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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 –...
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...
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