69. Lean Coffee with Friends over Zoom

Vic (@AgileCoffee) and Larry (@LarryLawhead) were joined by Ben Rodilitz (@BenRodilitz) and Chris Hurney (@chris_hurney) in a virtual coffee shop to discuss the following topics:

• the Weakness of One-piece Flow
• Do you need Team Maturity before you Scale?
• the Imperitive to improve our industry’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
• How well do you understand your Product Owner’s world?

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Books and resources mentioned in this episode:

• Scrum PLoP! one-piece continuous flow
• The Principles of Product Development Flow – by Donald Reinertsen
• Diversity, Equity and Inclusion:
  • The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. – by Peniel E. Joseph
  • The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley – by Malcolm X and Alex Haley
  • The Meta-Cast, episode 169 “Discover your Superpower”
  • White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism – by Robin DiAngelo and Michael Eric Dyson
  • So You Want to Talk About Race – by Ijeoma Oluo
  • Compassionate Coding – founded by @AprilWensel
  • Women in Agile
• Role of Product Owner:
  • ebgconsulting.com/blog/product-manager-product-owner/
  • romanpichler.com/blog/product-manager-vs-product-owner/
  • productcoalition.com/the-collide-of-product-management-and-product-ownership-439105363028
  • Monte Carlo forecasting in Scrum (Scrum.org)

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