Some debts are not bad, or even good, like the debt we take on to get ourselves through university or other forms of education, or to buy our home. But not all debts are good. So is it ever a good idea to incur technical debt, deliberately? Even for short term? What can we learn from software craftsmanship movement that can help us get rid of our technical debt? How can tools, experience good practices help? Have a look.
Product Owner is “suffocating” the team, the Scrum Master says. “I don’t think my new Scrum Master is doing their job and I’m now carrying the entire team” says the Product Owner. What do you do? How do you help the Scrum Master and the Product Owner work together, as partners. What sort of questions should do you ask? Have a look.
Wouldn’t it be great if we are able to run a session where the team members collaborate with each other, and create an initial Product Backlog, without a facilitator, and without heated debates? Have you tried using silent collaboration? It’s inspired by Lyssa Adkin’s Silent Work Technique. Here’s how it works.
How many times have your heard someone in management say, the team is not delivering on its commitment? Why is the team not improving their velocity? How do they “know” the team is actually following Agile and Scrum, if the team is not sticking with “rules”? We know these are wrong questions to ask, right? How do we move away from these messy questions, and faux metrics? Here are some thoughts.
NPS, Net Promoter Score, is essentially a loyalty metric that quantifies how customers feel about your product. You can then lean what do about the issues that you discover. NPS provides consistent and measurable feedback, which is actionable. How can we use NPS to prioritise our backlog rather quickly? Here’s a quick primer on NPS and how to use it to prioritise work.
How Agile practices can help increase the productivity of a marketing team, and also increase retention? How to create adaptive campaigns, based on high tempo-testing and real market validation? How would an Agile marketing organisation look like? And how to setup emergency response and newsjacking team (Volkswagen, anyone)? Have a look.
Can we think of instances when it’d be useful to have some logic in data structures? So that our code would understand these data structures and interpret these. This would form the basis of an Adaptive model, where we can update the logic by refactoring data and without changing code. How so? Martin Fowler explains with an example.
Think about the best brands. Don’t they make life rather simple? What makes Google, Amazon or Netflix powerful? Why the new brands like Spotify, Warby Parker, Uber and Brubhub have done so well, so quickly? Is it just the simplicity, or something else also? What are some new battlegrounds for these big brands? Have a look.
AGILE
Why is Technical Debt a Bad Metaphor?
Some debts are not bad, or even good, like the debt we take on to get ourselves through university or other forms of education, or to buy our home. But not all debts are good. So is it ever a good idea to incur technical debt, deliberately? Even for short term? What can we learn from software craftsmanship movement that can help us get rid of our technical debt? How can tools, experience good practices help? Have a look.
ronjeffries.com
Scrum Master and PO as Leadership Partners
Product Owner is “suffocating” the team, the Scrum Master says. “I don’t think my new Scrum Master is doing their job and I’m now carrying the entire team” says the Product Owner. What do you do? How do you help the Scrum Master and the Product Owner work together, as partners. What sort of questions should do you ask? Have a look.
agileadvice.com
Silent Collaboration to Create initial Product Backlog
Wouldn’t it be great if we are able to run a session where the team members collaborate with each other, and create an initial Product Backlog, without a facilitator, and without heated debates? Have you tried using silent collaboration? It’s inspired by Lyssa Adkin’s Silent Work Technique. Here’s how it works.
tastycupcakes.org
Stop Obsessing Over Velocity
How many times have your heard someone in management say, the team is not delivering on its commitment? Why is the team not improving their velocity? How do they “know” the team is actually following Agile and Scrum, if the team is not sticking with “rules”? We know these are wrong questions to ask, right? How do we move away from these messy questions, and faux metrics? Here are some thoughts.
dzone.com/articles
PRODUCT OWNER
How to Use NPS to Prioritise Features?
NPS, Net Promoter Score, is essentially a loyalty metric that quantifies how customers feel about your product. You can then lean what do about the issues that you discover. NPS provides consistent and measurable feedback, which is actionable. How can we use NPS to prioritise our backlog rather quickly? Here’s a quick primer on NPS and how to use it to prioritise work.
blogs.atlassian.com
3 Stages Agile Marketing
How Agile practices can help increase the productivity of a marketing team, and also increase retention? How to create adaptive campaigns, based on high tempo-testing and real market validation? How would an Agile marketing organisation look like? And how to setup emergency response and newsjacking team (Volkswagen, anyone)? Have a look.
agilemarketing.net
DEVELOPER
How to Change Logic Without Changing Code?
Can we think of instances when it’d be useful to have some logic in data structures? So that our code would understand these data structures and interpret these. This would form the basis of an Adaptive model, where we can update the logic by refactoring data and without changing code. How so? Martin Fowler explains with an example.
martinfowler.com
GENERAL
Why Simple Brands Wins?
Think about the best brands. Don’t they make life rather simple? What makes Google, Amazon or Netflix powerful? Why the new brands like Spotify, Warby Parker, Uber and Brubhub have done so well, so quickly? Is it just the simplicity, or something else also? What are some new battlegrounds for these big brands? Have a look.
hbr.org/2015
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