SPaMCAST 711 - Why Re-read Saturday, Team Leaders In Scrum, Essays and Conversations

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This week we make a quick side trip. Earlier this week I was asked why I “did” the Re-read Saturday column. Today, I offer a short explanation and highlight the experiments I am running as part of our re-read of</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/38G0ZD3"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Coaching Agile Teams by Lyssa Adkins</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We also have a visit from Jon M. Quigley. In this installment of his Alpha and Omega of Product Development, Jon and I discuss the role of the team lead in agile teams that have coaches, scrum masters, and just might be self-organizing. There is a role but it is not the classic version that is in common use.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why Do I “Do” Re-read Saturday.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Re-read Saturday is a long-running column featured on my blog (tcagley.wordpress.com) and at tomcagley.com. The books selected for the column are nominated and then voted on by readers. Because most books are selected by the acclaim from readers of the blog, the re-read is sometimes actually the first read for me. During the re-read we read, discuss, and highlight concepts chapter by chapter. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There are three major reasons for the column. One, the column draws eyes. A blog without readers is a diary. Over the years, many of the top 10 annual posts have been from the re-read feature. A second reason, and perhaps the original reason was that I had not read some of these books before and really needed to read them. For some of the other books we have re-read, the re-read drove home the point that memory erodes over time. For example, I am embarrassed to say I had forgotten the story of Herby (check out the re-read of The Goal). Reason two is that the re-read is a forcing function to guide behavior. The books we read and re-read help shape how we behave. The third reason is that the column generates a lot o