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07/30/2024

Top evil ways an Agile Manager might misuse
1. Prioritizing Personal Projects
2. Hiding Information from Stakeholders
3. Ignoring Technical Debt
4. Feature volume over Quality
5. Micromanaging the Team
6. Creating False Urgency
7. Gaslighting
8. Taking Credit
9. Dishing out Blame
10. Playing Favorites

What have I missed?

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07/29/2024

Top reasons a Product Owner needs in an Agile world to
6. Keep the Team focused on the End User
7. Keep Stakeholders focused on the End User
8. Manage Expectations
9. Create room for Innovation and Experimentation
10. Educate Stakeholders

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07/26/2024

Top reasons a Product Owner needs in an Agile world to
1. Manage Stakeholders Expectations
2. To Keep Stakeholders Engaged
3. Keep the Business focused on Outcomes and not Output
4. To help the Team understand their Vision
5. To main control of their Priorities
..more tomorrow...

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07/25/2024

Top evil ways an Agile Manager might misuse
1. Micromanagement
2. Withholding Information
3. Favoritism
4. Blame Shifting and its close friend...
5. Credit Stealing
6. Undermining Team Members
7. Forcing ppl to over commit
8. Divide and Rule
9. Gaslighting
10. Sabotaging other teams

What have I missed?

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07/24/2024

Top Reasons an Agile Manager needs
6. Work with Other Leaders
7. Get Senior Management to help
8. Change focus from Output to Outcomes
9. Advocate for the needs of your Teams
10. Promote an Environment of Psychology Safety

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07/23/2024

Top Reasons an Agile Manager needs
1. Foster Collaboration - across Teams and Departments
2. Encourage Wider Scale Organizational Change
3. Facilitate Learning
4. Help people see value in Agile/Scrum/Kanban events and activities
5. Encourage Problem solving
..more tomorrow...

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07/22/2024

when circumstances are uncertain our brains press pause. An experiment that Berger cites: students were offered a cheap vacation and placed in three groups: pass, fail and unknown. The pass and fail groups both wanted the vacation. The uncertain group didn't want the vacation as much. Yet eventually they will either be in the pass or fail group, so their interests should be the same. The *Uncertainty caused them to press pause*.

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07/19/2024

Everett Rogers - Diffusions of Innovation - one of the most cited science books ever. It's the source of Innovators, Early Adopters, Early Majority, ...

In this book Everett, that up to 87% of the variance in adoption of an innovation (idea or product) comes from the trialability. Trialability is an odd, word. It just means if our ideas can't be easily tried. They will be ignored.

Next time you want an improvement at work make it sure it can be tried easily.

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07/19/2024

Brainstorming with ChatGPT and LLMs in general. When I prompt with find "20 Good Things" person X can do, I get generic anodyne results. When I prompt "20 Evil Things". This suggests most the Agile writing these tools are trained on is: generic and lame.

Don't trust an LLM for anything where you don't have the experience to do a BS test.

07/18/2024

- How much would you pay for $50 gift card at a local retailer that must used in two weeks. On average people were willing to pay $45. Now offer a lottery ticket with 50% chance of winning a $50 and 50% chance of winning $100 Gift card. We would expect the perceived value to go up or stay the same. In fact it dropped to $16.

To reduce the tax at work, offer experiments and make bigger decisions reversible.

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07/17/2024

Reduce Upfront Costs, is one way to improve . I found it interesting to learn, people value a savings of $5.99 with free shipping, over a $10 discount on the product itself. Free shipping resolved uncertainty, where a discount for even more money does not.

*I guess I'm an odd duck, I look at the total cost of ownership*

The Catalyst - Jonah Berger


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07/16/2024

at Work - Asking someone in leadership to take the perspective of the development team will be a challenge if that leader doesn't have prior development experience. We need to establish common ground on a relevant subject. Hint if the need for influence is at work, establishing rapport of kids isn't going to help. Instead, we need to find a shared experience that that is relevant to our work. Example if the problem is frequent interruptions to our dev team, then find ask them about the effect of interruptions on their own focus work. Ask open ended questions and truly listen.

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