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.
Leaner Portfolio Management
Tackling Strategy Theater - Fractals To The Rescue (Yet Again)
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.
Mastering Organizational Traction Or Portfolio Agility?
Organizational traction and portfolio agility are the same path. Why leaders pursuing either goal inevitably arrive at the need to manage a portfolio of investments with flow-based thinking.
How To Choose An Owner For a Cross-Organization Initiative
A practical framework for selecting initiative owners in a product-oriented organization: why ownership is about Why and What more than How, and how to avoid the accountability vacuum on cross-product work.
How To Shift from Project to Product at the Portfolio level - A Scrum.org Community Q&A Podcast
The project-to-product shift starts at the team level but only truly lands when the portfolio follows. A roadmap for making it happen at the funding and governance level.
How Can We Nudge a Product Team To Be More Flexible?
When a stable product team is misaligned with strategic priorities: how to evaluate flexibility needs, protect empowerment principles, and make the minimum effective structural adjustments without undermining team flow.