Food for Agile Thought #253: Successful Change, 2-Pizza Teams, Product Centricity Lessons, Outstanding Product Leadership

TL; DR: Successful Change, Product Centricity Lessons — Food for Agile Thought #253

Welcome to the 253rd edition of the Food for Agile Thought newsletter, shared with 26,802 peers. This week, we delve into successful change; we explore self-organization at scale, and we revisit the mantra of the two-pizza teams.

We then listen to the story of a product leader who has to move beyond ‘Agile’ & metrics; we pick up insights from a success story on transitioning to a product-driven organization, and we come back to the adage that ideas are worth nothing, only execution is.

Lastly, we consider whether regarding transitions as products would increase the chances of a successful change.

Did you miss last week’s Food for Agile Thought’s issue #252 ?

Do you want to get this article in your inbox? You can sign up here and join 26k other subscribers .

🏆 The Tip of the Week: Successful Change

Marty Cagan: Keys To Successful Transformation

Marty Cagan shares a precise and concise summary of factors of successful change — if only the right people would read it:

Source: Keys To Successful Transformation

Author: Marty Cagan

👉 🔬 Join the Agile Metrics Survey 2020 — Start Your Contribution now!

Agile & Scrum

Ron Quartel (via Agile Alliance): Self-Organization Eats Agile at Scale for Breakfast

Ron Quartel describes a two-year experiment of a product tribe of 50 people in self-organization, including dynamic teaming every two days.

Source: Agile Alliance: Self-Organization Eats Agile at Scale for Breakfast

Author: Ron Quartel

Kislay Verma: Independence, autonomy, and too many small teams

Kislay Verma believes that we have lost the original intent of the ‘two-pizza teams.’

Source: Independence, autonomy, and too many small teams

Author: Kislay Verma

Jason Little: Balancing the Push and Pull of Change

Jason Little suggests imagining that your change initiative a product and that the change tasks are the features.

Source: Balancing the Push and Pull of Change

Author: Jason Little

📅 🖥 🇬🇧 Advanced Professional Scrum Master (PSM II) Online Training — September 15-18, 2020

This advanced Scrum Master training (PSM II) is an official Scrum.org class for advanced Scrum Masters, including the industry-acknowledged PSM II certification. The PSM II training class is designed as a live virtual class of 4 h per day from 9 to 13 o’clock CEST and will be offered in English.

Learn more: 📅 🖥 🇬🇧 Advanced Professional Scrum Master (PSM II) Live Virtual Class: September 15-18, 2020 .

Product & Lean

Christina Wodtke (via Mind The Product): 🎙 Leading [Product] Teams to Success

Christina Wodtke tells the story of a product leader who has to learn to manage a product team effectively beyond agile & metrics.

Source: Mind The Product: 🎙 Leading [Product] Teams to Success

Author: Christina Wodtke

Ellen Gottesdiener and Toby Sinclair (via Agile Alliance): Lessons Learned in Becoming a Product-Centric Organization

Ellen Gottesdiener and Toby Sinclair describe the shift from a component, technology aligned to a product-centric organization.

Source: Agile Alliance: Lessons Learned in Becoming a Product-Centric Organization

Authors: Ellen Gottesdiener and Toby Sinclair

Paul Hobcraft: Taking Final Ideas to Market is the Hardest Part

Paul Hobcraft emphasizes the importance of getting real with ideas and concepts.

Source: Taking Final Ideas to Market is the Hardest Part

Author: Paul Hobcraft

📯 How to Create an Agile Community of Practice

Creating an agile community of practice helps winning hearts and minds within the organization as it provides authenticity to the agile transition — signaling that the effort is not merely another management fad.

Learn how to get your agile community going even without a dedicated budget and how to make it work with distributed teams.

Read more: How to Create an Agile Community of Practice .

📅 More Training, Workshops, and Events

.tg {border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:0;}
.tg td{font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;padding:10px 19px;border-style:solid;border-width:1px;overflow:hidden;word-break:normal;border-color:black;}
.tg th{font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-weight:normal;padding:10px 19px;border-style:solid;border-width:1px;overflow:hidden;word-break:normal;border-color:black;}
.tg .tg-fymr{font-weight:bold;border-color:inherit;text-align:left;vertical-align:top}
.tg .tg-0pky{border-color:inherit;text-align:left;vertical-align:top}
@media screen and (max-width: 767px) {.tg {width: auto !important;}.tg col {width: auto !important;}.tg-wrap {overflow-x: auto;-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch;}}

See all upcoming classes here .

You can book your seat for the training directly by following the corresponding links to the ticket shop. If the procurement process of your organization requires a different purchasing process, please contact Berlin Product People GmbH directly.

📺 Join 2,350-plus Agile Peers on Youtube

Now available on the Age-of-Product Youtube channel:

• 🆕 Remote Agile (1) Replay: Practices and Tools for Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches, and Product Owners .
• Scrum Sprint Retrospective Anti-Patterns .
• Scrum Master Anti-Patterns .

✋ Do Not Miss Out and Learn about Successful Change: Join the 7,900-plus Strong ‘Hands-on Agile’ Slack Community

I invite you to join the “Hands-on Agile” Slack Community and enjoy the benefits of a fast-growing, vibrant community of agile practitioners from around the world.

If you like to join all you have to do now is provide your credentials via this Google form , and I will sign you up. By the way, it’s free.

🗞️ Last Week’s Food for Agile Thought Edition

Read more: Food for Agile Thought #252: Resolving Team Conflict, Ikigai & Cynefin, Adjacent User Theory, Reducing Churn .

The post Food for Agile Thought #253: Successful Change, 2-Pizza Teams, Product Centricity Lessons, Outstanding Product Leadership appeared first on Age of Product .

Click For Original Article