An experienced practitioner at the intersection of Lean-Agile, organisational development, product development, and strategy deployment, in the business of building wholehearted organisations getting their customer's needs being met.
Do you ever feel like you’re responsible for everything about your product? The strategy, the roadmap, the user experience—even the execution? Product managers often think they need to be able to take on every role, but what if that belief is more harmful than helpful? What if the best PMs aren’t the ones who try to do it all, but the ones who actively seek and rely on others’ expertise? In this…
In a lot of ways, building a company is a lot like building a product . Just like products, companies too have features, and those features then have users and qualities. With this premise in mind, let’s use product building techniques for building our company as well. We will use employee onboarding as our example, which is a critical moment for every company and employee. What is employee…
“How do we create the culture we want?” she casually suggested as the topic for the next time the class meets. Luckily, I had recently refreshed my thoughts on the topic and I felt energised for the challenge of sharing a bit of theory and practical tips. This post is an abridged version of the class, with appropriate references for those who want to dig deeper into it. A little bit of theory,…
“When a challenge in life is met by a response that is equal to it, you have success. But when the challenge moves to a higher level, the old, once successful response no longer works—it fails; thus, nothing fails like success.” — Stephen R. Covey The world is turning, in what many believes an unprecedented pace. More and more of us feel that previous successes are slipping away. Our models for…
When people are new to (agile) software development, I have found that splitting stories can be a confusing and difficult exercise for many. Splitting (also synonymous with slicing) stories is the activity of dividing stories too big for effective development into new, smaller, stories. Many good techniques and tips for splitting stories exists already (some linked to at the end of this post).…
A few days ago me and my wife bought a new bookshelf, which lead to an hour or so of reorganizing our books. During this hour of seeing all these great books we have, I got the idea of sharing some books I consider worthwhile for entrepreneurs and alike. This article is the result of that idea. The books mentioned in this article are: # Start With Why : How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone To Take…
For the last decade we’ve learned how to build products the right way. That’s great. It’s now time to ask: are we building the right products? “There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.” Peter Drucker If I were to ask you how sure you are that you’re building the right product — or feature — right now, chances are that you’re quite confident . You’ve…
There are times when heavy post-mortem examinations and reports are the right thing to do. For example, I assume that Google’s post-mortem work after the recent email phishing campaign went pretty deep. However, most of the time a more lightweight post-mortem examination and report may be quite a bit more appropriate and much less time-consuming. When an incident has occurred, there are three…
Take responsibility. Ask, listen, and ask again until you understand. “Most personality conflicts at work arise from the fact that people do not know what other people are doing and how they do their work, or what contribution the other people are concentrating on and what results they expect. And the reason they do not know is that they have not asked and therefore not been told.” Peter Drucker…