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Dear all, earlier this week, gtmhub's CPO, Jenny Herald, invited me into her podcast "Dreams with Deadlines".Jenny’s last question to me was which advice I would give to managers. And I answered that I would suggest starting thinking about the ends, not the means – to...

Dear all, My apologies! Once again, I am late. At a client’s site this week, I was working in person (applying appropriate precautions, obviously!) with two teams on their strategies and OKRs using our Practical Strategy Framework. Them being truly awesome teams, we...

A well-formed product strategy is a beacon that guides navigation in the open space between product vision and what’s being developed. It needs to be flexible to account for the unavoidable uncertainties along the way and not deteriorate into a rigid plan or roadmap.

Dear all, are we going after the right priorities when it comes to delivering IT projects or digital products? Coaching teams regularly, I remain doubtful. The underlying challenge – to my mind – is often the lack of a clear intention (the WHY) and a rather narrow...

Dear all, this issue of weekend reading could save you tons of money. If you are following the US news, you may have read about the "COVID discount rates" that a management consultancy successfully sold to the US government for their advice in the pandemic. Times are...

Dear all, some of you know that I am prone to railing against committee-prioritized feature lists for software projects, in particular when to be developed by supposedly ‘self-organizing’ agile teams. The situation usually improves somewhat when we can make the...