Food for Agile Thought #241: Scrum’s Essence, the New New Scrum Master, Six Product Owner Types, Roadmaps in JTBD
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TL; DR: Scrum’s Essence, the New New Scrum Master — Food for Agile Thought #241
Welcome to the 241st edition of the Food for Agile Thought newsletter, shared with 26,408 peers. This week, we brush up our understanding of Scrum’s essence; we indulge ourselves in collective wisdom regarding Scrum’s first principles, and we embrace a state that nowadays is more important than ever — trust, leading to psychological safety.
We also analyze Product Owner roles — there are six of them — ; we enjoy an inside view at Amazon’s culture, and we reflect about roadmaps, design problems, and testing assumptions within the Jobs-to-be-done framework.
Lastly, we come back to the Scrum Master role and learn how working with distributed teams requires to rethink it.
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?? The Tip of the Week: Scrum’s Essence
Bas Vodde (via LeSS): The Essence of Scrum
In this article, requiring a minute of reading time, Bas Vodde summarizes the nature of Scrum: pursuing satisfied customers.
Source: LeSS: The Essence of Scrum
Author: Bas Vodde
Agile & Scrum
?? Gunther Verheyen: A Few Things Every Scrum Practitioner Should Know
In this video, Gunther Verheyen reads from his book ’97 Things Every Scrum Practitioner Should Know.’
Source: ?? A Few Things Every Scrum Practitioner Should Know
Author: Gunther Verheyen
Barry Overeem (via The Liberators): Experiments, Practices, and Strategies for being a Remote Scrum Master
Barry Overeem suggests how to rethink your role as a Scrum Master in these days.
Source: The Liberators: Experiments, Practices, and Strategies for being a Remote Scrum Master
Author: Barry Overeem
?? Steven Limmer (via InfoQ): Make It Safe! Psychological Safety for You and Your Teams
Steven Limmer discusses the common issues with ‘Agile,’ and how this has led to failure and mistrust.
Source: InfoQ: ?? Make It Safe! Psychological Safety for You and Your Teams
Author: Steven Limmer
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Product & Lean
Roman Pichler: Six Types of Product Owners
Roman Pichler describes six typical PO roles, how they related to each other, and how you can effectively apply them.
Source: Six Types of Product Owners
Author: Roman Pichler
?? Adrian Swinscoe: Customer experience, innovation, artificial intelligence, culture….a look inside Amazon
Adrian Swinscoe interviews Claire Whitaker for an inside look at Amazon’s culture.
Source: ?? Customer experience, innovation, artificial intelligence, culture….a look inside Amazon
Author: Adrian Swinscoe
Jim Kalbach (via A List Apart): Jobs To Be Done
Jim Kalbach shares the ‘Designing Value’ chapter from ‘The Jobs To Be Done Playbook:’ Roadmaps, design problems, and testing assumptions.
Source: A List Apart: Jobs To Be Done
Author: Jim Kalbach
?? Remote Agile (Part 8): Daily Scrum with Distributed Teams
We started this series on remote agile with looking into practices and tools; we explored virtual Liberating Structures, and how to master Zoom. We had a look at common remote agile anti-patterns; we analyzed remote Retrospectives, Sprint Plannings as well as remote Sprint Reviews based on Liberating Structures. This eighth article now looks into supporting a distributed Development Team organizing a remote Daily Scrum.
Read more: Remote Agile (Part 8): Daily Scrum with Distributed Teams.
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