Food for Agile Thought #160
Food for Agile Thought’s issue #160 addresses a need we all share: our whiteboard skills. We also follow Ian Mitchell’s idea to move from predicting a shipping date to providing a likelihood of completion with Monte Carlo forecasting. We also appreciate Ron Jeffries’ thoughts beyond XP and Scrum.
We then revisit a favorite topic — how to deal with our nemesis, the sales folks — , we consider complementing Design Thinking with Scrum, and we learn how to become faster than the competition in identifying the non-obvious, yet lucrative market opportunity.
Lastly, we have another survey running: join 140-plus peers and share your greatest success solving an issue outside your sphere of control.
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🏆 The Essential Read
Yuri Malishenko (via Medium): Learn these two simple techniques that will dramatically improve your whiteboard skills
Yuri Malishenko helps you to become a pro when working with whiteboards.
Source: Medium: Learn these two simple techniques that will dramatically improve your whiteboard skills
Author: Yuri Malishenko
Agile & Scrum
Ron Jeffries: New Framework? XP Revisited? No…
Ron Jeffries shares his recent reflections on agile practices, XP, Scrum, and ‘all that jazz.’
Source: New Framework? XP Revisited? No…
Author: Ron Jeffries
Ian Mitchell (via Scrum.org): Monte Carlo forecasting in Scrum
Ian Mitchell suggests focussing on the likelihood of completion instead of providing a delivery date to satisfy stakeholders’ curiosity.
Source: Scrum.org: Monte Carlo forecasting in Scrum
Author: Ian Mitchell
Viktor Cessan: Turn Up The Good with the ”The Good, The Great, and The Amazing” Retrospective
Viktor Cessan created a short retrospective format based upon practices and elements that are already good to make them even better.
Source: Turn Up The Good with the ”The Good, The Great, and The Amazing” Retrospective
Author: Viktor Cessan
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.)
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Product & Lean
Takeshi Yoshida (via Medium): Try Design Thinking + Scrum
Takeshi Yoshida believes that Design Thinking and Scrum are complementary agile approaches — why not combine both?
Source: Medium: Try Design Thinking + Scrum
Author: Takeshi Yoshida
Elad Gil (via First Round): Future Founders, Here’s How to Spot and Build in Nonobvious Markets
Elad Gil on how to find what bucks conventional wisdom before anyone else and scaling it into a high-growth company.
Source: First Round Capital: Future Founders, Here’s How to Spot and Build in Nonobvious Markets
Author: Elad Gil
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Food for Agile Thought #160: Whiteboard Hero, Monte Carlo Forecasting, Coping w/ Sales, Design Thinking + Scrum was first published on Age-of-Product.com.
