Aug 10, 2018
Food for Agile Thought #154
Food for Agile Thought’s issue #154 focuses on agile’s many faces, be it the progress of business agility, mob programming, or descaling the organization to ‘scale agile.’
We also have a look at Scrum.org’s brand-new advanced scrum master class, and share a reading tip — Jez Humble’s recent book on building and scaling high-performance technology organizations is eye-opening.
Lastly, we applaud Peter Casinelli who advocates that developers should conduct user tests, we learn six principles of modern product discovery, and we take to heart that no one is immune to cognitive bias.
Have a great week!
🏆 The Essential Read
(via Agility Health Radar): BAI Business Agility Report 2018
Agility Health Radar published the free BAI Business Agility Report 2018.
The survey found that most organizations rate their current business agility fluency relatively low, but have enthusiasm and hope for the future.
Source:Agility Health Radar: BAI Business Agility Report 2018
Agile’s Many Faces
Barry Overeem (via Scrum.org): The Making Of The Brand-New Professional Scrum Master II class
Barry Overeem looks back the creation process of Scrum.org’s new PSM II class — dog-foodism at work.
Source: Scrum.org: The Making Of The Brand-New Professional Scrum Master II class
Author: Barry Overeem
Jacqueline Emigh (via SD Times): The many faces of Agile
Jacqueline Emigh describes four emerging agile trends, from mob programming to XSCALE Alliance’s ‘descaling the organization.’
Source: SD Times: The many faces of Agile
Author: Jacqueline Emigh
John Cutler (via Hackernoon): The Manager and the Change Agent
John Cutler urges change agents to be crystal clear about what they stand for to make the management understand their needs.
Source: Medium: The Manager and the Change Agent
Author: John Cutler
📯 Accelerate: Building and Scaling High-Performing Technology Organizations [Review]
Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim latest book Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations describes the factors that drive high-performing tech organizations, derived from the data that has been aggregated with the State of DevOps Report since 2014.
Read more: Accelerate: Building and Scaling High-Performing Technology Organizations [Review].
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Product & Lean
Teresa Torres (via Product Talk): 6 Guiding Principles for Effective Product Discovery
Teresa Torres distilled her product discovery process down to six fundamental principles.
Source: Product Talk: 6 Guiding Principles for Effective Product Discovery
Author: Teresa Torres
Peter Casinelli (via Appcues): Why Every Engineer Should User Test
Peter Casinelli advocates ingraining empathy into almost every decision the product and engineering team makes.
Source: Appcues: Why Every Engineer Should User Test
Author: Peter Casinelli
Cindy Alvarez (via Mind The Product): Cognitive Biases & The Questions you Shouldn’t be Asking
Cindy Alvarez reminds us in this video that no one is immune to cognitive biases.
Source: Mind The Product: Cognitive Biases & The Questions you Shouldn’t be Asking
Author: Cindy Alvarez
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