Making sense of agility, scaling, OKRs, product operating models, and leadership — written from 15+ years in the field.
Strategic themes gathering dust like unused New Year's resolutions? How to apply the same outcome-oriented, empirical patterns used at the team and portfolio level to break strategy theater at the enterprise level.
Read more →Internal tool adoption stalls for the same reason products fail: building without understanding the user. What IT and Ops leaders can borrow from product management to actually move the needle on adoption.
Read more →Alice is ambitious, Bob has a real problem, Charlie has FOMO. Only one of them will get real value from a Product Operating Model. How to approach any transformation initiative with product-led thinking instead of hype.
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A conversation with Jonathan Stark on the current state of Agile as a platform — how it has matured, what platform saturation means for practitioners, and how to navigate an agile career pivot toward outcomes and away from frameworks.
Read more →Feature factories are a milestone, not a destination. Why organizations get stuck shipping features and what it takes to cross the threshold from output-focused to outcome-driven product delivery.
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Every major tech wave has a cart-before-the-horse phase. What product-led AI looks like instead: starting with customer outcomes, embedding cross-functional ownership, and exploring problems before solutions.
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