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.
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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.
Whatâs the future of Agile? Agility? Agile as a career choice? Yesterday, I joined Jonathan Stark on his podcast Ditching Hourly to discuss the current state of Agile as a platform, how it has evolved over the years, and what practitioners should consider as the platform matures. Jonathan primarily focuses on advice for freelancers/consultants on ditching hourly billing through positioning, productized services, and pricing advice. If, like me, youâre a freelancer/solopreneur agile...
Alice wants her product organization to adopt a product operating model because she believes itâs the future of working. Sheâs been an early adopter of agile and lean startup methods and is constantly looking for better ways to work. Bob wants their product organization to adopt a product operating model because they have an expensive problemâthey were brought in to help scale a product organization. With 12 product teams working on a line/portfolio of products, thereâs little consistency,...
Engineers excited about LLMs, Agentic AI, RAGs, spending time going to the vendors, playing around like kids with new toys. Without a real problem in mind. Without the ability to deploy any of it in the organization (the engineers donât talk to the legal folks muchâŚ) Can you think of where so much time and energy is spent on a technical innovation without connecting it to a real problem? Of course you can⌠Mobile, Cloud, Big Data, just to think of a couple of recent examples. To be honest, I...