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Remembering Memorial Day - Reflection Reflect on what memorial day really means.. 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/

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. How to connect with AgileDad: - [website] ...

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 . (Ex...

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 How to connect with AgileDad: - [websi...

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. How to connect with AgileDad: - [website]  https://www.agiledad.com/ - [instagram]  https://www.instagram.com/agile_coach/ - [facebook]  https://www.facebook.com/R...

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 visualizati...

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. 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/

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 How to connect with AgileDad: - [website]  https://www.agiledad.com/ - [instagram]  https://www.instagram.com/agile_co...

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

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: You only make room for gloom and doom You treat feedback as a one way street You’re as stable as a spaghetti flagpole in an earthquake You demonstrate a 2D mindset You’re as rigid as a diamond in an ice bath You don’t respect people’s personal time You’ve built a squad of mini-mes (and leverage it) How to connect with AgileDad: - [website]  https://...

Lead With Light & Love... After speaking at a recent conference, I had three very magical moments with some of the attendees. Join V. Lee Henson as we discuss what happened and the impact we can have on others. How to connect with AgileDad: - [website]  https://www.agiledad.com/ - [instagram]  https://www.instagram.com/agile_coach/ - [facebook]  https://www.facebook.com/RealAgileDad/ - [Linked...

7 Things a Product Owner Should Stop Doing: Acting Like the Team Manager Not Involving the Team in Product Backlog Management Create All the Goals and Objectives Alone Be a Team Output Owner and Act Like a Proxy Forget That Value Requires Validation Treating All Stakeholders the Same Not Involving the Team in Stakeholder Conversations How to connect with AgileDad: - [website]  https://www.agiledad...

Are User Stories The Same as Requirements? - Mike Cohn Are  user stories  the same as requirements? Not quite, but they’re close. Rather than thinking of a user story as a requirement, I find it more useful to think of each story as a pointer to a requirement. Most commonly, every story is a placeholder for a future conversation between the team and its stakeholders. During that conversation, stak...

Top 5 Things We Do Incorrectly in Product Discovery Inadequate time for the problem space Discovery solely for estimation Discovery without past evidence Discovery for a quarter or more Separation of responsibilities and accountabilities in discovery and delivery How to connect with AgileDad: - [website]  https://www.agiledad.com/ - [instagram]  https://www.instagram.com/agile_coach/ - [facebook] ...

Agile Does NOT Mean ZERO Planning... Before diving into how I managed planning for this project, it’s important to understand what a plan is and the role of agile planning. A  PLAN  is a detailed proposal for doing or achieving something. It’s like a beacon, offering stakeholders a clear vision and placing realistic expectations. It can project a rough timeline for marketing activities, too. The b...

How Can I Speak At A Conference? - AgileDadSpeaks. Com Join V. Lee Henson for this Agile Not so Agile episode of The Daily Standup Podcast where he discusses what it takes to speak at Industry-wide conferences and the joy that it can bring in uplifting others! How to connect with AgileDad: - [website]  https://www.agiledad.com/ - [instagram]  https://www.instagram.com/agile_coach/ - [facebook]  ht...

The Top 10 AI Tools For Agile Project Managers: Stepsize. AI Motion Notion Process Street Forecast Ayanza ClickUp Trello Asana Monday BONUS - ChatGPT4 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/

Avoid Overloading Your Sprints - Mike Cohn Someone asked me the other day, “Is there a maximum size for a sprint backlog item?” The simple answer is yes. A team should not bring any item that is more than half of its average velocity into an iteration. As an example, if a team’s average velocity is 30, and the team estimates using the Fibonacci series, the maximum size sprint backlog item would be...

The Top AI Tools For Product Managers: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoYxTrSg7WvRTz_2C1OAnHC2fkWTcQyxx 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/

Don’t say “No” hastily to any request Be a part of the development team, not their manager Keep your cool Moderate the conversation Be the presentation Be confident, but not a jerk Be proactive Acknowledge your mistakes Share the credit Just be a great product manager How to connect with AgileDad: - [website]  https://www.agiledad.com/ - [instagram]  https://www.instagram.com/agile_coach/ - [faceb...

People Don't Buy Your Product... They Buy YOU! For this one.. You just need to listen. ~ Lee 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/

The Product Owner - Steering the Team to Success Imagine a world where requirements are constantly changing, priorities are shifting, and stakeholders are never satisfied. Sounds like a nightmare, right? Well, that’s where the Product Owner steps in like a superhero to save the day. The Product Owner is like the captain of a ship in Agile development. They steer the team in the right direction, pr...

Scrum Has Transformed Itself I’ve noticed that what we understand by Scrum is like the telephone game. Everyone interprets something, passes it on, and the next person picks up what they think is relevant. And to complicate matters further, it’s a changing game. Scrum is not static; its own creators realize its shortcomings and fix them over time. Moreover, after downloading the official guides, v...

Whether or not you are a fan of Star Trek, you’ve likely heard of the Captain of the U.S.S Enterprise asking some form of this question: “Engineering, status report?” or “Spock, status report?” (It’s such a common trope that Season 2, episode 9 of  Star Trek: Brave New Worlds , “Subspace Rhapsody,” features an iconic scene where the crew has encountered something that is making them all  sing thei...