Food for Agile Thought’s issue #162—shared with 19,373 peers—focuses on the problem of imposing agile practices top-down to achieve organizational agility, why enterprise organizations are so nerve-wreckingly slow, and why commitment cultures seem to produce better outcomes.
We then dive deep into product strategy. From how to be more strategic, to establishing an effective process, to running bets from a portfolio of innovation options.
Lastly, we applaud Puppet for providing the community with the 2018 edition of the State of DevOps report, now including a maturity model.
Have a great week!
🏆 The Essential Read
(via Medium): Organisational Agility: Give People a VOICE
Jonathan Smart advocates against prescriptive practices, the one-size-fits-all-approach of top-down ‘Agile Transformations.’
Organizational Agility & Scrum
: Why Are Enterprises So Slow?
Ian Miell shares his insights into the particularities of enterprise software delivery and why it may be testing your patience.
(via Mind The Product): Why Commitment Culture Wins
Damian Hughes proposes creating ‘commitment cultures,’ as those win more often than other forms of culture.
(via Puppet): 2018 State of DevOps Report
The 2018 edition of the State of DevOps Report introduces a maturity model for introducing DevOps practices.Survey: How Do You Solve Impediments?
No matter if you are a Scrum Master or an agile coach, sooner or later, you will run into a problem that’s outside of the team’s sphere of control. The question is: How do you solve impediments of this kind? What approach has worked best for you in the past?
Barry Overeem, Christiaan Verwijs and I teamed up to provide some transparency in this matter and share your best techniques and approach with the agile community. All it takes to contribute is five minutes of your time to participate in the anonymous ‘how to solve impediments’ survey. (We expect results to be available in November.)
Participate in the ‘how to solve impediments’ survey now!
Product & Lean
(via Medium): How to be Strategic
Julie Zhuo shares her secret sauce of how to be more strategic.
: Establishing an Effective Product Strategy Process
Roman Pichler points at making the right strategic product decision—an essential ingredient to developing a successful product.
: Value Engineering for Outcome-based Bets
Barry O'Reilly stresses the importance of having a portfolio of innovation options. Learn, how this works.
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