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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.
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Embracing Positive Risk: A Path to Innovation

October 28, 2024
Risk management is often focused on preventing negative outcomes, but it's equally important to embrace positive risks. By encouraging experimentation and rewarding innovation, leaders can foster a culture that drives growth and breakthrough solutions.
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新プロダクト開発における価値の発見と仮説検証の進め方について

October 27, 2024
プロダクト開発においては、課題を正確に見極め、最適な解決策を見つけることが重要です。しかし、多くのチームは早すぎる開発や古い手法に依存してしまうことが多く、結果としてリソースを無駄にしがちです。トゥルース・カーブは各段階での適切な実験手法を選択し、リスクを抑えながらデータに基づく意思決定を支援します。
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Scrum: The Power of Doing Less

October 24, 2024
Scrum’s strength lies in its simplicity. Discover why stripping down to only the essentials makes Scrum a truly lightweight framework that empowers teams to focus on what really matters.
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The Power of Product Thinking

October 24, 2024
Struggling with unclear priorities, technical debt, or stalled progress with your Scrum Teams? Adopting a product-focused approach can unlock your team's potential and drive continuous value. Discover how one team went from nine months of frustration to delivering game-changing solutions in just weeks by shifting their focus from 'completing projects' to solving real customer problems. Ready to transform your results? Read on to learn how product thinking makes all the difference.
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How to Handle Multiple Products as a Product Owner

October 23, 2024
Managing multiple products as a Product Owner presents both challenges and opportunities. In this video PSTs Greg Crown, Jason Malmstadt, and Robert Pieper share strategies for defining products more clearly, discuss the pros and cons of managing multiple products, and explain how diverse perspectives can enhance product management.
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The 5 Worst Agile Mistakes I’ve Made

October 21, 2024
This article was tough to write, not because I don’t have enough mistakes to share, but because there are so many! Mistakes are where we learn, and that’s exactly what I’ve done. I hope sharing mine will help you avoid making the same ones.