Food for Agile Thought #407: The Costs of Agile, Product Decision Spectrum, The Ultimate JTBD Guide, Stakeholder Alignment
TL; DR: The Costs of Agile — Food for Agile Thought #407 Welcome to the 407th edition of the Food for Agile Thought newsletter, shared with 48,702 peers. This week, Matt Rickard offers invaluable leadership lessons from his aerospace design experiences; Henrik Mårtensson explores the overlooked facets of the costs of Agile, and Jeff Langr […]
SAFe® — Despised, Yet Successful?
TL; DR: SAFe® — Despised, Yet Successful? Many in the Agile community consider the Scaled Agile Framework designed by Dean Leffingwell and Drew Jemilo as unagile, violating the Agile Manifesto and the Scrum Guide. “True agilists” would never employ SAFe® to help transition corporations to agility. SAFe® is an abomination of all essential principles of “agility.” […]
Food for Agile Thought #408: Developer Productivity, Double Diamond Improvements, Defining Product Problems, Scrum a Failure by Design?
TL; DR: Developer Productivity — Food for Agile Thought #408 Welcome to the 408th edition of the Food for Agile Thought newsletter, shared with 48,813 peers. This week, Kent Beck and Gergely Orosz dispute McKinsey’s measure of developer productivity, underscoring the essence of tailored metrics. Dave West at Agile 2023 notes a perceived halt in […]
Join the Scrum Master Salary Report 2024 — Let Us Create Transparency
TL;DR: Scrum Master Salary Report 2024 — An Anonymous Poll by the Community for the Community The purpose of this anonymous Scrum Master salary report is to create a clear, data-backed benchmark that allows everyone in the Agile community to understand whether their compensation is adequate. The report will cover Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches, both […]
Food for Agile Thought #409: How to Be Unproductive, Customers Hate the MVP, Waterfall Misconceptions, Supporting Continuous Discovery
TL; DR: How to Be Unproductive — Food for Agile Thought #409 Welcome to the 409th edition of the Food for Agile Thought newsletter, shared with 48,883 peers. This week, we explore several provocative perspectives: John Cutler delves into factors affecting developer productivity, or: how to be unproductive, suggesting the environment plays a more substantial […]
Resistance to Agile Transformations: Reasons and How To Overcome Them
TL; DR: Resistance to Agile Transformations Stakeholders often revert to resistance to agile transformations due to fears about job security, perceived loss of control, comfort with established practices, and misconceptions about Agile. However, we can help: Agile practitioners can ease the change process by employing techniques such as empathetic listening, co-creating the change process, introducing […]
Food for Agile Thought #410: Best Product Teams, Communication in Low Trust, Killing Features, Stop Using ‘Failure’ When Learning
TL; DR: Best Product Teams — Food for Agile Thought #410 Welcome to the 410th edition of the Food for Agile Thought newsletter, shared with 49,013 peers. This week, Shane Parrish discusses with Shreyas Doshi the nuances of best product teams and product development; Charity Majors touches upon communication dynamics in strained relationships, emphasizing the […]
Wild West to the Agile Manifesto — Jim Highsmith at the 52. Hands-on Agile Meetup
TL; DR: Hands-on Agile #52: Jim Highsmith & the Agile Manifesto On August 17, 2023, we had the opportunity to interview Jim Highsmith about his path to agile product development: From Wild West to the co-authoring the Agile Manifesto. 📺 Watch the video now: Jim Highsmith & the Agile Manifesto — Hands-on Agile 52. 📖 […]
Food for Agile Thought #411: Team Diversity Problems, Marginal Users’ Tyranny, Useful Agile Mantras, Shared Understanding?
TL; DR: Team Diversity Problems — Food for Agile Thought #411 Welcome to the 411th edition of the Food for Agile Thought newsletter, shared with 49,134 peers. This week, Christiaan Verwijs and Daniel Russo scrutinize the complex relationship between team diversity and performance, pointing to team diversity problems. Emily Webber identifies three collaboration anti-patterns sabotaging […]
Extreme Project Management XPM
> “Extreme project management is the art and science of facilitating > and managing the flow of thoughts, emotions, and interactions in a > way that produces valued outcomes under turbulent and complex > conditions: those that feature high speed, high change, high > uncertainty, and high stress.” – Doug DeCarlo, author of eXtreme > Project Management > [https://www.amazon.com/eXtreme-Project-Management-Leadership-Principles/dp/0787974099] From the development of new technologies and shift in customer needs to economic conditions or some new groundbreaking ideas, several project requirements can change every day due to various circumstances. This is where extreme project management enters the game. Extreme projects are carried out in turbulent environments where […]