Tag: okrs

  • Case Study: How product management saved Fender guitars

    Case Study: How product management saved Fender guitars

    There are no short cuts to product success. This case study shows how Fender guitars used solid product management work…

  • OKR and Scrum

    OKR and Scrum

    OKR require agility to succeed. The basics of Scrum provide the exact right scaffolding for this.

  • Declaring Goal Bankruptcy

    Declaring Goal Bankruptcy

    Start the year by erasing all of your goals and do this instead.

  • What OKRs Mean for Middle Managers

    What OKRs Mean for Middle Managers

    Middle managers can strongly influence the success of OKRs. Here’s how their job changes to support these new goals.

  • Discipline-specific OKRs

    Discipline-specific OKRs

    Disciplines that function as services to product teams can have OKRs too. Here are two ways to think about how…

  • Validating key results is messy

    Validating key results is messy

    Key results are also assumptions. Here’s how to ensure you’re testing your goals as well as your feature hypotheses.

  • OKR Leadership: Stop telling people what to do

    OKR Leadership: Stop telling people what to do

    The biggest change a leader has to make if OKRs are to succeed is to stop telling their teams what…

  • OKR Leadership: A safe culture of learning

    OKR Leadership: A safe culture of learning

    OKRs require the psychological safety for teams to be wrong and a culture that celebrates the learning they bring from…

  • OKR Leadership: Without trust for your teams OKRs fail

    OKR Leadership: Without trust for your teams OKRs fail

    Leading teams with OKRs requires several changes to the way you manage. The first and most important is trusting the…

  • 3 Questions About OKRs

    3 Questions About OKRs

    Can you practice OKRs in regulated environments, in multinational corporations and with leaders who don’t give specfific goals. In short,…