Food for Agile Thought #285: Taleb’s ‘Antifragile,’ Agile Meets Beyond Budgeting, Product Management Design Partnership, Managing Ideas at Scale
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TL; DR: Agile Meets Beyond Budgeting, Managing Ideas at Scale — Food for Agile Thought #285
Welcome to the 285th edition of the Food for Agile Thought newsletter, shared with 30,736 peers. This week, we delve into Nassim Taleb’s ‘Antifragile.’ Also, we detail why Agile meets Beyond Budgeting may represent two roads to the same end: creating greater business agility. Additionally, we point at the importance of questioning our knowledge and opinions in the face of new evidence.
We then enjoy the Head of Design at Stripe’s deep dive into the ideal collaboration between design and product management. Moreover, we share the fundamental principles to enable ideation and innovation at scale, from accessibility to simplicity to discoverability and innovators’ community, and we suggest four ways to track product discovery efforts.
Lastly, we learn how a team can use internal data to create usable forecasts, thus inspiring trust among stakeholders by improving predictions’ quality.
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Scott Alexander: Book Review: Summary and commentary on Nassim Taleb’s ‘Antifragile’
Scott Alexander summarizes and comments on Nassim Taleb’s ‘Antifragile.’
Source: Book Review: Summary and commentary on Nassim Taleb’s ‘Antifragile’
Author: Scott Alexander
? Agile Meets Beyond Budgeting & Scrum
Bjarte Bogsnes et al (via Boston Consulting Group): Agile Meets Beyond Budgeting
In this article, Martin Danoesastro, Bjarte Bogsnes, and Sebastian Strange detail why Agile and Beyond Budgeting may represent two roads to the same end: creating greater business agility.
Source: Boston Consulting Group: Agile Meets Beyond Budgeting
Author: Bjarte Bogsnes
Adam Grant (via Greater Good): Why Thinking Like a Scientist Is Good for You
In this interview, organizational psychologist Adam Grant explains the importance of questioning our knowledge and opinions in the face of new evidence — empiricism at work.
Source: Greater Good: Why Thinking Like a Scientist Is Good for You
Author: Adam Grant
John Cutler: Breaking the Wicked Loop
John Cutler describes how fatigue and a drop in decision quality under stress result in low team morale that will harm collaboration. He also suggests how to reset: Rest and ‘work super small with less pressure for results.’
Source: Breaking the Wicked Loop
Author: John Cutler
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Katie Dill: The PM ?? Design Partnership
In this guest post, Katie Dill — Head of Design at Stripe — dives deep into the ideal collaboration between design and product management.
Source: The PM ?? Design Partnership
Authors: Lenny Rachitsky and Katie Dill
George Krasadakis (via UX Collective): Managing Ideas at Scale
George Krasadakis shares the fundamental principles to enable ideation and innovation at scale, from accessibility to simplicity to discoverability and innovators’ community.
Source: UX Collective: Managing Ideas at Scale
Author : George Krasadakis
(via productboard): 4 steps to measure the impact of product discovery
In this excerpt from the “The Product Discovery Playbook” ebook, the Productboard team suggests four ways to track product discovery efforts. The ebook is available for free.
Source: productboard: 4 steps to measure the impact of product discovery
?? Tools & Measuring
Michael Mahlberg and Johanna Rothman (via Agile Alliance): Explain Dates to Anyone with Forecasts Based on Your Historical Data
In this article, Michael Mahlberg and Johanna Rothman address how a team can use internal data to create usable forecasts, thus inspiring trust among stakeholders by improving predictions’ quality.
Source: Agile Alliance: Explain Dates to Anyone with Forecasts Based on Your Historical Data
Authors: Michael Mahlberg and Johanna Rothman
Blake Blanchard (via Optimizely Blog): Get More Wins: Experimentation Metrics for Program Success
Blake Blanchard introduces three metrics that help you understand your experiments’ quality, from test velocity to conclusive rate to win rate.
Source: Optimizely Blog: Get More Wins: Experimentation Metrics for Program Success
Author: Blake Blanchard
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