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Evidence-Informed – Making decisions informed by evidence. This includes decisions such as: Opinions, Convictions, Lack of Trust, Power dynamics, and Impatience make it hard to introduce evidence-informed thinking into an organization’s day-to-day decisions, whether at the level of a Product Manager/Owner, Portfolio Leader, or the C-suite. Over the years, I’ve collected a few cultural hacks …
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. There are many ideas on the table. The leadership team realized that 1. They need to focus, and …
In this video, I explore the core issues many organizations face with their OKR (Objectives and Key Results) practices. We’ll revisit the fundamental principles that often get lost in the process of setting and tracking OKRs and explore how to fix misaligned strategies. Tune in for actionable insights to help you reset your approach, align …
Projects and initiatives are second-grade citizens in a Product Operating Model world. The organization worked hard to organize around products, creating empowered product teams, each with its product manager/owner focused on a product goal that hopefully aligns with the organization’s larger strategy. At scale, you might have Product Groups and even Product Portfolios, each empowered …
“One of the things that we do differently is that we treat our company as a product” – Jason Fried – CEO and co-founder of 37signals (on Wisdom From The Top with Guy Raz) “Culture is a Product. Every company builds two products, one is the product they build for their customers, and the other …
My clients are often frustrated that their transformation isn’t taking off despite promising results (e.g., outsized outcomes and speed by leveraging agile ways of working in a strategic initiative). One path that leaders often take is to follow initial promising results with a mandate to follow new ways of working throughout the organization. This is …
Meet Fanny. Fanny is the founder of a successful startup. Fanny comes from a product background She starts to feel overwhelmed. She wants to stay involved but understands that even a superwoman like her has limits. While researching how other leaders are tackling this, someone on the VC Portco Slack channel she’s on shared an HBR …
“We are a team providing services, why should we care about this new Product Operating Model?” Meet Yuval. Yuval is an engineer on the IT networking team. They are a shared services team responsible for the organization’s networks as well as helping application teams in his organization get their applications working in production. It is …
I’ve been spending some time working on my business recently. It’s time for some dogfooding and drinking my own champagne. I’m spending quite a bit of time in my Lean Canvas (actually pondering several different ones), working on deep Ideal Client Personas (aka Dream Clients, Lighthouse Clients), using my Personal Kanban much more, and thinking …