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Food for Agile Thought #396: How to Give Constructive Feedback, Cognitive Bias in Product, Learning Scrum Just-In-Time, Agile & UX: A Failed Marriage?

by Stefan Wolpers | 2023-06-09 News

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.

Food for Agile Thought #396: How to Give Constructive Feedback, Cognitive Bias in Product, Learning Scrum Just-In-Time, Agile & UX: A failed marriage? — Age-of-Product.com

Scrum Master Interview Questions — ChatGPT Edition

by Stefan Wolpers | 2023-06-05 Agile and Scrum

TL; DR: Can ChatGPT 4.0 Create Scrum Master Interview Questions?

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.

Scrum Master Interview Questions — ChatGPT Edition — Age-or-Product.com

Food for Agile Thought #395: Micromanagement Is Good, Cracking Product Strategy, FAST Agile Beats Scrum, Tracking User Insights

by Stefan Wolpers | 2023-06-02 News

TL; DR: Micromanagement Is Good — Food for Agile Thought #395

Welcome to the 395th edition of the Food for Agile Thought newsletter, shared with 47,112 peers. This week, Jim Highsmith advocates that the agile community’s “don’t micromanage” tenet is entirely wrong; in other words: Micromanagement is good in some places. We then share a success story of replacing Scrum with FAST Agile, highlighting the differences between the two approaches, while claiming that a prerequisite for change is to make it simple and cheap. Also, we list reasons someone might not speak up when encountering issues, even in relatively psychologically safe environments.

Then, Peter Yang interviews Jackie Bavaro regarding practical tips on defining a product strategy and getting buy-in across your organization. Moreover, we learn about Notion’s ‘evolving internal processes, product reviews, planning cadences, and increasing shift to synchronous communication.’ Are you considering how to integrate generative AI into your current product best? Look no further: Aniket Deosthali details a proven approach to creating AI products. Also, we delve into how to ‘create a library of user insights to keep track of research findings.’

Finally, we learn how Agile works at Tesla; we list four team assessment categories, from checklists of key practices to quantitative assessments of desired outcomes. Moreover, according to David Heinemeier Hansson, running a flat organization requires substituting the traditional managerial approach with an asynchronous, self-managing paradigm. Lastly, Sketchplanations visualized Richard Feynman’s approach to understanding something deeply.

Food for Agile Thought #395: Micromanagement Is Good, Cracking Product Strategy, FAST Agile Beats Scrum, Tracking User Insights — Age-of-Product.com

How Elon Musk Would Run YOUR Business mit Joe Justice — Hands-on Agile EXTRA

by Stefan Wolpers | 2023-05-29 Agile and ScrumVideos

TL; DR: How Elon Musk Would Run YOUR Business with Joe Justice

Joe Justice worked for Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk.

In this Hands-on Agile meetup, Joe shared DX, or Digital Transformation, the agile operating system for TeslaSpeed—a term coined by the EU Commission to talk about how fast Tesla moves and how fast they need to move now.

How Elon Musk Would Run YOUR Business mit Joe Justice — Hands-on Agile EXTRA — Age-of-Product.com

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Food for Agile Thought #394: Amazon Product Management Framework, Ethics of Agile Coaching, Product-led Transformations, The Dunning-Kruger Effect

by Stefan Wolpers | 2023-05-26 News

TL; DR: Amazon Product Management Framework — Food for Agile Thought #394

Welcome to the 394th edition of the Food for Agile Thought newsletter, shared with 46,957 peers. This week, we start with exploring the Amazon product management framework, a 10-step process. Moreover, we assess the state of ethics in agile coaching and apply Goldratt’s idea that a business aims to make money now and in the future to Scrum. Moreover, Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson interviewed Jim Highsmith, one of the authors of the Agile Manifesto, and we explore a magic technique to turn a boring Retrospective into an outstanding one.

Then, we reflect on the trend in product development of dropping the dogma and seeking what works, sharing an excellent primer on a problematic strategic decision with an often underestimated importance for your business to get you going. Speaking of what works for you: Lenny Rachitsky interviewed Gustav Söderström, Co-President, CPO, and CTO at Spotify, on what has worked for them.

Finally, we attempt to debunk the original findings of Dunning and Kruger, claiming that the actual effect is that “everyone thinks they are better than average.” We also dip into the meaning of IKIGAI and share a comprehensive essay mapping the similarities and differences between Sociocracy and Holacracy. Lastly, we point to research by the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard, shedding “light on what it takes for people to get comfortable with machine learning.”

Food for Agile Thought #394: Amazon Product Management Framework, Ethics of Agile Coaching, Product-led Transformations, The Dunning-Kruger Effect — Age-of-Product.com

Retrospective Facilitation: A Simple Hack to Go from Good to Great

by Stefan Wolpers | 2023-05-22 Agile and Scrum

TL; DR: Retrospective Facilitation — Going from Good to 🦄 Great

The magic technique to turn a boring Retrospective into an outstanding Retrospective is the rotation of the facilitator role equally among all team members. Check out the following ten benefits of this Retrospective facilitation practice, from boosting learning and skill development to ensuring continuity to encouraging ownership.

Retrospective Facilitation: A Simple Hack to Go from Good to Great — Age-of-Product.com