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🇮🇹 Empirismo in Scrum [E23]

November 15, 2024
In questo episodio Fabio Panzavolta esplora l'empirismo, uno dei pilastri fondamentali di Scrum. Scopriremo perché l'approccio empirico è essenziale nella risoluzione di problemi complessi e come si differenzia dall'approccio predittivo tradizionale. Vedremo anche come questo pilastro si integra con i tre elementi chiave: trasparenza, ispezione e adattamento.
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🇮🇹 Lean Thinking e Scrum [E22]

November 14, 2024
In questo episodio Fabio Panzavolta esplora il Lean Thinking e la sua profonda connessione con Scrum. Scopriremo come questi due approcci si completano a vicenda e come il Lean Thinking influenza la cultura aziendale, l'eliminazione degli sprechi e la creazione di valore per il cliente.
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Relieving Product Owner’s Burden

November 14, 2024
In my experience, if you have correctly defined the product (or product family), the Product Owner inevitably becomes someone at the Board−1 or Board−2 level (in the worst case). But now that you have a real Product Owner on board, a new problem arises: this person is incredibly busy. How can you relieve their workload? Through delegation. And delegation can be done either to the teams or by creating a Product Owner Team.
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🇮🇹 Che differenza c'è tra Agile e Scrum? [E21]

November 13, 2024
In questo episodio, Fabio Panzavolta esplora le differenze fondamentali tra Agile e Scrum, partendo dalle origini storiche fino alla loro applicazione moderna. Scopriremo come Scrum sia uno strumento pratico per implementare i principi Agile e perché questa distinzione è cruciale per le organizzazioni che vogliono migliorare il loro modo di lavorare.
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There's more to Organizational Agility than the Scrum Guide

November 13, 2024
Let me start by saying that I am not demeaning the Scrum Guide in any way. Teams are empowered - with Scrum - to respond and adapt to complex environments in ways that would have been impossible before. That being said, the Scrum framework "just" guides the interactions of the Scrum team itself.
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Continuous Deployment – Vanity or Transformational Capability?

November 13, 2024
Is Continuous Deployment a bragging right or a game-changer? 🤔 CD isn’t just about speed. It’s about closing fast feedback loops to adapt quickly, learn from real user interactions, and drive outcomes. Without it, product development often becomes a guessing game, relying on assumptions instead of data.
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The Gut Feeling Agile Coach or Scrum Master

November 13, 2024
Gut feelings and intuition might be spot on, but they can be fraught with biases, personal preferences, and wrong heuristics. Agile Coaches and Scrum Masters would be wise to use a more data-informed, evidence-based, and scientifically validated approach to improve team and organizational effectiveness.
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Saying “No” Isn’t So Bad

November 11, 2024
We are often told that getting to “yes” when asking a question is a powerful negotiation technique. That much is true but asking questions that lead to “no” can really tease out conversations and help to understand why a certain position is held by someone.
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Crafting a Compelling Product Vision that Inspires

November 11, 2024
Crafting a compelling product vision is an essential step in guiding your product’s development and inspiring your team. Using the right tools and techniques, you can create a clear, customer-focused, and emotionally resonant vision. Remember, a good product vision defines where you’re going and inspires others to join you on the journey.
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Using Agile with Firmware and Hardware

November 7, 2024
Complex product development requires an adaptive approach. In our latest podcast, join our hosts Jeff Lee and Patrick Campbell as they dive into the tools and practices that can help you improve your product delivery, even when firmware and hardware changes are involved.
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Project to Product and the Agile Product Operating Model

November 7, 2024
Project to Product states that product-based approaches will replace project-based approaches for delivering digital work. The book Project to Product by Mik Kersten describes this approach, comparing how BMW manages production to how a bank delivers digital products—highlighting the complexity, bureaucracy, and lack of transparency in project-based approaches. The Agile Product Operating Model (APOM) is a framework that helps organizations adopt a product-based approach. It helps organizations change mindset, alignment, and funding to support a product approach. APOM, an empirical approach, has seven characteristics: self-managed teams, learning-oriented, aligned incentives, empowered product leadership, integrated strategy, product investment, and agile governance.
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🇮🇹 Evento Sprint Review: da presentazione a sessione di valore [E14]

November 6, 2024
In questo episodio, Fabio Panzavolta approfondisce la Sprint Review, un evento di Scrum che si concentra sull'ispezione dei risultati dello Sprint e sull'adattamento dei piani futuri. Scopriamo come i Team Scrum possono trasformare questo evento da una semplice presentazione a una sessione di lavoro collaborativa che aumenta il valore del prodotto e il coinvolgimento degli stakeholder.
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Stop Focusing on Utilization. Start Focusing on Flow

November 6, 2024
Does it make sense to aim for 100% utilization across the organization? Is that efficient? Whether it’s an ad agency, a factory, a product development organization, or any organization – it has a constraint. The constraint/bottleneck should be optimized, but other areas of the process shouldn’t aim for 100% utilization since that would create waste and overload.
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Scrum & UX Fundamentals

November 4, 2024
Scrum and Lean UX share several similarities in their principles and practices, particularly in their focus on collaboration, iterative development, and delivering value to customers. Both Scrum and Lean UX embrace an iterative and incremental approach. Learn more in this blog post from PST Simon Kneafsey.
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Agile Assessment at CAPITAL Services

November 3, 2024
In this podcast, we dive into a transformative case study with CAPITAL Services, a leading credit card servicer. Once reliant on traditional waterfall methodologies, they sought a faster way to innovate and maintain a competitive edge. By adopting Scrum, they set out to deliver the best work and get real-time feedback on their progress.
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The Real Question We Should Be Asking About Agile Transformation

November 1, 2024
Despite massive investments in Digital Transformation, with $6.3 trillion projected by 2024, failure rates remain high—around 84%. The issue? Many large organizations lean heavily on scaling frameworks like SAFe or LeSS, but without adapting them to their unique needs, they struggle to achieve Agile success. Rather than simply adopting a framework, organizations should focus on evolving it to fit their specific, changing context. The key question isn’t “How can I adopt Framework X?” but “How can I evolve my framework to meet my organization’s needs?”
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The Case for Flow Metrics

October 31, 2024
Agile teams often struggle with how to size and forecast upcoming work. Flow metrics offer a simple, effective way to solve that problem without the headaches that come from traditional estimation methods. In fact, flow metrics can provide more accurate planning and forecasting than using points or hours—and they keep things agile, not bogged down in endless debates about estimates.
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Organize For Products - Not False Efficiency

October 31, 2024
Efficiency seems like an important word. Other words like productivity, specialization, capacity, utilization and standardization also sound pretty impressive. These words are important words for optimizing (another word!) repetitive processes. The problem is that these words are not as important when it comes to creative work or problem-solving. Read more in this blog post from PST Mary Iqbal.