Weekend Reading
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Weekend Reading – The 20/21 Holiday Season Long Reads
Dear all, last weekend I did promise you a short list of long reads for the holidays before I sign out for the year. Here are my three suggestions: Tendayi Viki: Pirates in the Navy If you have ever tried to innovate in a corporate environment, you will have multiple...
Weekend Reading – What is Product Management after All?
Dear all, over the past few weeks I have touched on a number of aspects of Product Management, but never defined the subject as such. This is not because I am shying away from this rapidly evolving field (as some of you are aware I have built and run sizeable –...
Weekend Reading – Product Management Starts with a Product Vision
Dear all, (Late again this weekend – my apologies). In our work we came across a few interesting questions this week. The most intriguing to me: "Doesn't managing a product ultimately just mean to manage the backlog and deliver the highest value first? Applying WSJF...
Weekend Reading – Understand the Job-to-be-Done B4 Wasting Time & Effort on the Wrong Solution
Weekend Reading – Understand Stakeholder Needs with Product Discovery
Dear all, As mentioned recently, we are seeing our clients increasingly move to a "product-oriented" IT model, often in conjunction with the introduction of some form of Agile working models. The recent 2020 update of the Scrum Guide states it clearly: "A product is a...
Weekend Reading – Use the KANO Model to Rationalise Feature Requests for User Delight and -Satisfaction
Dear all, many of our clients are currently moving from a "demand-driven" IT model to a more intentional and value-oriented "product-like" IT model. Value is usually understood as business value. And that makes sense, as every "IT Product" in the end has to contribute...
Weekend Reading – Agile2: A New Iteration of the Agile Manifesto 20 Years after?
Dear all, the Agile Manifesto is turning 20 shortly and it seems everything has become/is in the process of finally turning agile these days. Agile has undoubtedly changed the way we work. And for the better. Still, the Agile of the original Manifesto is limited in...
Weekend Reading – The Tool Series: Create a Different View on Your Stakeholders Using the Impactors/Impacted Map
Dear all.Yet another never ending week… Most of you are probably familiar with stakeholder mapping as a technique to understand who influences a project or is being influenced by it. We have used stakeholder maps for years now and we always found that highly impacted...
Weekend Reading – The Tool Series: Create Your Organization’s Mission in Less Than 1 Hour with The Mission Statement Tool
Dear all, you may have noticed my recent LinkedIn post highlighting the 2015 McKinsey research result that transformations are 5.5 times more likely to succeed when everyone understands how her work relates to the overall organization's vision. Or, as Darden Business...
Weekend Reading – The Tool Series: Connect Outcomes to Features Using Impact Mapping
Dear all, late again. Teaching my class at Rosenheim University online took a bit longer today... Back to Weekend Reading: this week I was witness to a few intense discussions that were majorly demands/features-driven. To my mind rather pointless. Ultimately,...
Weekend Reading – The Tool Series: Design Organisations Starting from Outcomes w/the Organisation Design Tool
Dear all, It’s been a VERY busy week. I am late. We started to work with a newly cast department in the IT organisation of an international engineering corporation. For the setup-workshop we were to develop the new organisation's mission and its strategic objectives,...
Weekend Reading – The Tool Series: Using the Business Modell Canvas to Understand and Improve Your Team’s Value Delivery Model
Dear all, The ongoing disruption caused – not only – by the pandemic is increasing pressure on many businesses. Re-organisations and even layoffs are the consequence. In this context it is important to understand and demonstrate how your particular department or team...
Weekend Reading – The Tool Series: Design Your Organisation’s Culture with the Culture Design Canvas
Dear all, My summer break – and looking out of the window, summer as such – is over. The good news: Weekend Reading is back, as promised. Over the fall we will share a series of helpful tools and methods that we use in our client engagements and workshops in this...
Weekend Reading – Tame Demand Avalanches with Product Thinking
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...
Weekend Reading – Strategy Needs (Agile) Leadership
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...
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