Making sense of agility, scaling, OKRs, product operating models, and leadership — written from 15+ years in the field.
Projects are second-class citizens in a Product Operating Model — until a strategic cross-product initiative shows up. How to manage projects without reverting to waterfall while preserving product team empowerment.
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Jason Fried, Dharmesh Shah, and other founders on treating the organization itself as a product — continuously discovered, iterated, and improved with the same discipline as your customer-facing products.
Read more →Why transformation initiatives lose momentum: the shift from burning platform to nice-to-have. How to keep organizational change alive after the initial crisis passes.
Read more →A founder can't own everything — but checking out isn't the answer either. A practical taxonomy for deciding when to Own, Coach, Delegate, or Learn based on strategic importance and your own expertise.
Read more →Why the best engineers push for a product operating model: autonomy, clear ownership, and the end of endless coordination overhead. The engineer perspective on organizational design.
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Dogfooding agility in a consulting business: why every business runs on an operating system, how systems thinking reveals the right constraint to invest in, and what happens when you apply cross-functional product thinking to your own growth.
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