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As some organizations move to more autonomous teams and agile practices, the link can be lost between executives’ desired customer value and the delivery of the work. The autonomous team relies heavily on the role of product as the “glue” that brings diverse perspectives together and aligns them with the portfolio team and customer expectations.

Jeff Patton, one of the early Agile thinkers, was frustrated by this, so he leveraged some proven UX design techniques, and adapted them to Agile concepts and introduced user story maps.

Context dictates the way we prioritize our personal work.

The Manifesto for Agile Software Development was put together by a group of developers at a ski resort in Utah in 2001. It contains four simple but powerful value comparisons: individuals and interactions over processes and tools, working software over comprehensive documentation, customer collaboration over contract negotiation, and responding to

The cultural mindset is one of exploration—that you can’t know everything in advance and that significant deviations are the norm. The cultural aspects of experimentation are covered in more depth in Chapter 10. The second requirement is an experimental process, which for the purposes of this book is an enhanced version of agile. The third requirem

Every part of the software system needs to be owned by exactly one team. This means there should be no shared ownership of components, libraries, or code. Teams may use shared services at runtime, but every running service, application, or subsystem is owned by only one team.

A central theme in Scrum is a relentless focus on delivering customer value. The order of the work is based on delivering value to customers rather than on the convenience to development. For the developers who want to build the framework first, this focus on validating technical decisions by delivering value early is a difficult change.

An initiative describes what to build to prove out a bet. Initiatives typically take the form of a series of smaller hypotheses (or experiments) that have a clear measure of success,

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