Food for Agile Thought #245
TL; DR: Agile Well-Done, Fired by an Agile Team — Food for Agile Thought #245
Welcome to the 245th edition of the Food for Agile Thought newsletter, shared with 26,683 peers. This week, we learn about eight signs that indicate Agile well-done and how to organize a Gemba walk. Moreover, we also ask: can self-organizing teams fire teammates themselves?
We then delve into stakeholder alignment as well as eight ways to get your Product Backlog into shape without looking like an Excel sheet. We also discover hidden fears that might drive product management sub-consciously more that we want to admit.
Lastly, we come back once more to critical components of an agile friendly culture.
Did you miss last week’s Food for Agile Thought’s issue #244?
🏆 The Tip of the Week: Agile Well-Done
Bob Galen (via TechBeacon): 8 ways to know when you’ve done agile well
Bob Galen lists eight rare measures of successful agile teams and organizations.
Source: TechBeacon: 8 ways to know when you’ve done agile well
Author: Bob Galen
Agile & Scrum
📺 Zak Meziane (via InfoQ): Is Your Culture Agile-friendly Or Agile-repellent?
Zak Meziane takes an interactive journey into the critical components of an agile friendly culture.
Source: InfoQ: 📺 Is Your Culture Agile-friendly Or Agile-repellent?
Author: Zak Meziane
Mike Cohn: Can Agile Teams Choose Who’s In — and Who’s Out?
Mike Cohn asks a simple question: how far does self-organization go?
Source: Can Agile Teams Choose Who’s In — and Who’s Out?
Author: Mike Cohn
(via Kanban Zone): The Gemba Walk: Identify Improvements
Kanban Zone provides a cheat sheet on a fundamental part of the Lean management philosophy.
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Product & Lean
Roman Pichler: Stakeholder Management Tips for Product People
Roman Pichler reflects on herding cats — pardon: stakeholders — and how to align them for the benefit of the customers.
Source: Stakeholder Management Tips for Product People
Author: Roman Pichler
Anthony Murphy (via Miro): 8 Different Ways to Organize Your Backlog template
Ant Murphy rightfully notes that Product Backlogs do not have to look like an Excel spreadsheet.
Source: Miro: 8 Different Ways to Organize Your Backlog template
Author: Ant Murphy
Andre Schweighofer: Anxiety in product development
Andre Schweighofer describes anxiety-driven development.
Source: Anxiety in product development
Author: Andre Schweighofer
📯 Remote Agile (9): A Cheat Sheet for Remote Agile Event Planning
Imagine, you are supposed to facilitate a remote user-story mapping with 26 people from all over our organization. Or, think about a remote meta-level Retrospective of a recent release of your organization’s cash cow that went sideways. You may ask yourself: How am I planning for this given that participants likely have different levels of experience, and everyone needs to be included fully in the discussion? My solution to this challenge is going the extra mile regarding the remote agile event planning.
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Learn more: Remote Agile (9): A Cheat Sheet for Remote Agile Event Planning.
🗞️ Last Week’s Food for Agile Thought Edition
Read more: Food for Agile Thought #244: Agile’s State 2020, Tech Radar 2020, Fixing Remote Work, Alignment Frameworks.
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Food for Agile Thought #245: Agile Well-Done, Fired by an Agile Team, Herding Stakeholders, Anxiety-Driven Product Development was first published on Age-of-Product.com.
