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7 Key Lessons for Agile Leaders from McChrystal’s Team of Teams Book

Vitality Chicago

I am always on the lookout for great books. Recently a fellow Agile Coach recommended General Stanley McChrystal’s Team of Teams book to me. Wow, I was really blown away by this book! It is a great book with many lessons for Agile Leaders ! I hope that you will be inspired to read the book.

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Product Goals in Scrum

Roman Pichler

Please see my article “ Leading Through Shared Goals ” and my book How to Lead in Product Management for more information how to effectively use the goals in figure 1, which includes securing the necessary buy-in from the stakeholders and development teams.

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OKRs and Product Roadmaps

Roman Pichler

To achieve this, you have two options—which I discuss in more detail in my book Strategize : First, you can derive the roadmap goals directly from the needs and business goals by breaking them into subgoals. If you work with a public product roadmap, then I advise using vague time frames such as in the second half of 2004 or in 2025. [6]

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Scaling the Product Owner Role

Roman Pichler

A common technique to do this is unbundling a feature and releasing it as a separate product—like Facebook did with the Messenger app in 2004. The alternative to sharing the responsibility of managing a product is to break up the latter. Another technique is creating product variants—think of iPod shuffle and iPod Touch, for example.

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Product Goals in Scrum

Roman Pichler

Please see my article “ Leading Through Shared Goals ” and my book How to Lead in Product Management for more information how to effectively use the goals in figure 1, which includes securing the necessary buy-in from the stakeholders and development teams.

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There’s Nothing Mere About Semantics

Perceptual Edge

In 2004, I wrote an article titled “Dashboard Confusion” that offered a working definition of the term. The fact that all three authors are avid users and advocates of Tableau Software is reflected in their definition of a dashboard and in the examples of so-called dashboards that appear in the book.

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Fresh Agile Voices – Episode 5 – Jeff Singleton

Vitality Chicago

Jeff: 2005 is the short answer 2004, 2005. I had already started reading about agile ways of working back in 2004. We’re just going to figure this out, keep digging into those books and let’s figure it out. The training was read the book and let’s figure this out for ourselves. It was an eye-opener.

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