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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...
Weekend Reading – My Favorite Product Management Blogs
Dear all, it's been a few weeks since I wrote the last Weekend Reading. Just too much going on. We have done a few Product Management-related projects recently. As Product Management is still somewhat less understood in Europe (some of our definitions here) – I have...
Weekend Reading – Product Roadmaps: Replace Features with Product Goals
Dear all, Before signing off into my – pandemically constrained – vacation, the last thing I discussed late last Friday with a client, was how to best create a roadmap for his department's internal product: How far into the future should it display features and what...
Weekend Reading – Mod Scooters, Frankenstein Applications, and Product-Based IT
Dear all,as you may have noticed, there was no Weekend Reading for the past two weeks. Inspired by some recent workshop discussions, I intended to write a quick post on product-based IT. However, as the subject is complex, I ended up with a rather long treatise. Even...
Weekend Reading – Your Software Will be a Copy of Your Communication Structure
Dear all, Last week I wrote about scaling frameworks and the desire to manage the complex dependencies between different parts of IT or development organisations using them. If organisations do not seem to deliver the intended results there may be another factor at...
Weekend Reading – Scaling Frameworks: Is it Safe to Apply SAFe (w/o Adapting it)?
Dear all, It's been yet another busy week, so I am late again (our communication OKRs need to be updated with a KR for “Weekend Reading’s” punctuality, I suppose 😉 ). As many of you know one of our core areas of work over the past three years is "product-oriented...
Weekend Reading – Creating Product Strategies (w/o a Company Strategy)
Dear all, A very late 'weekend reading' this time. Lots of work and then some problems with our heating system during the weekend. Do I need to tell you more? We are currently working on some 'Product Oriented IT' projects that reframe "Products" from the rather...
Weekend Reading – Create a Strategy to Increase Your Impact
Dear all, a happy and – most of all – healthy new year to you all! Barely back at work and already in the middle of the Maelstrom again? Loads of to-dos – without obvious priorities? Maybe it's time for a more strategic approach. Per Harvard’s strategy guru Michael...
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 –...
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