How to use product thinking to de-risk your agile implementation.
Case Study: How product management saved Fender guitars
Posted on March 13, 2023.There are no short cuts to product success. This case study shows how Fender guitars used solid product management work to discover and define a winning, modern product strategy.
Declaring Goal Bankruptcy
Posted on January 9, 2023.Start the year by erasing all of your goals and do this instead.
Discipline-specific OKRs
Posted on November 7, 2022.Disciplines that function as services to product teams can have OKRs too. Here are two ways to think about how to do that.
OKR Leadership: Stop telling people what to do
Posted on May 2, 2022.The biggest change a leader has to make if OKRs are to succeed is to stop telling their teams what to do.
OKR Leadership: A safe culture of learning
Posted on April 25, 2022.OKRs require the psychological safety for teams to be wrong and a culture that celebrates the learning they bring from their product discovery work.
OKR Leadership: Without trust for your teams OKRs fail
Posted on April 11, 2022.Leading teams with OKRs requires several changes to the way you manage. The first and most important is trusting the team you’ve hired to do their work. Here’s how to start.
OKR Anti-pattern: Sandbagging your key results
Posted on February 7, 2022.Teams that sandbag their OKRs set easily achievable goals. Here’s why this stifles innovation and what you can do about it.
Planning work with OKRs
Posted on October 18, 2021.Planning work with OKRs exposes the uncertainty in software-driven business planning. Here's how to deal with it.
Performance management criteria for OKRs
Posted on September 20, 2021.If we're going to set new goals with OKRs, we need to change how we measure the performance of our teams. Here are 6 ways to do that.