Tag: Video

  • FAST Scaling: An Innovative Way to Scale Agile with James Shore — Hands-on Agile #45

    TL; DR: Hands-on Agile #45: FAST Scaling: An Innovative Way to Scale Agile with James Shore

    In this energizing 45th Hands-on Agile session, James Shore shared his experiences with scaling “agile:” first with traditional approaches and, more recently, with FAST scaling. Learn in this deep-dive what works, what doesn’t, and how you can try FAST in your organization.

    James Shore: FAST: An Innovative Way to Scale — Hands-on Agile #45 — Age-of-Product.com

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  • Jeff Gothelf: Outcome-Based Product Planning — Hands-on Agile 43

    TL; DR: HoA #43: Outcome-Based Product Planning w/ Jeff Gothelf

    In this energizing 43rd Hands-on Agile session on outcome-based product planning, Jeff Gothelf clarified one thing: “Roadmapping is a flawed concept in the age of Agile. Maps, by their definition, are linear, and we don’t build linear products and services anymore. We build continuous systems.” Learn more about what he considers product roadmap flaws and what you can do about them.

    Jeff Gothelf: Outcome-Based Product Planning — Hands-on Agile 43 — Berlin Product People GmbH

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  • No Sprint Goal, No Cohesion, No Collaboration — Making Your Scrum Work #26

    TL; DR: No Sprint Goal

    There are plenty of failure possibilities with Scrum. Given that Scrum is a framework with a reasonable yet short “manual,” this effect should not surprise anyone. For example, what if there is no Sprint Goal — Sprint after Sprint? What if the Scrum team is always only working on a random assortment of work items that seem to be the most pressing at the moment of the Sprint Planning?

    Join me and delve into the importance of the Sprint Goal for meaningful work as a Scrum team in less than two minutes.

    No Sprint Goal, No Cohesion, No Collaboration — Making Your Scrum Work #26 — Berlin Product People GmbH

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  • Unengaged Stakeholders at the Sprint Review — Making Your Scrum Work #25

    TL; DR: Unengaged Stakeholders

    There are plenty of failure possibilities with Scrum. Given that Scrum is a framework with a reasonable yet short “manual,” this effect should not surprise anyone. For example, what if your Scrum team repeatedly faces unengaged stakeholders at the Sprint Review? How can the Scrum team stay on track in accomplishing the Product Goal when a vital feedback loop is missing?

    Join me and delve into how to support your stakeholders in living up to their part of the collaboration with the Scrum team in less than two minutes.

    Unengaged Stakeholders at the Sprint Review — Making Your Scrum Work #25 — Berlin Product People GmbH

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  • Janna Bastow: Lean Roadmapping and OKRs — Hands-on Agile #42

    TL; DR: HoA #42: Lean Roadmapping and OKRs w/ Janna Bastow

    In this energizing 42nd Hands-on Agile Lean Roadmapping session, Janna Bastow, the go-to-authority on product roadmaps, talked about being lean while creating and maintaining your roadmap and how objectives and key results (OKR) may help meet that challenge.

    Janna Bastow: Lean Roadmapping and OKRs — Hands-on Agile #42 — Berlin Product People GmbH

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  • ???? Roman Pichler on the Product Owner at the 38th Hands-on-Agile Meetup

    TL; DR: HoA #38: Ask-Me-Anything w/ Roman Pichler: The Product Owner

    In this energizing 38th Hands-on Agile session, Roman Pichler delved into your questions on the role of the Product Owner. The topics range from product manager vs. Product Owner vs. business analyst to the right size of a Product Backlog to linking product vision to Product Goal and Sprint Goal.

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    Hands-on-Agile #38: AMA with Roman Pichler: The Product Owner — Berlin Product People GmbH

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  • The Frustrated Scrum Master — When all the Effort Leads Nowhere

    TL; DR: The Frustrated Scrum Master — When all the Effort Leads Nowhere

    There are plenty of failure possibilities with Scrum. Given that Scrum is a framework with a reasonable yet short “manual,” this effect should not surprise anyone. One failure symptom of a botched agile transformation is the frustrated Scrum Master.

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    The Frustrated Scrum Master — When all the Effort Leads Nowhere — Berlin Product People GmbH

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  • Why Scrum Requires a Failure Culture — Making Your Scrum Work #10

    TL; DR: Scrum Failure Culture: A Requirement to Be Successful

    There are plenty of failure possibilities with Scrum. Given that Scrum is a framework with a reasonable yet short “manual,” this effect should not surprise anyone. To make things worse, a crucial success factor of every Scrum team is not even mentioned in the Scrum Guide: Any organization that wants to employ Scrum to learn faster than its competitors needs to have a solid failure culture.

    ???? Join me and explore the consequences of not living a failure culture in less than three minutes.

    Scrum Failure Culture: A Requirement — Making Your Scrum Work #11 — Age-of-Product.com

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  • Three Wide-Spread Stakeholder Failures in 6:05 Minutes—Making Your Scrum Work #8

    TL; DR: Three Wide-Spread Stakeholder Failures

    There are plenty of Scrum stakeholder failures. Given that Scrum is a framework with a precise and concise yet short “manual,” this effect should not surprise anyone. While the Scrum Guide makes numerous references to stakeholders in Scrum, stakeholders themselves are no official role (accountability), no matter their crucial contribution to a Scrum team’s overall success.

    Explore with me three widespread examples of how stakeholders fail their Scrum teams in three short video clips, totaling 6 minutes and 5 seconds.

    Three Wide-Spread Stakeholder Failures in 6:05 Minutes—Making Your Scrum Work #8 — Berlin Product People GmbH

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  • Gold-Plating Beyond Done — Making Your Scrum Work #7

    TL; DR: Gold-Plating Beyond Done

    There are plenty of failure possibilities with Scrum. Given that Scrum is a framework with a reasonable yet short “manual,” this effect should not surprise anyone. However, creating Product Increments that “over-deliver” in scope or quality — also known as gold-plating — with regard to the previous refinement agreement demonstrates that the Developers need to acquire a more entrepreneurial mindset and embrace their responsibility.

    Join me and explore the reasons and the consequences of this Sprint anti-pattern in 109 seconds.

    Gold-Plating Beyond Done — Making Your Scrum Work #7 — Berlin Product People GmbH

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