Food for Agile Thought #262
TL; DR: Product Management Dysfunctions, Play SHIP IT — Food for Agile Thought #262
Welcome to the 262nd edition of the Food for Agile Thought newsletter, shared with 27,421 peers. This week, we delve into product management dysfunctions; we revisit our video, light, and audio gear to improve our remote presence, and we turn to change agency from the sustainability perspective.
We then embrace a free product management game as well as empathy to build better products, and we analyze a nerdy topic: why do we waste most efforts in the product analytics field?
Lastly, we are grateful to add another twelve icebreakers to our toolbox.
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🏆 The Tip of the Week
Rajesh Nerlikar and Ben Foster (via Mind The Product): Build What Matters
In this excerpt from their new book ‘Build What Matters,’ Rajesh Nerlikar and Ben Foster describe the top ten dysfunctions in product management.
Source: Mind The Product: Build What Matters
Authors: Rajesh Nerlikar and Ben Foster
Ben Kuhn: How to make video calls almost as good as face-to-face
Ben Kuhn spends too much time fiddling with gear and software — and it pays.
Source: How to make video calls almost as good as face-to-face
Author: Ben Kuhn
John Cutler: 10 Tips for Sustainable Change Agency
John Cutler shares some quick tips — learned the hard way, of course — on sustainable change agency.
Source: 10 Tips for Sustainable Change Agency
Author: John Cutler
Jeff Gothelf: 12+ Icebreakers to kick off your next zoom meeting
Jeff Gothelf curated a crowdsourced list of exercises to warm the participants of your next remote meeting, workshop, or class.
Source: 12+ Icebreakers to kick off your next zoom meeting
Author: Jeff Gothelf
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Product Management Dysfunctions & Lean
🎯 Paul Ford (via Postlight): SHIP IT! The Game of Product Management
Download for free Postlight’s first game on the trials and tribulations of shipping software.
Source: Postlight: 🎯 SHIP IT! The Game of Product Management
Author: Paul Ford
📺 (via Mind The Product): Walk a Mile in Their Shoes
In this video, Egan Cheung — Director of Product at Shopify — , shares thoughts on fostering empathy.
Crystal Widjaja (via Reforge): Why most analytics efforts fail
A nerdy topic: Crystal Widjaja provides a step-by-step process to fix most event analytics mistakes’ root causes.
Source: Reforge: Why most analytics efforts fail
Author: Crystal Widjaja
📯 20 Questions from New Scrum Master to Product Owner
From Scrum Master to Product Owner, this set of questions addresses the future collaboration between the two individuals and the rest of the Scrum Team. The questions have been modeled after some basic principles, that high performing teams have in common. Download a printable template for your convenience.
Learn more: 20 Questions from New Scrum Master to Product Owner.
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Food for Agile Thought #262: Product Management Dysfunctions, Play SHIP IT, Change Agency, Walking in Other People’s Shoes was first published on Age-of-Product.com.
