Food for Agile Thought #255: Serendipity-Driven Innovation, Biases at Work, A Guide to Working w/ Yourself, Product Leadership Lessons
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TL; DR: Serendipity-Driven Innovation, Biases at Work — Food for Agile Thought #255
Welcome to the 255th edition of the Food for Agile Thought newsletter, shared with 26,874 peers. This week, we embrace serendipity-driven innovation; we analyze the secret work of cognitive biases, and we delve deeper into Amazon’s “disagree but commit” principle.
We then figure out how to lift the collaboration between product and engineering to the next level; we enjoy product leadership lessons from the UK’s Ministry of Justice digital team, and we promise to replace old-fashioned product requirement documents.
Lastly, we consider creating a user manual for ourselves to improve communication with our teammates.
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?? The Tip of the Week: Serendipity-Driven Innovation
?? Liz Keogh (via InfoQ): Managing for Serendipity
Liz Keogh looks at how innovation often happens through unexpected side-effects, allowing new ideas to emerge.
Source: InfoQ: ?? Managing for Serendipity
Author: Liz Keogh
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Agile & Scrum
Christiaan Verwijs (via The Liberators): In-Depth: How Biases Easily Distort Our Beliefs (In The Workplace)
Christiaan Verwijs delves into the secret life of eight cognitive and social biases and their impact.
Source: The Liberators: In-Depth: How Biases Easily Distort Our Beliefs (In The Workplace)
Author: Christiaan Verwijs
Julie Zhuo: A User Guide To Working With You
Julie Zhuo describes her take on creating a user manual for yourself.
Source: A User Guide To Working With You
Author: Julie Zhuo
(via TechTello): Agree To Disagree vs Disagree And Commit: How To Disagree The Right Way
Vinita Bansal points at why “agree to disagree” does not work and advocates for an alternative.
Source: TechTello: Agree To Disagree vs Disagree And Commit: How To Disagree The Right Way
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Product & Lean
Gergely Orosz: Ask the EM: How Can I work Better with My Product Manager, as an Engineering Lead?
Gergely Orosz details what a healthy a product/engineering relationship looks like and suggests steps on how to get there.
Source: Ask the EM: How Can I work Better with My Product Manager, as an Engineering Lead?
Author: Gergely Orosz
Jock Busuttil: 5 product leadership lessons learnt from the UK’s Ministry of Justice Digital team
Jock Busuttil shares lessons learned from digital transformations and working with autonomous, empowered delivery teams.
Source: 5 product leadership lessons learnt from the UK’s Ministry of Justice Digital team
Author: Jock Busuttil
David Wang (via Product Coalition): How To Write Product Requirements That People Would Read
David Wang proposes a different way of creating actionable product requirements.
Source: Product Coalition: How To Write Product Requirements That People Would Read
Author: David Wang
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