This post was originally published to my newsletter subscribers (13k of them now). If you’d like to get these in your inbox sign up here Every company I work with these days claims to be using or trying to use Objectives and Key Results. Conceived at Intel and popularised by John Doerr and more recently … Continue reading You suck at OKRs. Here’s why.
Office Hours: A New Way to Collaborate
Over the past several years, as I’ve been building my coaching and consulting business, I’ve received a lot of feedback from teams who, for one reason or another, were not in a position to take advantage of a full-scale engagement with me. Maybe it was a budget concern or maybe it was a team or … Continue reading Office Hours: A New Way to Collaborate
How Blending Lean, Agile, and Design Thinking Will Transform Your Team
Building a stronger workflow for developers, designers, and product managers leads to better cross-team collaboration — and better products. The following is an adapted excerpt from Lean vs. Agile vs. Design Thinking by designer, team leader, and business coach Jeff Gothelf. In 2016, I was preparing with clients for an upcoming training workshop focused on coaching a … Continue reading How Blending Lean, Agile, and Design Thinking Will Transform Your Team
Did Lean Startup fail at GE?
Josh Seiden & I have received tremendously positive feedback to the launch of Sense & Respond Press. Our newest venture, Sense & Respond Press, publishes short, beautiful, actionable books by leading practitioners in the field of innovation, digital transformation, product management, and design. Our readers are smart, busy, practical innovators. Our authors are experts working … Continue reading Did Lean Startup fail at GE?
Digital Transformation Is Not Innovation
Josh Seiden & I are thrilled to announce the launch of Sense & Respond Press. Our newest venture, Sense & Respond Press, publishes short, beautiful, actionable books by leading practitioners in the field of innovation, digital transformation, product management, and design. Our readers are smart, busy, practical innovators. Our authors are experts working in the … Continue reading Digital Transformation Is Not Innovation
Funding agility. What’s the right model?
16 5-star reviews for Sense & Respond:“Gothelf and Seiden starkly highlight that our twentieth-century management systems and practices simply cannot function in a world of constant change. In this insightful and practical book, they provide crucial principles and techniques for becoming a ‘sense and respond’ organization.” — Rita Gunther McGrathYou should grab a copy here and buy … Continue reading Funding agility. What’s the right model?
Roadmaps are linear. Software projects aren’t.
15 5-star reviews for Sense & Respond:“some great case studies and an extraordinarily clear case for the application of lean/agile methods across business. I’ll certainly be recommending Sense & Respond to every manager I know.” Don’t have a copy yet? Grab a copy here and buy one for your boss too.This post was originally published to my … Continue reading Roadmaps are linear. Software projects aren’t.
Execs care about revenue. How do we get them to care about outcomes?
This post was originally published to my newsletter subscribers (12k of them now). If you’d like to get these in your inbox sign up here. If there’s one metric that matters to all executives, it’s revenue. The amount of money the company is generating is core to it being able to do pretty much everything … Continue reading Execs care about revenue. How do we get them to care about outcomes?
Optimizing your team’s velocity (of learning)
Here is what people are saying about Sense & Respond:“some great case studies and an extraordinarily clear case for the application of lean/agile methods across business. I’ll certainly be recommending Sense & Respond to every manager I know.” Don’t have a copy yet? Grab a copy here and buy one for your boss too.This post was originally … Continue reading Optimizing your team’s velocity (of learning)
Intrapreneurship is a lie. So I became a consultant.
This post was originally published to my newsletter subscribers (12k of them now). If you’d like to get these updates via email sign up here. I was lucky enough to visit New Zealand in February. This is a picture I took of the Southern Alps as we flew in the tiniest plane ever to Milford … Continue reading Intrapreneurship is a lie. So I became a consultant.