Food for Agile Thought #225: Pair Programming, Probabilistic Forecasting, HiPPO Training, Idea Generation 3.0
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TL; DR: Probabilistic Forecasting, HiPPO Training — Food for Agile Thought #225
Food for Agile Thought’s issue #225 addresses the importance of pair programming; we seek to excel at predicting the future with probabilistic forecasting, and we appreciate an outsight view on Scrum by following sticky notes.
We also point at a crucial stakeholder management competence of Product Owners and Scrum Masters; we enjoy new games and exercises for ideation purposes, and we consider making our product worse for the sake of improving it.
Lastly, we embrace the coining of decaf resistance — it is good to know that a habitual behavior in so many organizations now has a name.
Did you miss last week’s Food for Agile Thought’s issue #224?
?? The Tip of the Week
Martin Fowler and Birgitta B?ckeler: On Pair Programming
Birgitta B?ckeler and Nina Siessegger share their belief that pair programming is vital for collaborative teamwork and high-quality software.
Source: On Pair Programming
Authors: Nina Siessegger and Birgitta B?ckeler
Agile, Probabilistic Forecasting & Scrum
Julia Wester (via Scrum.org): Create Faster and More Accurate Forecasts using Probabilities
Julia Wester advocates using a statistical method to support Product Owners in making forecasts.
Source: Scrum.org: Create Faster and More Accurate Forecasts using Probabilities
Author: Julia Wester
?? (via epicpeople): ′(Fr)agile objects: Thinking Scrum through Post-It Notes
Isabel Lafuente and Wilson Prata look at how Scrum is practiced, by following Post-its notes. (Access to the article requires a free account.)
Source: epicpeople: ?? ′(Fr)agile objects: Thinking Scrum through Post-It Notes
(via Naomi Stanford): Decaf, pragmatic and real resistance
Naomi Stanford introduces three types of organizational resistance.
Source: Naomi Stanford: Decaf, pragmatic and real resistance
?? Professional Scrum Master Training PSM I + Liberating Structures — Berlin, February 18–20, 2020
This extended PSM class adds a third day to the Professional Scrum Master training that focuses on the application of Liberating Structures to Scrum Events such as the Sprint Retrospective or the Sprint Review — to apply the PSM training immediately to practical problems. The class will be offered in English.
For those who are interested in applying Liberating Structures as a Scrum Master, we made only the third day of the training class available.
Learn more: ?? Professional Scrum Master Training PSM I + Liberating Structures — Berlin, February 18–20, 2020.
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Product & Lean
?? (via Mind The Product): How to Train Your Hippo
Ozlem Yuce delves into how we can better deal with the Highest Paid Person’s Opinion (HiPPO) in our organizations.
Source: Mind The Product: ?? How to Train Your Hippo
?? (via IDEO U): 10 Activities To Generate Better Ideas
Brendan Boyle shares ten games and exercises to breathe life into your ideation process. (Both in writing and as a podcast.)
Source: IDEO U: ?? 10 Activities To Generate Better Ideas
Oleg Yakubenkov: Experiments where you make your product worse — the most underrated product manager tool
Oleg Yakubenkov suggests turning the order of things upside-down.
Source: Experiments where you make your product worse — the most underrated product manager tool
Author: Oleg Yakubenkov
?? Product Mindset and Ownership in Scrum Teams
There is one product, one Product Owner, one Product Backlog — a simple rule. How is that supposed to scale, you might ask, isn’t that approach turning the Product Owner into the Scrum team’s bottleneck, impeding value creation rather than spearheading it? Well, cargo cult Scrum might end up in that dead-end. The trick to avoiding this fate is to start including the Development Team as early as possible in Product Backlog management which requires a product mindset.
Learn more about how to kick-off this process with an initial day-long product mindset workshop for your Scrum team.
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