and the Trojan War
Charles Lambdin dissects the Trojan Horse that killed Agile and the agile-industrial complex.
Advertisement
Join the Software Product Management Summit—The Hands-on Experience for Product People
For another year, the SPM Summit is taking place in the heart of Europe with a mission to bring together software product managers from a variety of industries for a lively and informal 2-day gathering. During the event, we’ll be sharing thoughts with leaders from business and academia, engaging in hands-on sessions, and expanding our network of professional contacts.
Learn more and register today with the promo code AGE-OF-PRODUCT at Software Product Management Summit.
Agile & Scrum
(via Scrum.org): Iterating toward Professional Scrum
Roland Flemm reflects on the various states of a Scrum adoption—from taking the Scrum Guide literally to stalling to Professional Scrum.
Agility gets lost in committing at Sprint Planning, sacrificing quality to make the Sprint, blaming in the Sprint Review and complaining in the Sprint Retrospective.
(via Cognitive Edge): Cynefin as of St Davids Day 2019 (1 of 3)
Dave Snowden explains the name change of the Cynefin domain ‘simple’ to ‘obvious.’
: Omega Learning
Venkatesh Rao dissects the capability maturity model (CMM) approach of acquiring of new management knowledge.
Product & Lean
: My Stories Are Too Short…
Rich Mironov notes that what team members say they want is not always what they want, or what’s good for them.
: A Strategy Map
Roman Pichler introduces the strategy map—a guide to the strategic decisions required to make and keep products successful.
: 4 Steps for Agile Product Backlogs that are Too Big
Mike Cohn presents four things you can do to keep your product backlog to a more manageable size.
📺 Join 1,225-plus Agile Peers on Youtube
Now available on the Age-of-Product Youtube channel:
✋ Do Not Miss Out and Learn about the Agile-Industrial Complex: Join the 4,925-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.
🗞️ Last Week’s Food for Agile Thought Edition
Read more: Food for Agile Thought #181: Dark Agile, Agile Governance, Scrum Master Trends Report, Product Reviews.