TL; DR: Innovation Failure, Distributed Teams, PMs to CEOs, Keeping Track of Hypotheses—Food for Agile Thought #223
Food for Agile Thought’s issue #223—shared with 24,653 peers—addresses innovation failure; we revisit standups and what makes them successful, and we learn more about the magic stance of actively doing nothing.
We also delve into the ‘2019 Annual Product Management and Product Marketing Survey’ results; we pick up a few useful visualizations to explain product management to outsiders, and we consider bringing order to our user-related questions, hypotheses, and assumptions to prevent user research from turning ugly.
Lastly, we thank both VPs of Engineering from Buffer and Splice for sharing a guide on how to make distributed teams successful with us.
On our own account: Issue 224 will be delivered on January 12th, 2020. Enjoy a chillaxing Holiday season… 
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The Essential Post: Innovation Failure
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Cautionary Tales Ep 6: How Britain Invented, Then Ignored, Blitzkrieg
In this podcast, the undercover economist takes us back in history, pointing at why innovative incumbents fail to exploit their ideas with the finishing line in sight.
Agile Camp Berlin 2020 — The Last Minute 
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Agile & Scrum
(via LeSS): Actively Doing Nothing
Bas Vodde explains what this magic Scrum Master stance is all about. Spoiler alert: it is hard.
: Better Standups
Ron Lichty delves into what constitutes a productive standup.
(via Increment): A guide to distributed teams
Katie Womersley of Buffer and Juan Pablo Buriticá of Splice wrote an epic guide on how to make distributed engineering teams happy and productive.
Agile Movers & Shakers (2): Diana Larsen
While Diana Larsen continues her coaching, mentoring, and consulting practice in a limited way, she has shifted more toward involvement as a co-founder of the Agile Fluency Project , a startup that is intended to help agile coaches grow and strengthen their practices with the Agile Fluency Suite of materials and the Agile Fluency Game.
Learn more: Agile Movers & Shakers (2): Diana Larsen .
Product & Lean
(via The Startup): 6 diagrams I use to explain Product Management concepts
Curtis Stanier shares some of his visualizations to help others understand key ideas in product management.
(via ProductCraft): What PMs Wish They Could Tell Their CEOs
Philip Alexander reports on how CEOs can support product managers according to the ‘2019 Annual Product Management and Product Marketing Survey.’
(via Nielsen Norman Group): Tracking Research Questions, Assumptions, and Facts in Agile
Rachel Krause suggests keeping track of user-related questions, hypotheses, and assumptions in a knowledge board.
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