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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...
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...
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