Think It, Build It, Ship It, Tweak It: A Fable
A practical fable for running business initiatives as evidence-based bets using a right-to-left Think/Build/Ship/Tweak flow.
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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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Projects in a Product Operating Model World
Projects get treated as second-class in a product operating model until a cross-product initiative shows up. How to run them without reverting to waterfall.
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Company as a Product
Jason Fried, Dharmesh Shah, and other founders on treating the organization as a product: discovered and improved with the same discipline as what you sell.
Read more →Transformation Blues: Nice-to-Have to Must-Have
Why transformation initiatives lose momentum as the burning platform fades into nice-to-have, and how to keep change alive after the crisis passes.
Read more →Situational Leadership: Involvement vs Ownership
A founder can't own everything, but checking out isn't the answer either. How to decide when to Own, Coach, Delegate, or Learn, and on what.
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Lazy Engineers Love The Product Operating Model
Why the best engineers push for a product operating model: autonomy, clear ownership, and the end of endless coordination overhead.
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