Food for Agile Thought #180: Micromanagement Perils, Scaling Agile Teams, Impact vs. Output, MVP Viability
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Food for Agile Thought’s issue #180 focuses on micromanagement perils and the magic that happens once you leave the industrial paradigm behind you. We also learn about four different approaches on how to scale agile team, and we revisit the velocity as well as the minimum viable product discussion.
Being dedicated storytellers ourselves, we borrow from Pixar’s rule book on storytelling, and we embrace eight ways how we can focus our product teams on outcome/impact, not output/features.
Lastly, we applaud Mike Cohn for busting more product development myths!
PS: Did you miss last week’s Food for Agile Thought’s issue #179?
?? The Essential Read: Micromanagement Perils
?? Chieh Huang (via TED Talks): Confessions of a recovering micromanager
Chieh Huang shares the magic that happened once Boxed decided to reject the micromanagement madness and started fostering self-organization instead.
Source: ?? TED Talks: Confessions of a recovering micromanager
Author: Chieh Huang
Agile & Scrum
Viktor Cessan: The Often Missed Team Building Activity — An Organizational Growth Strategy
Viktor Cessan sketches four principal ways of scaling the number of agile teams.
Source: The Often Missed Team Building Activity — An Organizational Growth Strategy
Author: Viktor Cessan
Mike Cohn: Six Agile Product Development Myths: Busted
Mike Cohn busts six myths about agile product development, from #NoPlanning to #NoManagers.
Source: Six Agile Product Development Myths: Busted
Author: Mike Cohn
Ilia Pavlichenko (via Scrum.org): Why Focus on Velocity Inhibits Agility
Ilia Pavlichenko points at the dangerous dynamic of focusing on a Development Team’s velocity.
Source: Scrum.org: Why Focus on Velocity Inhibits Agility
Author: Ilia Pavlichenko
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Product & Lean
John Cutler (via Medium): Do This Now: 8 Ways to Focus your Product Team on Impact, Not Features
John Cutler lists eight ways on how organizations can focus on impact instead of merely delivering features.
Source: Medium: Do This Now: 8 Ways to Focus your Product Team on Impact, Not Features
Author: John Cutler
Shahed Khalili (via Medium): Pixar’s Rules of Storytelling Applied to Product Managers & UX Designers
Shahed Khalili claims that product managers and user experience designers need to be storytellers.
Source: Medium: Pixar’s Rules of Storytelling Applied to Product Managers & UX Designers
Author: Shahed Khalili
Patrick Thornton (via uxdesign.cc): A Minimal Viable Product needs to actually be viable
According to Patrick Thornton, you can’t iterate to viability. Learn more about what this means for the MVP.
Source: uxdesign.cc: A Minimal Viable Product needs to actually be viable
Author: Patrick Thornton
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