Food for Agile Thought #182: Agile-Industrial Complex, Pro Scrum, Cynefin 2019, Marie Kondo Your Product Backlog
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Food for Agile Thought’s issue #182 addresses the agile-industrial complex, the stages of progress in becoming agile — provided your organization belongs to the lucky few — , and the state of Cynefin in 2019.
We also learn more on how to deal with complaints that your user stories are not detailed enough — and why it is worth to get to the ground of this notion — ; why strategy maps are essential to building valuable products, and how to Marie Kondo your product backlog.
Lastly, we understand why capability maturity models are unsuited for assessing any form of agility.
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?? The Essential Read: The Agile-Industrial Complex
Charles Lambdin (via Medium): Agile’s Ethical Dilemma, Decision Distribution, and the Trojan War
Charles Lambdin dissects the Trojan Horse that killed Agile and the agile-industrial complex.
Source: Medium: Agile’s Ethical Dilemma, Decision Distribution, and the Trojan War
Author: Charles Lambdin
Agile & Scrum
Roland Flemm (via Scrum.org): Iterating toward Professional Scrum
Roland Flemm reflects on the various states of a Scrum adoption — from taking the Scrum Guide literally to stalling to Professional Scrum.
Agility gets lost in committing at Sprint Planning, sacrificing quality to make the Sprint, blaming in the Sprint Review and complaining in the Sprint Retrospective.
Source: Scrum.org: Iterating toward Professional Scrum
Author: Roland Flemm
Dave Snowden (via Cognitive Edge): Cynefin as of St Davids Day 2019 (1 of 3)
Dave Snowden explains the name change of the Cynefin domain ‘simple’ to ‘obvious.’
Source: Cognitive Edge: Cynefin as of St Davids Day 2019 (1 of 3)
Author: Dave Snowden
Venkatesh Rao: Omega Learning
Venkatesh Rao dissects the capability maturity model (CMM) approach of acquiring of new management knowledge.
Source: Omega Learning
Author: Venkatesh Rao
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Product & Lean
Rich Mironov: My Stories Are Too Short…
Rich Mironov notes that what team members say they want is not always what they want, or what’s good for them.
Source: My Stories Are Too Short…
Author: Rich Mironov
Roman Pichler: A Strategy Map
Roman Pichler introduces the strategy map — a guide to the strategic decisions required to make and keep products successful.
Source: A Strategy Map
Author: Roman Pichler
Mike Cohn: 4 Steps for Agile Product Backlogs that are Too Big
Mike Cohn presents four things you can do to keep your product backlog to a more manageable size.
Source: 4 Steps for Agile Product Backlogs that are Too Big
Author: Mike Cohn
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