Practical Ways to Lead and Serve (Manage) Others by Johanna Rothman is on sale on Leanpub! Its suggested price is $9.99; get it for $7.99 with this coupon: https://leanpub.com/manageothers/c/LeanpubWeeklySale20260407 johannarothman@mastodon.sdf.org #Agile #BusinessAndManagement

Dynamic Reteaming by Heidi Helfand is on sale on Leanpub! Its suggested price is $30.00; get it for $16.00 with this coupon: https://leanpub.com/dynamicreteaming/c/LeanpubWeeklySale20260407 heidihelfand@mastodon.social #Agile #Startups #Teamwork #ProjectManagement

This isn't your typical Agile transformation book. It's a fast-moving story packed with drama, humor, and practical insights. See "Agile Protocol" on Amazon 👉 https://amzn.to/4bVpiJI | #Agile #Scrum #AgileTransformation #ScrumMaster #ProductOwner #AgileProjectManagement #Book

Product teams often suffer from a 'perspective problem'. While leadership tracks market trends, teams focus on specific users. To build great products, we must translate between three layers. Misalignment is usually a lens issue: https://eleganthack.com/everyone-on-your-team-is-right-and-thats-the-problem/ #ProductManagement #Agile

Healthy engineering teams don't rely on heroes.

They rely on:

• planning
• prioritisation
• automation
• sustainable pace

Heroics should be the exception, not the operating model.
#Software #Dev #Agile #Smells #Heroics

Dew Drop Weekly Newsletter 478 - Week Ending April 10, 2026

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Soft skills в IT: почему я против?

Сегодня софт скиллы в IT превратились в удобный инструмент для манипуляций и газлайтинга. Под видом адаптивности и эмпатии нам продают некомпетентность менеджмента и отсутствие внятного планирования. Почему ваши личные качества обсуждают чаще, чем профессиональные результаты? Почему вместо нормальной работы требуют бесконечной гибкости? Разбираемся, почему мода на мягкие навыки стала токсичной и почему обычное человеческое воспитание гораздо важнее любых корпоративных тренингов .

https://habr.com/ru/articles/1021634/

#soft_skills #ITменеджмент #управление_разработкой #agile #тестирование #работа_в_команде #карьера_в_IT #психология_в_IT #дедлайны #эффективность

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»Your Daily Scrum is not the problem. Your Transparency is.« https://www.scrum.org/resources/blog/your-daily-scrum-not-problem-your-transparency #Agilist.in #Agile #Change #Lean #Kanban #Scrum

I am in a meeting so that my team can work.

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#thursday #agile #worklife

»Scrum ROI: How Scrum Reduces Costs and Drives Revenue Growth« https://www.scrum.org/resources/blog/scrum-roi-how-scrum-reduces-costs-and-drives-revenue-growth #Agilist.in #Agile #Change #Lean #Kanban #Scrum

Hero culture doesn't scale.

The most committed engineers eventually burn out, leave, or disengage.

The organisation loses its strongest people.
#Software #Dev #Agile #Smells #Heroics

Organisational Dysfunction of the Day

The powerless retrospective

Context: You and your team have decided it's time to do a retrospective prescribed by the Agile methodology you are using. You all see the use of it and contribute with a lot of ideas and concerns about your work. You record them all and have a vote on the most important ones, but soon realise almost all of them are outside of your mandate to change. You note them down and hope the department lead can do something about it, but know that probably nothing will change, and the whole exercise feels like a complete waste.

OST explains: The members of the team come into this believing they are self-managing, at least to a level where they are able to adjust the work to make it better. Even the Agile methodology says so by incorporating the retospective as a recommended element. An essential element in learning is both looking back and improving going forward. The issue here is that the team is not self-managing, in a DP2 structure, as they are not able to change what really matters to them. Most likely, they are in an agile setup where the teams have been given some control, but most still reside in management outside, in the existing bureaucratic DP1 organisation. The retrospective and the learning it ought to provide are mostly ineffective.

#OpenSystemsTheory #SocioTechnical #agile

Here is a little poll. Do you work in an agile team and if so, do you regularly look at one of these numbers?

Comment if you are using none or different numbers. Thanks for the Boost!

#agile #measure #poll

Just released "The Agile Coach: 2026 Edition"

The article (and accompanying infographic) highlights the breadth and depth of the role. It distills the values, guiding principles, focus areas, tools, and ...

https://scottgraffius.com/blog/files/agile-coach-2026.html

#Agile #Scrum #AgileCoach #Agility #Leadership #AgileProjectManagement

Every time developers rush urgent work:

• Testing gets skipped
• Documentation disappears
• Technical debt grows

You didn't move faster.

You just moved the cost into the future.

#Software #Dev #Agile #Smells #Heroics

»Caring vs. Performance« https://bobgalen.substack.com/p/caring-vs-performance #Agilist.in #Agile #Change #Lean #Kanban #Scrum

»Practical Shape Of The Scrum Artifacts« https://www.scrum.org/resources/blog/practical-shape-scrum-artifacts #Agilist.in #Agile #Change #Lean #Kanban #Scrum

Project Management Institute President and CEO Pierre Le Manh shared an excerpt from my work in his post on LinkedIn. While hundreds of people have liked that post, as the saying goes, you can please some of the people ...

https://linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7443006636136452096/

#Agile #AgileEvolution #Agility #AgileProjectManagement #AgileVisual #AgileInfographic #ProjectManagementInstitute

How Value Stream Maps Prompt Us to Ask More Questions, Part 4
https://www.jrothman.com/mpd/2026/04/how-value-stream-maps-prompt-us-to-ask-more-questions-part-4/
#Agile #Teams #Flow

»Is AI the New Printing Press? Implications for Product Delivery« https://www.scrum.org/resources/blog/ai-new-printing-press-implications-product-delivery #Agilist.in #Agile #Change #Lean #Kanban #Scrum

»Scrum Isn’t Failing—Your Decisions Are: 10 Cognitive Traps to Watch out for« https://www.scrum.org/resources/blog/scrum-isnt-failing-your-decisions-are-10-cognitive-traps-watch-out #Agilist.in #Agile #Change #Lean #Kanban #Scrum

A feature delivered in 3 weeks of sustainable work might be forced into 1 week with late nights and weekends.

Leadership often remembers the 1 week, not the human cost.

Heroics distort reality.
#Software #Dev #Agile #Smells #Heroics

I managed to make a little dent with my series of posts on #SocioTechnical principles of the day, and thought it was due to do something similar, but this time in the context of modern organisations (especially #agile ones) and the modern version of #STS, known as Emery's #OpenSystemsTheory ( #OST). I'll list some systemic problems I have seen in organisations over the years and explain their causes using OST, one each day as I did back then. Probably way too ambitious, but let's see how this goes. Happy to take comments and rebuttals to each one of them, as the point of doing this is to trigger reflections and critical thinking.
Warning: these will probably be a bit more opinionated. 😁

Organisational Dysfunction of the Day

The daily status report

Context: Your team is using Scrum and has been taught how important stand-ups are (daily coordination meeting), but it feels like a drag and a complete waste of time. Feels more like reporting to someone, be it the scrum master or the product owner. And you really do not care about what the others are working on, as it has little to no impact on what you're doing.

OST explains: This team is probably not a team at all; it's more like a group of individuals working on different things. They may contribute to the same delivery but have not been able to take control of the work design and the coordination needed to deliver it. This is not a self-managing team, but rather a delivery group assigned specific tasks by a manager, in charge of splitting the work so that all team members are working as effectively as possible. This is pure DP1 and nowhere close to the self-managing teams in DP2.

I am looking for Feedback. I have developed an App to analyze your teams flow from #Jira, #OpenProject or #Trello (Windows, Mac, Linux). Import your data and get detailed information on Cycle Time, Lead Time and more.

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#agile #flow #kanban #scrum

»🟣 Who Should Update The Sprint Backlog?!« https://www.scrum.org/resources/blog/who-should-update-sprint-backlog #Agilist.in #Agile #Change #Lean #Kanban #Scrum

Ansible for DevOps by Jeff Geerling is on sale on Leanpub! Its suggested price is $9.99; get it for $6.99 with this coupon: https://leanpub.com/ansible-for-devops/c/LeanPublishingDaily20260403 #Agile #Software #Startups #Ansible #Devops #CloudComputing

»Cognitive Trap: Efficiency Over Empiricism« https://www.scrum.org/resources/blog/cognitive-trap-efficiency-over-empiricism #Agilist.in #Agile #Change #Lean #Kanban #Scrum

A few nerdy reflections about the Artemis II mission and agility.

https://www.edyouragilecoach.com/artemis-thinking-in-your-corporate-it-projects/

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We are going back to the moon, and this time it's for keeps. Get ready for the Rare Earth gold rush.

#GhostGang #Leadership #Agile #business #space