Weekend Reading
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Weekend Reading – A Corporate Operating System: Part 2- Strategy
“However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.” — Sir Winston Churchill Dear all, In the previous WR, I introduced my thoughts about the elements of a “corporate operating system” as the enablers of success and resilience in today’s...
Weekend Reading – A Corporate Operating System: Part 1 – Purpose
"The pursuit of efficiency was once a laudable goal, but being effective in today’s world is less a question of optimising for a known (and relatively stable) set of variables than responsiveness to a constantly shifting environment. Adaptability, not efficiency, must...
Weekend Reading – Humans are not Resources
Dear all When I wrote about team topologies a few weeks ago, I introduced you to the idea that different purposes may require different team types and setups to create effective and flow-oriented organizations. Teams In writing this, I stipulated that there is a...
Weekend Reading – Focus Means Saying „no“ to Stakeholders
“People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the 100 other good ideas that there are." – Steve Jobs Dear all, This year, I have worked with a range of Product- (both in hard- and...
Weekend Reading – Building Effective Organizations Using Team Topologies
“If the architecture of the system and the architecture of the organisation, are at odds. The architecture of the organisation wins." – Ruth Malan, Software Architecture Consultant Dear all Fundamentally, all organizations are made up of teams. Teams are the...
Weekend Reading – Five Key Factors for Agile Success
“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.” – Stephen Hawking Dear all, For about ten years now, we have been advising product- and innovation organizations on pragmatic strategies and agile working models. In developing these models with the teams, we quickly...
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)...
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