James Shore

JANUARY 12, 2023

And what better way to refresh that teamwork than with the Agile Fluency Game? I’m happy to announce that I am now offering in-person and remote workshops featuring the Agile Fluency Game. About the Agile Fluency Game. The Agile Fluency Game is a fun and thought-provoking exercise for team members, managers, and executives.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

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The Agile Manager

AUGUST 31, 2021

This all seems different in Agile. Management appears to be well integrated in Agile teams, not an overhead, nuisance, or encumbrance as it is in traditional project management. What is it that makes Agile management different from traditional management?

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Martin Fowler

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

I would avoid any artificial “team building” exercises, if only because of how much I hate them. These generated the practices I describe in Using an Agile Software Process with Offshore Development. We should then include what feels like too much time for breaks, informal chatter, and opportunities to step outside the office.

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The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2025

Giving AI tools to people who are unable to assess fitness for purpose of the output those tools produce will not increase labor productivity. A product manager who is not knowledgeable in the domain cannot exercise the one decision right a product manager is required to exercise: prioritization.

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Codegiant

AUGUST 14, 2020

Agile vs Scrum: Differences & Similarities?—?The The Complete Review [2020] From the desk of a brilliant weirdo #1 : If you are using Scrum it’s safe to say that you are also using Agile. On the other hand, if you are using an Agile framework, that may not necessarily be Scrum. Without further ado: What Is Agile (Overview)?

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Cloudera

AUGUST 12, 2021

The report went on to say that in a post COVID landscape, manufacturing operations, in particular around intelligently managing supply chains, would be required to free up capital for future investment. . Data enables Innovation & Agility.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

MAY 14, 2020

How do organizations actually work with Agile? In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus and his guest, Allen Holub, discuss what organizations get wrong about Agile. Allen has been an Agile transformation consultant for nearly 40 years and has seen the best and worst it has to offer. Why Agile is failing (3:55).

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James Shore

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Cargo Cult Agile. Okay, you’re Agile now,” your manager says, before vanishing in a puff of golf-scented smoke. To avoid these sorts of delays and errors, Agile teams are cross-functional whole teams.

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Modus Create

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Daily standups are perhaps the most well-known of all agile meetings. In the “Walk the Board” technique, the development team runs daily standups by walking through each work item displayed on the product management board. That’s a likely anti-pattern that brings us back to legacy management methods and not Agile.

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Gorilla Logic

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

When it comes to PI planning using a scaled Agile framework, some of the main questions people have are: . • Isn’t the point of Agile to be more flexible, plan constantly, and in iterations? . It is always better to invest a little more time during this exercise, as it could be the difference between a good plan and a bad one. .

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

JUNE 22, 2022

Too often the answer is, “ To be Agile ”. The problem, of course, is Agility is not the goal, it’s the outcome of improving the system. Then I ask who was involved in creating this “why” and the answer is usually “Management”. We’re trying to reinforce that all aspects of an Agile work world can be self-organizing.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

**Step 2: Improve Your Footwork and Agility** Good footwork is essential for getting into position to hit shots and covering the court. Practice shuffling, sliding, and turning to improve your agility and reaction time. Incorporate exercises like ladder drills and cone drills into your training to enhance your foot speed and agility.

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Gorilla Logic

JANUARY 31, 2019

Many organizations shy away from scaling Agility or conducting robust Program Increment (PI) Planning because of remote teams. The solution: Conduct remote PI Planning using Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe®). Six primary stakeholders consult with train leadership on the train’s product and architectural roadmap. Project Context.

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James Shore

MAY 12, 2022

This is an excerpt from The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition. The full text of this section is available below, courtesy of the Art of Agile Development book club ! Join us on Fridays from 8-8:45am Pacific for wide-ranging discussions about Agile. Product Managers, Whole Team. Buy it now! Details here.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

JUNE 21, 2022

Too often the answer is, To be Agile . The problem, of course, is Agility is not the goal, its the outcome of improving the system. Then I ask who was involved in creating this why and the answer is usually Management. Were trying to reinforce that all aspects of an Agile work world can be self-organizing.

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Accenture

JUNE 14, 2018

With our recent webinar on Agile product management as an enabler of product innovation, we wanted to dispel some common misconceptions about innovation. People, they form teams on their own and they stay up all night, and they rock something out, and it’s a fantastic exercise, but it is just that.

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Modus Create

MARCH 21, 2019

While different teams will have different roles, a typical software team might look something like this: Product Managers. Highly collaborative exercises like group brainstorming can be challenging if your team hasn’t yet embraced a collaborative culture. User Experience Designers. Visual Designers. User Researchers.

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RapidValue

JANUARY 12, 2020

Some of the immediate value additions of outsourcing work are as follows: Knowledge Sharing – For a client who was a new entrant to the IT industry, we could add a lot of value additions by sharing their knowledge and expertise in product management and cross-functional engagements.

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Gorilla Logic

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Just about a year ago, my colleagues and I wrote a blog post about our experiences using the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and Remote Program Increment (PI) Planning for a new Gorilla Logic customer. We are officially in the middle of our fifth consecutive quarter using the Scaled Agile Framework and more pointedly, remote PI Planning.

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James Shore

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Agile feels much the same either way, you muse to yourself, despite differences in the details. Speaking of product direction, today is demo day. Second Edition cover. Your feedback is appreciated!

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James Shore

DECEMBER 3, 2020

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. It’s just for team members and people who work closely with the team, such as a product manager. Remember, few decisions are irrevocable in Agile; mistakes are opportunities to learn and improve.

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James Shore

JUNE 16, 2021

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Productivity went way up and defects went way down. Hanna, your product manager, was having trouble keeping up. Not only that, she got permission to try “the Agile experiment.”. Second Edition cover.

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Praxent

MAY 30, 2019

On agile development teams, work is done in “sprints” where the project is broken down into more manageable chunks. Dividing work into sprints not only helps developers focus on quality with each feature, it also allows them to deliver finished products to clients in increments.

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Codegiant

AUGUST 20, 2020

Big credits to Stefan Wolper , an agile coach, and his ebook about Scrum Masters. Without further ado: Scrum Master Role & Responsibilities (Overview) It’s the Scrum Master’s responsibility to bring the development team on the same page by teaching them all the values and principles that fundamentally shape Scrum and, respectively, Agile.

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James Shore

DECEMBER 3, 2020

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Product Managers, Coaches. As discussed in the “Charter the Team” sidebar, the chartering session includes your team’s key stakeholders, team members, and product manager (if they’re not already part of the team).

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Modus Create

APRIL 5, 2021

There was no way I could make a hash map or binary search tree in a week (sorry Facebook, Netflix, Amazon, and Google), but thankfully a small coding exercise in HTML/CSS/JS got the job done. If I wanted to go back to my startup, pursue product management, or fly to the moon after my internship, Pat was totally fine with my decision.

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Praxent

AUGUST 12, 2021

Physical Education Television : Check out these exercise and stretching videos to help you stay active. Agile Management Services. Famous Paintings : Learn more about world-famous artists and paintings with an art slideshow. KIDZ BOP Dance Along : This YouTube playlist has a whole bunch of fun songs you can dance along to!

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Modus Create

APRIL 4, 2019

Over the next two days, I walked Tim and Mark through some structured exercises to brainstorm different markets. We noted potential customers they could target and problems the new product could solve. Tim and Mark seemed very sharp, so I didn’t think it would be a problem.

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The Agile Manager

JUNE 30, 2021

A simple search for “product manager” positions in Chicago yields over 6,300 openings; in New York over 6,800 openings; and in Dallas over 5,800 openings. And, per the aforementioned statistics, labor is exercising that power. Social media banners announcing “we’re hiring” are useless when every company is hiring.

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James Shore

JANUARY 10, 2025

Introduction People Internal Quality Lovability Visibility Agility Profitability How are you measuring productivity? How are you measuring productivity? The CEO, chief product officer, chief technical officer, and I met a month later. I walked them through an exercise right there on the CEOs dining room table.

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Trigent

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Focus on right capability: While organizations focus to a large extent on bringing capabilities across development, support, QA, operations, and product management in a scrum team, paramount from a quality perspective would be QA skills. The challenge is to find the right skill mix.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2024

Tech example: For a product manager role, psychometric testing could measure cognitive flexibility and decision-making abilities, which are essential in handling complex tech projects. Job Simulations What it is: Job simulations involve candidates participating in exercises that mimic the tasks they would perform in the job.

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LaunchDarkly

JANUARY 9, 2020

The other thing is releases exercise your mental model like you’re going to do release, you’ve probably got a hypothesis on something that’ll make the system better. And the answer is really as a SRE, I will product manage that. And that kind of brings us to small batch sizes. And then fix all that?”

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The Agile Manager

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Employees will see replatforming as an exercise in re-creating software. It's made much worse when product managers are alleged to have authority, but have their decisions reversed by higher-ups or invalidated by people with stronger business knowledge. We'll build the platform first, then change the organization once it's live.

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LaunchDarkly

MAY 20, 2020

Because root cause doesn’t exist in complex systems and that the practice of root cause analysis is a bureaucratic exercise to assign blame in a particular narrative that doesn’t actually benefit the system or make it more reliable. You could do, I don’t know, implement agile or scrum or whatever and implement that.

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The Agile Manager

AUGUST 30, 2013

The product administrator defaulted into the role of product manager. The few salespeople who survived the purge burrowed into long-standing customers as account managers. There was nobody with enough detailed business knowledge to challenge the new product manager: anything he said was treated as gospel truth.

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