Are You Struggling to Scale Your Organization ? Need agility but dubious of process BS/dogma? I share reflective, pragmatic, principled takes on how to approach scaling your organization leveraging the essence (rather than theater) of product operating models, agile practices and frameworks, and business operating systems such as EOS and OKRs.
đĄâď¸đ Sniffing your Product Orientation Maturity using Team Names
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Persistence Pioneers UI Architects Embedding Engineers Refactor Rebels Sprint Sprinters Integration Innovators Audio Overview Creators Mind Map Builders YouTube Insights Team Scalability Savants Podcast Summarization Squad Knowledge Connectors Can you guess which product these teams are working on? Letâs say your organization has more âUI Architectsâ or âPersistence Pioneersâ than âKnowledge Connectorsâ or âYoutube Insightsâ. What does it mean about your Product Pyramid? Hereâs a party trick for you: Want a quick sniff test to determine whether your teams are empowered to focus on and deliver outcomes? Look at their names. (Still wondering which Product these teams are working on? NotebookLM) âRead Sniffing your Product Orientation Maturity using Team Names On Your Browserâ â Yours, |
Scaling w/ Agility
Are You Struggling to Scale Your Organization ? Need agility but dubious of process BS/dogma? I share reflective, pragmatic, principled takes on how to approach scaling your organization leveraging the essence (rather than theater) of product operating models, agile practices and frameworks, and business operating systems such as EOS and OKRs.
Hey Reader, Before you fix teams, fix the system they operate in. Most organizations focus their improvement efforts at the team, program, or product level while maintaining the same organizational operating systemâhow they make decisions, fund work, and measure success. These teams might be using the latest and greatest processes (Agile, Product Model, Lean Startup, take your pick) but they still need to manage countless dependencies. The funding and GTM processes are still following classic...
When Vered and I got married, my father-in-law gave me a very nice watch as a wedding gift. I didnât wear a watch that often at the time. I wore the watch, but it didnât transform me. It provided the service of telling the time, but even back in 2004, we had phones that had clocks. And I was and am pretty punctual so didnât need that transformation. (And when youâre in Engineering/IT leadership, nobody cares about the watch you wear⌠at least in Israel⌠) Donât tell Eli, but that watch spent...
âGenAI can enable cheaper, faster experimentation / discovery (it compresses the truth curve by reducing the cost of pretotyping style product experimentation techniques)â (Yours truly, in yesterdayâs insight on how AI can really help you build better products) This statement seems to have hit a nerve with reader Elad, who is product leader at a cybersecurity scaleup: âNot everyone can do this⌠New companies, sure. Larger, established companies are knee-deep in mountains of code,...