Oct 4, 2019
Food for Agile Thought #212
Food for Agile Thought’s issue #212 delves into coach assessment options; we learn how to help teams out of being stuck in discussions, and we gain more insight into the challenges of moving from directive to supportive leadership.
We also embrace the qualities that impact mapping brings to product discovery; we appreciate a new approach to making product decisions, and we will stop ignoring our competition.
Lastly, we are grateful that someone asked the obvious question: Is ‘Agile’ keeping us too focused on ‘building stuff?’
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🏆 The Essential Read
Viktor Cessan: Temporal Dynamics — Coaching Teams Stuck In Discussion Gridlock
Viktor Cessan elaborates on what “temporal dynamics is, and how you can help a group that has gotten themselves stuck in a cycle of temporal oscillation.”
Source: Temporal Dynamics — Coaching Teams Stuck In Discussion Gridlock
Author: Viktor Cessan
Agile & Scrum
Len Lagestee: How to Assess an Organizational Change Coach
Coach assessment: Len Lagestee points at the ambiguity of the role of the change coach and the lack of a physical outcome to probe for quality.
Source: How to Assess an Organizational Change Coach
Author: Len Lagestee
Charles Lambdin (via Medium): Creating Value with the First Two Laws of Consulting
Charles Lambdin asks: Is ‘Agile’ keeping us too focused on ‘building stuff?’
Source: Medium: Creating Value with the First Two Laws of Consulting
Author: Charles Lambdin
(via Corporate Rebels): Stop Being A Manager: Start Being A Leader
Corporate Rebels reflect on walking the walk when it comes to moving from directive to supportive leadership.
Source: Corporate Rebels: Stop Being A Manager: Start Being A Leader
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Product & Lean
Tim Herbig (via ProductCraft): How to Stay on Course During Product Discovery
Tim Herbig delves into the advantages of impact mapping to avoid confirmation bias and predetermined solutions during product discovery.
Source: ProductCraft: How to Stay on Course During Product Discovery
Author: Tim Herbig
Laura Klein: A Framework for Making Better Product Decisions
Laura Klein advocates for a more disciplined approach to planning and review to improve learnings from mistakes.
Source: A Framework for Making Better Product Decisions
Author: Laura Klein
Marie Prokopets (via Product Habits): Why you shouldn’t ignore your competitors
Marie Prokopets challenges the widespread Silicon Valley practice of ignoring the competition because it has become too fierce.
Source: Product Habits: Why you shouldn’t ignore your competitors
Author: Marie Prokopets
Support the Design of the Agile Metrics Survey 2020
Usually, we start an initiative or project by defining what success would look like and how we would learn that we are successful. Which immediately points at metrics of all kinds. This approach is not different for any attempt to become agile, to turn into a learning organization — at least it should not be.
The question is which metrics have been proven to be successful in the past to support that approach. In other words: is there life beyond velocity?
I believe that real data also supports any agile transformation or whatever you like to call it. Hence I will run another survey from the end of October 2020 to collect that information: Who is using what agile metrics in which context to get a better understanding of how becoming agile is progressing within the organization in question?
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Food for Agile Thought #212: Temporal Dynamics, Coach Assessment, Impact Mapping, Mind Your Competition was first published on Age-of-Product.com.
