Food for Agile Thought #210: Customer Journey Teams, Anti-Agile Personalities, Team Health Check, Product Team Mistakes

Food for Agile Thought’s issue #210—shared with 23,637 peers—analyzes why customer journey teams may be superior to cross-functional teams; we enjoy a list of anti -agile personality types, and we listen to Mr. DevOps on how to build high-performance organizations.

We also help product managers to understand user research better; we delve into the most annoying collaboration mistakes of product teams, and we grasp the prerequisites of product-market fit.

Lastly, we thank Andy Cleff for compiling a list of approaches to measure team health and morale.

Did you miss last week’s Food for Agile Thought’s issue #209?

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🏆 The Essential Read on Customer Journey Teams

Ole Jepsen (via InfoQ): The Magic of Organizing around Customer Journeys – and How to do it

Ole Jepsen and Maria Ebro Andreasen explain why cross-functional teams may be inferior to focusing on value streams and customer journeys.

Agile & Scrum

Anneli Olsen (via Crisp): Anti-Agile Personalities – Part 2

Anneli Olsen describes personalities that stand in the way of agile product development.

Andy Cleff: Agile Team Health Check Models

Andy Cleff shares a comprehensive list of models intended to measure team health and morale—if that works at all.

Jez Humble (via InfoQ): 📺 Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations

In this Agile India keynote, Jez Humble presents the results from DevOps Research and Assessment research program.

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Product & Lean

Steve Portigal (via Mind The Product): 📺 Great User Research (for Non-Researchers)

Steve Portigal tells us how to level up our research skills as product managers quickly.

Laura Klein: Product Team Mistakes, Part 1: Communicating Company & User Needs

Laura Klein has started a series of blog posts on the most significant mistakes product teams are making when it comes to collaborating.

Peter Lauten and David Ulevitch (via Andreessen Horowitz): Product-User Fit Comes Before Product-Market Fit

Peter Lauten and David Ulevitch redefine product-market fit on a ‘small cohort of very early power users.’

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🗞️ Last Week’s Food for Agile Thought Edition

Read more: Food for Agile Thought #209: Design Thinking Habits, From Dark to Light Agile, Idea Validation, Lean UX Canvas v2.

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