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Weekend Reading – Product-Led is Conquering the World
"Being product-led... is about differentiation, learning and problem-solving, ... and moving teams closer to the “edge” — the users and customers." (John Cutler, Amplitude) Dear all, When I first rubbed shoulders with the tech industry as a student in the Silicon...
Weekend Reading – Agile Doesn’t Buy You Agility
Dear all, It‘s a busy summer (we will soon be moving house), so Weekend Reading will remain a bit erratic for the next few months, my apologies… (tldr) Recently I had one of those Agile/agile discussions again. 20+ years into the Agile Manifesto, a key misconception...
Weekend Reading – Prioritise for Business Impact per Development Effort
Dear all, it's been a while! Hope you can finally start to enjoy the early summer. Judging from the traffic jams and increasingly packed parking lots here in the South, it would seem you are! So if you’re out and about, the following will be tldr. If you’re stuck in...
Weekend Reading – Projects Can’t Deliver Digital Products Successfully
Dear all, many of our clients and especially IT departments are struggling with the dichotomy between "project" and "product" and the transition from working with projects to developing products. The ones with a strong industrial production or successful IT project...
Weekend Reading – Take a Balanced Approach to Continuous Improvement
Dear all, a central notion of Agile is the continuous improvement of value delivery. Depending on method and framework "Sprint Retrospectives" (Scrum), "Service Delivery-" or "Improvement Meetings" (Kanban) are the key means and rituals to improve the effectiveness of...
Weekend Reading – Root Out Mediocrity in Ideation: Lessons from Facebook, Amazon and PIXAR
Dear all, 10 years after the publication of Eric Ries' seminal "The Lean Startup", the idea seems to have become an orthodoxy in startup- and tech circles. Research suggests that >80% + of all Silicon Valley startups more or less follow the concept. Talking about...