Is it a Product Operating Model? Or is it Stage-gates?
Many organizations claim to adopt a Product Operating Model but retain stage-gate thinking under the surface. How to tell the difference and what to do about it.
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Making sense of agility, scaling, OKRs, product operating models, and leadership — written from 15+ years in the field.
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How ARAS Software Is Agile about How They Scale Agile
How ARAS Software scaled from startup to 60+ engineers — adopting SAFe for alignment at scale, then evolving beyond it when rigid PI Planning became a drag on the throughput and innovation they originally installed it to protect.
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When Traction Becomes Friction: How to Upgrade Your Operating System for Speed and Uncertainty
When your Business Operating System creates traction but the goals themselves are uncertain, you need agility to know whether you are marching in the right direction — not just executing faster.
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How to Upgrade Your Scaling SMB's Operating System Without Losing Agility
Growth is supposed to feel like acceleration — for most 50-500 person companies, it feels like wading through mud. Four systemic traps that slow scaling companies and how to escape them without sacrificing agility.
Read more →AI Isn’t Failing — Our Operating Systems Are
95% of AI projects fail — not because the models are wrong, but because organizations use project-mode management for high-uncertainty work. How agile operating principles change the AI success rate.
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Navigating the Product Operating Model Landscape - An Audio Series
An audio series for product and technology leaders who want concrete steps toward becoming an empowered product organization — without the slide decks and theory-heavy frameworks.
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