From Inclusive to Focused Goals using Even Over statements
Inclusive culture is good. Inclusive goals are not. How Even Over statements force the trade-off conversations your OKRs need to have real teeth and drive actual focus.
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Making sense of agility, scaling, OKRs, product operating models, and leadership — written from 15+ years in the field.
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Product Operating Model for Shared Services and Business Operations Teams
How to apply product operating model principles to shared services and business operations teams to improve handoffs, flow, and business readiness.
Read more →It's all in the Name
The names your teams use for Epics, Features, and Stories reveal whether you're in solution mode or outcome mode. Why renaming is more than semantics — it reshapes how your organization thinks about what it builds.
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Product Ownership - To Be Or Not To Be - The Product Leader's bind
When product managers aren't excited to take on product ownership, that's a sniff test for team topology. How to help CPOs reshape component-oriented teams into empowered product teams that want to own outcomes.
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"Transformed". Yet still the same. An All Too Familiar Agile Story
They formed agile teams. They track stories in JIRA. They do three questions daily. They've "transformed." And yet nothing meaningful has changed. The all-too-familiar gap between agile theater and real product orientation.
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Breaking the SAFe Season 1
Season 1 of Breaking the SAFe: an honest exploration of where SAFe implementations go wrong and what practitioners can do to course-correct before the transformation stalls.
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