Food for Agile Thought #243
TL; DR: Agile Training Wheels, Adoption & Maturity — Food for Agile Thought #243
Welcome to the 243rd edition of the Food for Agile Thought newsletter, shared with 26,567 peers.
This week, we make the case to get the agile training wheels off; we deal with widespread confusion among experienced agilists, and we approve of a comprehensive list of remote team building activities.
We also delve into the nasty evolution of tricky user interfaces; we come back to envisioning the (product) future, resulting in feature factories, and we deal with the need for delegation.
Lastly, we get to the bottom of Zoom fatigue and how we can compensate for the effect.
Did you miss last week’s Food for Agile Thought’s issue #242?
🏆 The Tip of the Week: Agile Training Wheels
Mary Poppendieck: What’s Wrong With Training Wheels?
Mary Poppendieck advocates getting off the agile training wheels and thus enabling resilience, adaptability, and rapid responses.
Source: What’s Wrong With Training Wheels?
Author: Mary Poppendieck
Agile & Scrum
Matt Philip: Don’t mistake adoption patterns for maturity patterns
Matt Philip points at a widespread confusion even among experienced agilists: that there is a sequence of adoption.
Source: Don’t mistake adoption patterns for maturity patterns
Author: Matt Philip
(via SessionLab): 33 remote team building activities to improve team development
James Smart shares a comprehensive list of activities to create and nurture distributed high performing teams.
Source: SessionLab: 33 remote team building activities to improve team development
Libby Sander (via TED Talks): Zoom fatigue is real — here’s why video calls are so draining
Libby Sanders explains the cognitive science behind video conferencing’s draining effect and what you can do about it.
Source: TED Talks: Zoom fatigue is real — here’s why video calls are so draining
Author: Libby Sander
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Product & Lean
(via ACM Queue): Dark Patterns: Past, Present, and Future
Arvind Narayanan and colleagues share their take on the evolution of tricky user interfaces.
John Cutler: ‘Vision’ and Prescriptive Roadmaps
John Cutler reflects on the implications of envisioning the future, manifesting that vision in a product roadmap, and what selling ‘outcomes’ has to do with it.
Source: ‘Vision’ and Prescriptive Roadmaps
Author: John Cutler
Rich Mironov: Delegation for Product Leaders
Rich Mironov delves into a product leader’s need to delegate decision-making as well as execution.
Source: Delegation for Product Leaders
Author: Rich Mironov
🔬 Good Remote Agile Practices — First Insights from the Survey
The first insights are available from the Remote Agile Survey: What are good remote agile practices, and what are possible low-hanging fruits that haven’t yet been tried by a majority of participants? Moreover, we learn if new collaboration practices have been tested and if so what those are.
Learn more: Good Remote Agile Practices — First Insights from the Survey.
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