Food for Agile Thought #159
Food for Agile Thought’s issue #159 covers the agile industrial complex and its fake-agile distortion field, according to Daniel Mezick, we kick-off new Scrum teams, and we advocate to manage the flow of work, not people.
We also appreciate another success story from the continuous product discovery field, supported by a proven & tested reference idea funnel, and ask: is Design Thinking merely preserving the status quo?
Lastly, we address agile sensemaking — a visualization of working and learning in a state of perpetual beta.
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🏆 The Essential Read
Daniel Mezick: The Agile Industrial Complex: People As Resources
Daniel Mezick claims that the whole community is meanwhile driven by money, selling a fake-Agile distortion field to executives.
Source: The Agile Industrial Complex: People As Resources
Author: Daniel Mezick
Agile & Scrum
Christiaan Verwijs (via The Liberators Network): We kick-started three Scrum Teams with this awesome string of Liberating Structures
Christiaan Verwijs details how he and his co-facilitator organized the kick-off of three brand-new Scrum teams.
Source: The Liberators: We kick-started three Scrum Teams with this awesome string of Liberating Structures
Author: Christiaan Verwijs
Harold Jarche: the agile sensemaking model
Harold Jarche believes that working and learning in perpetual beta — constant change while getting things done — requires agile sensemaking.
Source: the agile sensemaking model
Author: Harold Jarche
(via Agile Advice Blog): On Managing Work — Not People
James Steele advocates focussing on managing the flow of work to improve predictability and effectiveness, not the people involved.
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Product & Lean
Ash Maurya: The Idea Funnel — Love the Problem
Ash Maurya shares a reference idea funnel that he has run across bootstrappers, startups, and corporate innovation teams.
Source: The Idea Funnel — Love the Problem
Author: Ash Maurya
Teresa Torres (via Product Talk): Creating a Sustainable Continuous Discovery Practice at CarMax [Case Study]
Teresa Torres shares another success story from the product discovery field — CarMax.
Source: Product Talk: Creating a Sustainable Continuous Discovery Practice at CarMax [Case Study]
Author: Teresa Torres
(via Harvard Business Review): Design Thinking Is Fundamentally Conservative and Preserves the Status Quo
Natasha Iskander notes that design thinking privileges the designer above the people she serves, thus limiting participation in the design process.
Source: Harvard Business Review: Design Thinking Is Fundamentally Conservative and Preserves the Status Quo
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Food for Agile Thought #159: Agile Industrial Complex, Scrum Team Kick-off, Idea Funnel, Product Discovery was first published on Age-of-Product.com.
