Here’s one major reason why your OKRs are enabling waterfall projects and not product orientation. And its related to the common advice to focus on Outcome OKRs … We constantly talk about moving from outputs to outcome OKRs. Providing alignment to the real goal and enabling flexibility and discovery. What we should talk about more …
Agile marketing helps marketing organizations develop better campaigns faster. It helps marketers find sustainable pace and flow in the hectic marketing world by leveraging Scrum and Kanban. Team members act as “Mini CMOs” – thinking cross-functionally and are empowered to deliver results. BUT When there’s a problem or opportunity requiring collaboration with other functions… Agile …
“How disappointed will you be if we won’t have this standing meeting anymore?” Let’s be honest – do any of you expect to see a “very disappointed” answer from the meeting participants? (If you do – let me know! I want to know your secret!) If there’s anything competing with Agile in terms of how …
How would you feel if you could no longer work the way we work here? Sean Ellis, the OG Growth Hacker, came up with the PMF survey question, which has become one of (if not the) established ways to gauge Product Market Fit: If more than 40% of your existing customers answer βVery Disappointed,β you …
“We trained 1359 people!” “we transformed 127 teams” Enough with the vanity metrics. Ever wonder how your change initiative is REALLY doing? Think of your organization as an internal market for the change. Consider Pirate Metrics (AARRR) to see how your change “Product” is doing in this market. Acquisition (or awareness) β are people discovering our …
Do you ever feel like your goals are too inclusive? Being inclusive is essential for culture but not so good for setting goals. You want your goals to mean something. They shouldn’t be an excuse to enable you to continue to spread your attention all over. A question you can ask about your goal/s is …
If you’re a healthcare provider, what is your product? This question surfaces when these organizations try to adopt a Product Operating Model or move from project management to a product-oriented organization (and yes, there’s quite an overlap between these two ) I like to consider this from the perspective of the customerβin this case, the …
FlowImpact Yoga, a fast-growing network of studios, continues using the Think It, Build It, Ship It, Tweak It operating system. On the last employee survey, they saw improvements in cross-company collaboration and goal clarity, which makes the mediocre results in Decision-Making an area to try to improve. In a leadership team meeting, they decided to …
“PMs work on the π½πΏπΌπ±ππ°π. Product leaders work on the π½πΏπΌπ±ππ°π πΌπΏπ΄.” – Ed Biden Let’s take it one step further. Product Leaders should work on the Product Organization using a Product Approach. Successful Product Leaders I worked with applied their Product chops to working on their Org. They Hypothesize, Experiment, Keep options open, Inspect …
FlowImpact Yoga is a rising power in the fitness industry. A PE firm has just purchased it, and its leadership is hard at work, making the best of the holding period to grow and improve the business.Β There are many ideas on the table. The leadership team realized that 1. They need to focus, and …