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"Food for Agile Thought&rsquo;s issue #119&mdash;shared with 12,907 peers&mdash;addresses the decision process in groups, how XScale&rsquo;s business agility approach works, and why cargo cult agile usually means running in circles. We share a handy guide on how to deal with engineering teams, and why you need to include them in any persona creation activity. We also have a look at Buffer&rsquo;s 6-week product cycle. Lastly, we cover why product management by committee is doomed from the start, and we learn about how hard it is as a corporation to get from a big idea to a sustainable product. Have a great week! &#x1f3c6; The Tip of the Week. Dan Ariely (via TED Talks): Mariano Sigman and Dan Ariely: How can groups make good decisions? Mariano Sigman and Dan Ariely provide insight into their experiments how we interact &mdash; as groups &mdash; to reach decisions. Source: TED Talks: Mariano Sigman and Dan Ariely: How can groups make good decisions? Author: Dan Ariely Business Agility &amp; Scrum.  (via finaplana ag): A Game without Thrones: Business Agility Christopher Young describes &lsquo;A Game w/o Thrones&rsquo;&mdash;Xscale&rsquo;s pivotal game to achieve business agility by self-organization. Source: finaplana ag: A Game without Thrones: Business Agility Mike Cohn: Five Lessons I&#039;m Thankful I Learned in my Agile Career Mike Cohn shares five lessons that have been fundamental to his career. Source: Five Lessons I&#039;m Thankful I Learned in my Agile Career Author: Mike Cohn Ryan Singer (via Basecamp): Running in Circles: Why Agile Isn&rsquo;t Working and What We Do Differently Ryan Singer on why &lsquo;Agile&rsquo; so often is equated with speed when doing the wrong things, building to specs, and getting distracted are the real problems. Source: Basecamp: Running in Circles: Why Agile Isn&rsquo;t Working and What We Do Differently Author: Ryan Singer  (via Mind The Product): A Guide to Collaborating With and Motivating Your Engineering Team Kunal Punjabi provides a handy guide for collaborating with the engineering team. Source: Mind The Product: A Guide to Collaborating With and Motivating Your Engineering Team &#x1f4ef; From the Blog: Create Personas with the Help of the Engineers. Creating valuable software requires knowing the customer&mdash;we all agree on that, right? The first question that then comes to mind is how to support this product discovery process in a meaningful manner in an agile environment? And the second question follows swiftly: who shall participate in the process&mdash;designers and business analysts or the engineers, too? Read More: Create Personas with the Help of the Engineers. Product &amp; Lean. Katie Womersley (via Buffer): Inside Our Product Process at Buffer: 6 Week Cycles and How We Run Them Katie Womersley explains how the six-week cycles of Buffer&rsquo;s product and engineering team work. Source: Buffer: Inside Our Product Process at Buffer: 6 Week Cycles and How We Run Them Author: Katie Womersley Cliff Gilley (via UserVoice): Product Management by Committee: A Recipe for Disaster Cliff Gilley elaborates why the approach of &lsquo;let&rsquo;s all get together and decide, as a team, where we want the product to go&rsquo; is doomed from the start. Source: UserVoice: Product Management by Committee: A Recipe for Disaster Author: Cliff Gilley Ralph Ohr and Frank Mattes (via InnovationExcellence): Crossing the Internal Chasm in Corporate Innovation Ralph Ohr and Frank Mattes dive into the obstacles and challenges corporations face when trying to turn &lsquo;big ideas&rsquo; into substantial businesses. Source: InnovationExcellence: Crossing the Internal Chasm in Corporate Innovation Authors: Ralph Ohr and Frank Mattes #FoodForAgileThought #119: Business Agility, Agile Career Lessons, Product Design by Committee Click to tweet &#x270b; Don&rsquo;t Miss Out: Join the 2,070-plus Strong &lsquo;Hands-on Agile&rsquo; Slack Team. I invite you to join the &ldquo;Hands-on Agile&rdquo; Slack team and enjoy the benefits of a fast-growing, vibrant community of agile practitioners from around the world. If you like to join now all you have to do now is provide your credentials via this Google form, and I will sign you up. By the way, it&rsquo;s free. Last Week&rsquo;s Food for Agile Thought Edition. Read more: Food for Agile Thought #118: Scrum Troubles, Brilliant Jerks, How to Experiment, Sprint Review for POs."
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