Category: agile
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Forget Agile. The goal is agility.
We are always going to make a plan. Inevitably parts of that plan are going to be wrong. What you…
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OKRs and User Story Mapping
User story mapping is a powerful tool for coming up with timely, user-focused key results with your product development team.
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Product managers are navigators of uncertainty
Modern product managers are not in charge of the production line in the feature factory. They job is to navigate…
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Process Experiments
How to use product thinking to de-risk your agile implementation.
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Talking to customers is not a waste of a developer’s time
Everyone should talk to customers. Most companies buy the idea. They also believe it’s a waste of time with developers.…
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Bias for action
Analysis paralysis is a team momentum killer. Biasing for action builds both learning and decision making chops. Here’s how.
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What’s the difference between a user outcome and a business outcome?
Outcomes are measures of behavior. Here’s the difference between a business outcome and a user outcome and why it matters.
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Why aren’t learning and experimentation corporate values?
Despite decades of advice and proof that building learning into our work improves results, organisations are still resistant. Why is…
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OKR and Scrum
OKR require agility to succeed. The basics of Scrum provide the exact right scaffolding for this.
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Everyone Must Talk to Customers
Whether you’re a leader, engineer or someone else who isn’t usually associated with “getting to know the customer”, there’s no…