Food for Agile Thought #356: Decision-Making 2.0, North Star Template & Activity Library, Tesla's Agile?Success
Stefan Wolpers
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TL; DR: Decision-Making 2.0, Diamond of Participation — Food for Agile Thought?#356
Welcome to the 356th edition of the Food for Agile Thought newsletter, shared with 35,752 peers. This week, we will learn from psychologist Gary Klein how to improve decision-making, particularly as a team, from the benefits of pre-mortems and anonymous voting to the perils of consensus. Also, we detail Tesla’s approach to agility; we explain Sam Kaner et al.’s Diamond of Participation graphic for facilitators, and we encourage you to participate in the survey for the 16th State of Agile report.
Then, we delve into empathy as the superpower of successful product people, enabling the understanding of seemingly tricky stakeholders. Moreover, we suggest to stop “using ‘product market fit’ and instead focus on delivering value to your first ten customers,” and we applaud John Cutler for sharing the template & activity library for the North Star Framework. Following up on the interview with Gary Klein, we also suggest starting your product discovery journey with a pre-mortem: Imagine it is six months later and your product went south; what caused its failure?
Finally, we analyze commonalities and differences in product teams of Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and Google, only to return to a classic session from 2012: Marty Cagan shares lessons learned on building products that customers love.
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?? The Tip of the Week: Decision-Making 2.0
?? Gary Klein and Shane Parrish (via Farnam Street): Insights For Making Better Decisions #144
Shane Parrish interviews psychologist Gary Klein on how to improve decision-making, particularly as a team. They cover many issues, from the benefits of pre-mortems and anonymous voting to the perils of consensus.
Authors:?Gary Klein ?and?Shane Parrish
? Agile &?Scrum
Joe Justice: Tesla Agile?Success
Arnaud Viguié and Joe Justice detail Tesla’s approach to agility.
Source:?Tesla Agile Success
Author:?Joe Justice
Chris Corrigan: The Diamond of Participation
Chris Corrigan explains Sam Kaner et al.’s Diamond of Participation graphic to help you facilitate and improve your teams’ ways of decision making.
Source:?The Diamond of Participation
Author:?Chris Corrigan
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Roman Pichler: Empathy in Product Management
Roman Pichler delves into empathy as the superpower of successful product people, enabling the understanding of seemingly tricky stakeholders.
Source:?Empathy in Product Management
Author:?Roman Pichler
Daniel Elizalde: The Problem with Product Market Fit (and What to Use?Instead)
Daniel Elizalde suggests to stop “using ‘product market fit’ and instead focus on delivering value to your first ten customers.”
Author:?Daniel Elizalde
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?? Rich Mironov: Customers are more forgiving about roadmaps than sales?teams
In this podcast, Rich Mironov covers a broad spectrum of product roadmap-relates topics, from purpose to perspectives to product strategy.
Author:?Rich Mironov
?? Jeff Gothelf: Outcome-Based Product Planning — Hands-on Agile?43
In this energizing 43rd Hands-on Agile session on outcome-based product planning, Jeff Gothelf clarified one thing: “Roadmapping is a flawed concept in the age of Agile. Maps, by their definition, are linear, and we don’t build linear products and services anymore. We build continuous systems.” Learn more about what he considers product roadmap flaws and what you can do about them.
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?? Concepts, Tools & Measuring
John Cutler (via Amplitude): North Star Framework Template & Activity?Library
John Cutler shares the template & activity library for the North Star Framework.
Author:?John Cutler
Marcus Castenfors (via Crisp): This might just be the highest leverage Product Discovery activity that your team can?do
Marcus Castenfors suggest starting your product discovery journey with a pre-mortem: Imagine it is six months later and your product went south; what caused its failure?
Source:?Crisp: This might just be the highest leverage Product Discovery activity that your team can do
Author:?Marcus Castenfors
?? Encore
Itamar Gilad: Should We Work Like?FAANG?
Itamar Gilad analyses commonalities and differences in product teams of Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and Google.
Source:?Should We Work Like FAANG?
Author:?Itamar Gilad
?? Marty Cagan (via Mind The Product): Learnings from London: Marty Cagan on making products customers love
In this classic from 2012, Marty Cagan shares lessons learned on building products that customers love.
Author:?Marty Cagan
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