Food for Agile Thought #358: Scaling Innovation, #NoBacklogs, Studies on Cross-Functional Teams, Product Health?Check
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TL; DR: Agility: Scaling Innovation, #NoBacklogs — Food for Agile Thought?#358
Welcome to the 358th edition of the Food for Agile Thought newsletter, shared with 35,833 peers. This week, Steven Sinofsky analyzes the challenges of scaling innovation, delving into concepts, tools, culture, and change. Also, Allan “Nuke the backlog” Kelly delves into the current discussion regarding the Product Backlog’s usefulness. Furthermore, we analyze research papers on cross-functionality from Google Scholar and point to the moment when deteriorating software quality insects with a higher demand for new features.
Then, Wes Kao and Lenny Rachitsky cover how to engage your audience and improve your communication for product success. Moreover, we dissect aspects of product leadership, from strategic thinkers to the get-it-done thinkers, and we explain the negative consequences of employing SAFe? for product management, for example, its obsession with process.
Finally, we share Brad Dunn’s new approach to product management: replace the product manager role with a value manager and a discovery engineer. Additionally, we provide a concept of gathering health indicators to support better product decisions, plus a canvas to help you “avoid creating the right solution to the wrong problem.”
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?? The Tip of the Week: Scaling Innovation
Steven Sinofsky: Innovation in the Context of?Success
In this essay, Steven Sinofsky analyzes the challenges of scaling innovation, delving into concepts, tools, culture, and change.
Author:?Steven Sinofsky
? Agile &?Scrum
Allan Kelly: Backlogs, #NoBacklog(s) and comfort?blankets
Allan “Nuke the backlog” Kelly delves into the current discussion regarding the Product Backlog’s usefulness as a prelude to his talk on?September 5 at the 44th Hands-on Agile meetup.
Source:?Backlogs, #NoBacklog(s) and comfort blankets
Author:?Allan Kelly
Scott Middleton (via Terem Technologies): Cross-Functional Teams: A Summary of 20 Popular?Studies
Scott Middleton aggregated research papers on cross-functionality from Google Scholar with at least 115 and up to 1,265 citations.
Author:?Scott Middleton
(via Lithespeed): It’s Time to Reframe How We Think about Technical Debt
LitheSpeed opposes the idea that technical debt is always something negative. Instead, we should consider it a way to “convey the costs associated with deferred maintenance or investment in technology.”
Mario Caropreso (via Medium): The False Trade-off Between Quality and?Speed
Mario Caropreso analyzes the tipping point when deteriorating software quality insects with a higher demand for new features.
Author:?Mario Caropreso
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How can multiple teams work together on a single product? The common wisdom is to carefully align teams and responsibilities to create autonomous teams. But, invariably, this approach eventually runs into cross-team bottlenecks, challenges aligning responsibilities to teams, and difficulties creating cross-functional teams.
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?? Wes Kao and Lenny Rachitsky: Persuasive communication and managing?up
In this podcast, Wes Kao and Lenny Rachitsky cover how to engage your audience and improve your communication for product success.
Authors:?Wes Kao?and?Lenny Rachitsky
John Cutler: Navigating the Product Leadership Fog
John Cutler dissects aspects of product leadership, from strategic thinkers wondering whether there is a strategy in the first place to the get-it-done thinkers, convinced that the “leadership just keeps changing priorities.”
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Author:?John Cutler
Shaw Li: Why training in SAFe or scaling agile is wrong for PMs early in their?careers
Shaw Li explains the negative consequences of employing SAFe? for product management, for example, its obsession with process.
Author:?Shaw Li
?? Product Backlog Refinement: 14 First Principles
The Product Backlog refinement is a continuous process to create actionable Product Backlogs, enabling a Scrum Team to run Sprint Plannings at a moment’s notice. Consequently, refinement is about creating alignment among all team members about the Why, the What, the How, and probably even the Who regarding the upcoming work for the Scrum team’s Product Goal. As a result, Product Backlog refinement is a critical success factor as it drastically increases the team’s capability to deliver valuable Increments regularly.
The following 14 first principles describe in broad strokes the foundation of a successful approach to refinement.
Learn more:?Product Backlog Refinement: 14 First Principles.
?? Concepts, Tools & Measuring
Brad Dunn (via Medium): Bi-Directional Product Management
Brad Dunn shares his new approach to product management: replace the product manager role with a value manager and a discovery engineer.
Author:?Brad Dunn
Richard Holmes (via Department of Product): How to Conduct a Product Health?Check
Richard Holmes shares his concept of gathering health indicators to support better product decisions.
Author:?Richard Holmes
(via Medium): Data Product Canvas — A practical framework for building high-performance data?products
Leandro Carvalho created a canvas to help you “avoid creating the right solution to the wrong problem.”
Source:?Medium: Data Product Canvas — A practical framework for building high-performance data products
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(via XKCD Comic): Universe Price?Tiers
Everything has its price, even the big picture.
Source:?XKCD Comic: Universe Price Tiers
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