Food for Agile Thought #332: Talking to Customers, The Learning Repository, Team Dependencies
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TL; DR: Talking to Customers, Learning Repository — Food for Agile Thought?#332
Welcome to the 332nd edition of the Food for Agile Thought newsletter, shared with 34,681 peers. This week, we regret that most product managers seem to have stopped talking to customers nowadays. Also, we list nine reasons to become agile, from a bad ‘it’s the trendy thing to do’ to a good ‘we believe in the Agile values and principles.’ Moreover, we deal with fixing unnecessary dependencies, and we suggest utilizing seven classic team building models to ‘inspire, troubleshoot, and build alignment,’ from Tuckman to Katzenbach to Hackman.
We then argue that it is essential to create a learning repository to run experience-informed experiments, and we share an epic list of binge-worthy material on product ownership. In addition to that, Teresa Torres provides her approach to identifying candidates for both “beginner” and experienced product teams for user interviews.
Lastly, we share a simple visualization tool to foster rapid idea generation — quantity may have its own quality, and we follow Jeff Gothelf, who vigorously opposes the notion that goals do not need continuous review and adjustment. And there is one more thing: The Guardian reports on a damning new Netflix documentary, detailing the consequences when a once engineering- and quality-driven culture is forced by the new management to bow to Wall Street.
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Brad Dunn (via Medium): The Great Silence: Why have Product Managers stopped speaking to customers?
Brad Dunn regrets that nowadays, most product managers no longer seem to talk to customers.
Author:?Brad Dunn
? Agile &?Scrum
Mario Moreira: Good and Bad Reasons for Moving to?Agile
Mario Moreira lists nine reasons to become agile, from a bad ‘it’s the trendy thing to do’ to a good ‘we believe in the Agile values and principles.’
Author:?Mario Moreira
Johanna Rothman: See and Resolve Team Dependencies
Johanna Rothman created a short article series on fixing unnecessary dependencies. This article addresses the outside architect or (chief) product person.
Author:?Johanna Rothman
(via Atlassian): What strong teamwork looks like: 7 proven?models
Kat Boogaard suggests utilizing seven classic team building models to ‘inspire, troubleshoot, and build alignment,’ from Tuckman to Katzenbach to Hackman.
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(via Convert.com): You Need an A/B Testing Learning Repository to Run Experience-Informed Experiments (Experts?Say)
Trina Moitra, Daniel Daines Hutt, and Uwemedimo Usa argue that it is essential to create a learning repository if you want to run experience-informed experiments.
Andy Cleff: A Working List of Resources for Product?Owners
Andy Cleff aggregated an epic list of binge-worthy material on product ownership.
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Author:?Andy Cleff
Teresa Torres: Ask Teresa: How Do You Select Customers for Customer Interviews?
Teresa Torres provides her approach to identifying candidates for both “beginner” and experienced product teams for user interviews.
Author:?Teresa Torres
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?? Tools & Measuring
Paulo Caroli: Crazy?Eights
Paulo Caroli shares a simple visualization tool to foster rapid idea generation — quantity may have its own quality.
Source:?Crazy Eights
Author:?Paulo Caroli
Jeff Gothelf: OKRs are not ‘Set it and forget?it!’
Jeff Gothelf vigorously opposes the notion that goals do not need continuous review and adjustment.
Author:?Jeff Gothelf
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(via The Guardian): ‘All those agencies failed us’: inside the terrifying downfall of?Boeing
The Guardian reports on a damning new Netflix documentary, detailing the consequences when a once engineering- and quality-driven culture is forced by the new management to bow to Wall Street.
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