What should be included in a business case?

Posted on September 4, 2023.

Most enterprise companies require business cases to fund work. Most business cases are fabrications. What should we actually put in our business cases?

Word Salad

Posted on June 26, 2023.

If you can’t answer a question about your job or product in a clear, concise way you may be guilty of creating a word salad.

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The Product is the Variable

Posted on May 29, 2023.

In the past, we've never doubted that we were going to ship the product. In a continuous world the product is now the variable.

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Forget Agile. The goal is agility.

Posted on May 15, 2023.

We are always going to make a plan. Inevitably parts of that plan are going to be wrong. What you do at that moment makes all the difference.

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The OKR Cycle

Posted on May 1, 2023.

What does a complete cycle of planning and delivering on OKRs look like. Here's an example.

Process Experiments

Posted on April 3, 2023.

How to use product thinking to de-risk your agile implementation.

3 Steps to Telling A Compelling Story

Posted on March 27, 2023.

Here's a simple, 3 step process for putting together a compelling story that can influence any team or audience into aligned action.

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Bias for action

Posted on February 13, 2023.

Analysis paralysis is a team momentum killer. Biasing for action builds both learning and decision making chops. Here's how.