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Weekend Reading – The AI Revolution is Here: How to Get Ahead with Generative AI
“AI Will Make Us More Human, Not Less.“ – Satya Nadella, CEO Microsoft Last weekend's Open AI drama made the headlines in most newspapersworldwide next to the multiple global crises. While it appeared to be the stuff for the next Netflix mini-series (judge...
Weekend Reading – Why You Should Consider Moving Digital Product Development out of IT
““In the digital age of ‘overnight’ success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked.”” – James Dyson, British Inventor and Businessman During the past months, I have worked with various IT organizations on different aspects of digital...
Weekend Reading – Purpose, Vision, Mission – The Pyramid Needs Inverting
“The basic definition of the business and of its purpose and mission have to be translated into objectives.” – Peter Drucker, Management Consultant This morning, I reviewed our website stats and was amazed to see that a really old blog post of mine about creating...
Halloween Reading – Rules for Designing Product Organizations
“The best reason to start an organization is to make meaning; to create a product or service to make the world a better place.” – Guy Kawasaki, VC and former Head of Evangelism at Apple The last two weeks have been hectic. Therefore, this Weekend Reading had to be...
Weekend Reading – How to Successfully Manage Remote Teams
“Success in a hybrid work environment requires employers to move beyond viewing remote or hybrid environments as a temporary or short-term strategy and to treat it as an opportunity.'” – George Penn, VP at Gartner Dear all, This week, my inbox was brimming with all...
Weekend Reading – Better Planning or Team Autonomy to Increase Business Agility
“Control leads to compliance; autonomy leads to engagement.” – Daniel Pink, American Author Dear all, I am traveling this week. As a consequence, my writing time is constrained. So, I will just sketch out a train of thought that occurred to me over lunch. Everyone...
Weekend Reading – Mental Models Make the Difference Between Tech and Industrial Corporations
“What you need is a latticework of mental models in your head. And, with that system, things gradually get to fit together in a way that enhances cognition.” - Charlie Munger, Vice Chairman Berkshire Hathaway Dear all, last week, I worked with two companies to improve...
Weekend Reading – Meeting Madness: Save Your Time (and Sanity)!
“If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.'” – Dave Barry, American Journalist Dear all, vacation time is over – everybody is back at work. Actually,...
Weekend Reading – AI on Every Desk and in Every Home
“The development of AI is as fundamental as the creation of the microprocessor, the personal computer, the Internet, and the mobile phone,…” – Bill Gates, Microsoft Co-Founder and Philanthropist Dear all unnoticed by most of us, AI may have taken a major step...
Weekend Reading – Can Software Developer Productivity be Measured?
“If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as "lines produced" but as "lines spent." – Edsger Dijkstra – Dutch Mathematician and Computer Scientist Dear all Despite the vacation season, there has recently been some brouhaha about an article...
Weekend Reading – Game Over, Scrum?
"Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated." – Misquote attributed to Mark Twain Dear all, I was recently asked to keynote at two corporate Agile gatherings. Obviously, I feel very honored. But what new do I tell a gathering of Scrum Masters, POs,...
Weekend Reading – Roadmaps are not Plans
“The issue is that anytime you put a list of ideas on a document entitled ‘roadmap,’ no matter how many disclaimers you put on it, people across the company will interpret the items as a commitment.” — Marty Cagan Dear all In the few decades that I have worked...
Weekend Reading – The Benefits of Product-Oriented IT (Redux)
“Good companies manage Engineering. Great companies manage Product.” – Thomas Schranz, Co-Founder & CEO at Blossom Dear all, Last week I wrote about fighting application bloat and scope creep in (especially) IT applications. In doing so, I suggested it to...
Weekend Reading – Fight Application Bloat
“There is no such thing as scope creep, only scope gallop.” – Cornelius Fichtner, Project Management Trainer & Author Dear all Last week we kicked off yet another project to re-base an IT application where maintenance and development costs keep increasing,...
Weekend Reading – Bridging the Decision-Making Gap
“Life is filled with difficult decisions, and winners are those who make them.” – Dan Brown, American Author Dear all A survey conducted by Boston Consulting and recently reported by the Media Pioneer news portal revealed that 90% of executives in Germany tend...
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