Tag: Product Management
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Why are you working on that?
Shared purpose and alignment come from a broad understanding of strategy. Here’s how to help your teams know why they…
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Why you should map outcomes to impact metrics
Visualizing the connection between what customers do and how the business fares ensures we’re focusing on the most important goal.…
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OKR Anti-pattern: Sandbagging your key results
Teams that sandbag their OKRs set easily achievable goals. Here’s why this stifles innovation and what you can do about…
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Storytelling – A Product Manager’s Secret Weapon
Processes, methods and deliverables receive the heavy focus of product management training but without a compelling story they can all…
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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,…
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What if your OKRs are wrong?
Your objectives and key results are assumptions. At times they will be wrong. Here’s how to handle a situation where…
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Incentives vs The Right Behavior
Managing to outcomes works well if we’re also monitoring negative behavior. If we’re not, we risk real world negative consequences.
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Should we use OKRs for everything?
We use OKRs to set goals. Should all of our goals then use OKRs? This article discusses which goals make…
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Why does planning require a “season?”
We spend a tremendous amount of time planning next year’s work. We don’t need an entire season to do this.…
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OKR Tracking Tool (free template)
Here is a simple, free tool to track your objectives and key results. It’s designed to help get your teams…