Weekend Reading
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Weekend Reading – The Laws of Simplicity
“If a thing can be done adequately by means of one, it is superfluous to do it by means of several; for we observe that nature does not employ two instruments where one suffices.“ Thomas Aquinas, Medieval Philosopher and Saint Dear all, A few...
Weekend Reading – Improve Your Agile – not Your Scrum!
“This better way of working should always be leading, not Scrum. If your Scrum is at the forefront, you are either at the early stages of your Scrum adoption OR you're doing something wrong.” Marten Dalmijn, Head of Product at Rodeo Dear all,Recently, well-respected...
Weekend Reading – Are OKRs Worth the Effort?
"Only 55% of the middle managers we have surveyed can name even one of their company’s top five priorities." HBR authors Donald Sull et al. Dear all, "OKRs seem to have become a bit of a management fad." one of our prospects recently started the discussion "Are they...
Weekend Reading – 3 Videos to Help You Weather the Storm
" 'Unlearn' – To move away from the mindsets and behaviors that were effective in the past, but now limit our success." Barry O'Reilly – Business Advisor and Venture Builder Dear all, with a storm raging over large parts of Europe, I thought it might be a nice idea to...
Weekend Reading – Focus on a North Star Metric
Dear all, happy, healthy, and successful new year to you all! New year, old discussions. Our first client conversations this year again were about how to increase focus and alignment. Everybody appears to have too many things on their plate (or too many new year's...
Year End Reading – Time to Become Product-Led
Dear all, The year is almost over. The time to take stock and reflect. The good news: Despite the challenges posed by the environment (the dreaded virus continues to impose too many constraints upon all of us!), many of our clients have made a lot of progress this...
Weekend Reading – We are Still Getting Agile Wrong
“No plan survives the contact with the enemy” – Helmuth von Moltke Dear all, it's amazing. More than 20 years after the Agile Manifesto we are still discussing what Agile is. And – to my mind – often are getting it wrong. Some of the "wrongness" is out of convenience....
Weekend Reading – Product Decisions Come First!
Dear all, hope your weekend has been as sunny as ours! While walking Moritz, our dog, in the snow (we do already have quite a bit of snow up here in the valleys!) yesterday, I came to the conclusion that we often think product development backwards. An example:...
Weekend Reading – Strategy Does not Have to be Scary
“Do you believe in destiny? That even the powers of time can be altered for a single purpose?”— Bram Stoker's Dracula Dear all, it's been a while (again). Not because we are getting lazy. On the contrary. New clients with old challenges (implementing OKRs sensibly)...
Weekend Reading – Transcend the IT Mindset for Digital Product Success
“At the end of the day, your job isn’t to get the requirements right — your job is to change the world.”– Jeff Patton, Veteran Product Manager and Consultant Dear all, It’s been a very busy weekend and start into the week, so I am very late (or early for next weekend...
Weekend Reading – The Great Summer Reads
Dear all, we're moving house and so it's been a rather busy summer for us... For that reason I had to skip a few issues of Weekend Reading recently. As there is one week of summer holidays left, I'll still share three essential books that I consider worth reading or...
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 – 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...
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