Food for Agile Thought #323: Fortress Agile, The Technical PM, Why We Behave the Way We Do, Influence Mapping & Product Mindset
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TL; DR: Fortress Agile, The Technical PM — Food for Agile Thought #323
Welcome to the 323rd edition of the Food for Agile Thought newsletter, shared with 33,816 peers. This week, we share practical tips on caring for the humans in your team when the organization is less agile than we would need it to be. Additionally, we share Charlie Munger’s magnum opus on why we behave the way we do, and we point to an observation that failure cultures focus on delivering things instead of value.
We then provide five highly actionable tips on becoming a more technical product manager. Moreover, we share successful product-led development patterns, and we ask: Do You Have a Product Mindset?
Lastly, we appreciate the first of a series of articles on becoming good at influence mapping, and we point at the elephant in the room: What if — despite all efforts — customer behavior isn’t moving in the right direction?
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?? Cheryl Hammond?and?Heidi Musser?(via?Agile Alliance): Fortress Agile: Nurturing and Growing Healthy Practices in a Hostile Environment
In this video from the Agile MiniCon, Cheryl Hammond and Heidi Musser share practical tips on caring for the humans in your team when the organization is less agile than we would need it to be.
Source: Agile Alliance: ?? Fortress Agile: Nurturing and Growing Healthy Practices in a Hostile Environment
Authors: Cheryl Hammond ?and?Heidi Musser
? Agile & Scrum
(via?Farnam Street):?Psychology of Human Misjudgment (Transcript) by Charlie Munger
Farnam Street shares Charlie Munger’s magnum opus on why we behave the way we do.
Jon Fazzaro?(via?Industrial Logic):?The Simplest Thing That Could Possibly Work
Jon Fazzaro provides food for thought on agility.
Author: Jon Fazzaro
Chris Matts:?Failureship Deliver Things instead of Value
Chris Matts points to an observation that failure cultures focus on delivering things instead of value.
Author: Chris Matts
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Justin Gage (via Lenny Rachitsky):?The Top 5 Things PMs Should Know about Engineering
Justin Gage shares highly actionable tips on becoming a more technical product manager in this guest post.
Author: Lenny Rachitsky
?? Martin Alaimo?and?Kevin Stevens?(via?Agile Alliance):?Product-led Agility: Moving beyond Feature Delivery to Define Success
In this video from the Agile MiniCon, Martin Alaimo and Kevin Stevens share successful product-led development patterns.
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Authors: Martin Alaimo ?and?Kevin Stevens
Marc Abraham:?Do You Have a Product Mindset?
Marc Abraham shares four critical elements of a product mindset, from customer (centricity) to creativity.
Source: Do You Have a Product Mindset?
Author: Marc Abraham
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SAFe? has always been a controversial topic within the agile community. Therefore, back in 2017, I ran a survey on the Net Promoter Score? of the Scaled Agile Framework SAFe?. The?result back then was -52 . Four and a half years later, I believe it is time to rerun the poll: SAFe? has been through several iterations, and many more agile practitioners have experienced working with it. Moreover, the question still is: Would you recommend SAFe ??
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?? Tools & Measuring
Charles Lambdin:?Influence Mapping (Part 1)
Charles Lambdin published the first of a series of articles on becoming good at influence mapping.
Source: Influence Mapping (Part 1)
Author: Charles Lambdin
Jeff Gothelf:?What if Your OKRs Are Wrong?
Jeff Gothelf points at the elephant in the room: What if —?despite all efforts —?customer behavior isn’t moving in the right direction?
Source: What if Your OKRs Are Wrong?
Author: Jeff Gothelf
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(via?nature):?Conference Demographics and Footprint Changed by Virtual Platforms
Nature shares study results pointing at the advantages of virtual scientific and engineering conferences regarding improving diversity, equity, and inclusion.
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2 年Thanks for the shout-out! Looking forward to feedback from the community :)