The OKR cycle diagram showing 2 strategic activities leading to a circular set of 5 circles showing team level activities.

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.

OKRs and User Story Mapping

Posted on April 24, 2023.

User story mapping is a powerful tool for coming up with timely, user-focused key results with your product development team.

Product managers are navigators of uncertainty

Posted on April 17, 2023.

Modern product managers are not in charge of the production line in the feature factory. They job is to navigate a product through the uncertainty of idea to production.

Process Experiments

Posted on April 3, 2023.

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

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Writing unambiguous objectives

Posted on February 20, 2023.

OKRs should have an opinion. Without one, teams lack clear direction. Here's how to write unambiguous objective statements.

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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.