Agilistas Newsletter N. III

At the end of last year we launched a Newsletter, you might think — Why? Well we had hundred of users that gave us some great feedback and wanted to share it with the community, we did a couple of blog posts here, here and here. But we wanted something more meaningful, so we gave them a place to curate articles, videos and conferences/meetups they love :)

But we also wanted you our Medium followers to view what they have shared with fellow Agile, Scrum and Kanban practiotioners.

Agile stories you should read.

Curated by Agile folks who care — this issue by the UX team.

Top Story

Generative User Research techniques.
Determine what your users want or whether they will like your new feature. Generative user research is a powerful tool that can help you understand your target users’ desires, expectations and lifestyle habits, taking the speculation out of product decisions and surfacing new customer opportunities.

Blog / By Invision.

Retrospectives in Confluence help your team’s communication — see how.

Trending
Product Owners don’t cut wood.

Should product owners be techies or domain experts? Should user stories be technically detailed or base for domain driven design? Some key questions to discuss in your team on the grooming sessions, where some interaction with the product owner is needed but sometimes might also get in the way. This post explores the role of a Product Owner in an agile team.

Blog / By Daniel Kirmse

Video
Productivity, remote work and focus with David Kadavy.

David Kadavy is author of the #18 Amazon best-selling book, Design for Hackers.

Prior to writing Design for Hackers, David led design at two Silicon Valley startups, freelanced for clients such as oDesk, PBworks, and UserVoice, and launched numerous startups of his own.

Video on Youtube / By DojoLive!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odDriVP8KYE

Infographic
A day in the life of a Product Owner.

We shared in this newsletter how to deal with product owners during a grooming session, now you can see what a Product Owners does in his day to day activities ;)

From 3Back Team

Conferences, workshops & meetups we ❤

February 7th — Atlassian User Group Agile Love — The group from Columbus(Ohio) is getting together to discuss about add-on’s and techniques for agile teams, do not miss it.

February 10th — KANBAN SIG Lean Coffee — Austin (Texas).
Join the Agile Austin community for a discussion about Kanban, Lean Coffee style.

February 14th — Biblioteca Ágil Ambulante (BAam) — Medellín (Colombia).
A mobile library from the Agiles Colombia group which travels around the country to spread the knowledge about agile methodologies.

March 28–29 — Agile Management Congress — Olomouc (Czech Republic).
At AMC managers can engage into intensive learning. No talks nor speeches! Through series of practical mini workshops, case studies and group work with peers may gain better inside into how agility can help them transform their business or daily routine.

Having some challenges estimating? Try a Scrum Poker add-on for HipChat, you will increase team collaboration ;)