The Daily Standup

An Act of Service - What Have you Done For Me Lately? Have you ever been in a situation where you were trying to remember the last time you did a generous act of service for someone else? Do you find that it was so long ago that you just do not remember? Join V. Lee Henson as we discuss why service is important and why recent service is a key to success.
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How To Learn From a Disagreement About Agile - Mike Cohn A reply I got recently to one of these weekly email tips began with, “Mike, you’re wrong.” The reply then went on to summarize that person’s experience and how it led to his conclusion that I’m wrong.
But I wasn’t wrong. 
And neither was he.
Whenever I disagree with someone, I try to begin from the perspective that we are both right. (Except in the case of whether Han shot first. He did.)
If you and I disagree and begin with the assumption that we are both right, we’re going to have a better conversation. Instead of each trying to persuade the other that we’re right, we instead try to figure out why we view something differently.
Putting this in an agile context, our different opinions have been formed by the projects and teams we’ve worked with. Since our experiences were different, the conclusions we draw and opinions we form can be different.
As an example, suppose two people are arguing about how much upfront design should be done on agile projects. Their different opinions could arise from one having experience building very simple websites and the other having experience developing large systems in highly regulated domains.
As another example, I have a different opinion than those advocating “No Estimates.” But rather than thinking they’re wrong, I want to understand how their and my experiences could have led us to different opinions.
Maybe we’ve worked on projects of different sizes. Or we worked with companies with different cultures and attitudes toward planning. Or we were required to make more or fewer commitments to customers, marketing, or external stakeholders such as public or private investors.
When people disagree, I don’t find it very useful to engage in a bare-knuckle brawl to determine who is right. That’s often fruitless, frustrating, and just leads to more entrenched thinking on both sides.
Figuring out why we may disagree is much more productive, and a surer way to succeed with agile.
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The Top 10 Keys To Being a Respected Product Manager 10) Be a great Product Manager 9) Share the credit 8) Acknowledge your mistakes 7) Be proactive 6) Be confident, but not a jerk 5) Be the presentation 4) Moderate the conversation 3) Keep your cool 2) Be a part of the development team, not always their manager 1) Don’t say “Yes or No” hastily to any request
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Should Product Roadmaps Have Dates? Whether product roadmaps should have dates has attracted much debate in product management. Some people passionately argue that dates should be banned from roadmaps. Others claim that they are useful.
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What Is Waste Snake? Is It Agile?
The concept of a "waste snake" isn't a standard term in any major discipline or practice that I'm familiar with. It might be a term from a specific niche or a new concept that hasn’t widely circulated. However, if this term is being used in a context similar to process improvement or systems efficiency, it could potentially refer to a visualization or tracking method for waste in a system, similar to tools used in Lean management like value stream mapping. In Lean methodology, "waste" refers to any activity that consumes resources but creates no value for the customer. Common types of waste include defects, overproduction, waiting, non-utilized talent, transportation, inventory, motion, and extra-processing. A "snake" in this context could metaphorically represent the way waste moves or grows through a system, suggesting a need to identify and eliminate it continuously.
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3 Keys To Help You Get Things Done - Join V. Lee Henson as we explore 3 keys that will truly help you achieve the most in personal productivity.
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What Happens to the Scrum Master if the Organization Decides NOT to do Scrum?

• Team Collaboration Advocate
• Change Agent
• Focus on Continuous Learning and Development
• Consultation and Advisory
• Enhancing Organizational Resilience and Adaptability
• Product Development and Customer Focus

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5 Ways to Improve Team Productivity

1. How to say goodbye to unproductive meetings with a simple framework your team can remember?
2. How to assess the productivity of your current meetings?
3. How can you transition some of your meetings asynchronously?
4. What conditions need to be met for this to succeed?
5. What are the guidelines and principles you should have or consider during meetings?
   

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Our Definition of Productivity is Skewed... Ever since Covid, people have been working MUCH longer hours to get things done... What has changed and how do we fix it? How to connect with AgileDad: - [website] https://www.agiledad.com/ - [instagram] https://www.instagram.com/agile_coach/ - [facebook] https://www.facebook.com/RealAgileDad/ - [Linkedin] https://www.linkedin.com/in/leehenson/

7 Easy to Miss Signs You Are an ANNOYING Leader:

1. You only make room for gloom and doom
2. You treat feedback as a one way street
3. You’re as stable as a spaghetti flagpole in an earthquake
4. You demonstrate a 2D mindset
5. You’re as rigid as a diamond in an ice bath
6. You don’t respect people’s personal time
7. You’ve built a squad of mini-mes (and leverage it)
   

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