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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...
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...
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