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Weekend Reading – Agile Success Requires Qualified Coaches
“Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." (John Wooden, former UCLA Bruins Coach) Dear all, There is something that keeps me puzzled. Regardless of whether we are discussing OKRs, agile working models, or digital transformation at large, the focus...
Weekend Reading – Where on the Journey to Product Teams are You?
Dear all, As we are currently taking a few days off, I’ll keep WR very brief today (and w/o fresh .gif), but I couldn’t resist sharing this. Amplitude’s John Cutler has put together a simple, yet brilliant, infographic on the development of product teams. As he points...
Weekend Reading – Agile is not Enough
“Good companies manage Engineering. Great companies manage Product.” – Thomas Schranz (Founder & CEO, Blossom) Dear all, those of you who have worked with me for some time, know that I am a product- and innovation guy at heart. I fell in love with this when...
Weekend Reading – Most Product or Feature Ideas are Worthless
"Ideas are a commodity." (Michael Dell) Dear all, this morning‘s German Business daily “Handelsblatt” claimed that one of the two key questions the CHRO of a well-known Bavarian carmaker asks candidates is "How do I make an idea big and scale it?" Maybe it's because I...
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...