Continuously Deploying Points of View
Applying continuous deployment thinking to ideas and perspectives: publishing thinking iteratively rather than waiting for the perfect article. The case for continuous intellectual deployment.
Read more →Insights
Making sense of agility, scaling, OKRs, product operating models, and leadership — written from 15+ years in the field.
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Agile ·
Continuous Deployment - Vanity or Transformational Capability?
Continuous deployment is often pursued as a vanity metric rather than a flow enabler. The conditions under which it genuinely transforms delivery vs when it creates false confidence.
Read more →Scaling Your Product Org w/ Product Operations
Product Operations is the connective tissue of a scaled product organization — managing tooling, processes, metrics, and the feedback loops that keep product teams effective.
Read more →Developing your Product-oriented Portfolio Using a Product-oriented Approach
Apply product thinking to the portfolio transformation itself: iterative rollout, validated learning, and outcome-oriented milestones instead of waterfall transformation plans.
Read more →Embarking on Your Product-Oriented Lean Portfolio Management Journey
Starting your Lean Portfolio Management journey: organizing around value streams, shifting from project to product funding, and building the muscles for portfolio-level agility.
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Flow ·
Stop Focusing on Utilization. Start Focusing on Flow
Optimizing for 100% utilization creates inventory backlogs and hidden waste. Why Theory of Constraints thinking — find the bottleneck, subordinate everything else — is the smarter path to organizational throughput.
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