The Agile Daily Standup - AgileDad

Learn with AgileDad as we explore an article published by Ted Bauer - Most Execs Don't Know What Strategy Is where we discover the importance of the Agile Press release and how the AgileDad Leadership Agility Playbook allows leaders to gain focus onto what is most important. 

What are the top 5 concerns every product backlog should address?  People: The agile team and stakeholders( how we can improve peer-to-peer communication, reduce stakeholders’ interference, improve the team morale, create a better working agreement, etc.) Product: The product Increment, features, bug fixes ( any issue needed to build, improve the actual product, etc.). Process: The agile approach, ceremonies, artifacts( How can we enhance our cycle time, reduce handoffs, reduce work in progress, reduce bugs in production, better definition of ready, etc.) Place: The team where it is placed to develop the product( How can we improve the workplace, less noise, more osmotic communication, more whiteboard, more light, have a quiet room., etc.). Production: Means of production (write scripts to improve the speed of the continuous delivery, purchase another IDE, get a new development machine, get a tool to automate the UI test, etc.).

As the story goes...  Carl is a Product Owner. He works with three Scrum Teams. He’s concerned about the productivity of one of the teams because the Velocity is lower than the Velocity from other teams. This is why he decides to raise this with Sarah, the Scrum Master. What does he do to solve the issue? 

Finally!! The team at MentorMate have acknowledged and discussed the differences between a PO and a BA and why BOTH are important to your Agile implementation.  https://mentormate.medium.com/product-owner-vs-business-analyst-the-importance-of-both-d813c31320d5

Are you quick to judge? How can we become a people with less bias and focus on the talents and gifts of others? Join V. Lee Henson for this uplifting episode where we formulate how the world can be a different better place. 

In this episode we review an article by John Hartley where he is petitioning for organizations to stop using velocity to measure teams. While I understand the intent of what John is proposing, I feel there must needs be a better way, such as... Using Velocity! 

Here are the top 3 things you should avoid saying as a PM:  1) Saying Yes Straightaway 2) Saying No Straightaway 3) Becoming a Taskmaster Without Context https://johnmicahreid.medium.com/3-things-to-avoid-saying-as-a-product-manager-4b0d37e9e56

Agile Burndown charts are the WORST! They force us to focus on output instead of outcome and or impact. Join V. Lee Henson as we discuss why this is an issue and what you can do to better track sprint progress. 

How does QA work in your organization? Are they a separate team? Do they assign a single individual to the team? Or are your teams completely cross-functional? Join V. Lee Henson as we explore how teams and QA should co-mingle and learn how QA is supposed to function. 

How can we spread more joy in this world that is filled with so much negativity? Tell a Dad joke.. AgileDad is VERY good at those.