Teams, Coaching & Facilitation
Key Product Management Quotes From Zero to One
There are a few books that I consider a must-read for anyone working on products. Today I’ll be talking about my favourite ideas from Peter Thiel’s iconic book Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Are Feature Teams or Component Teams Right for Your Product?
Whenever you require more than a single development team to progress your product, you have choice: You can organise the teams around features or components. This article explains why this decision matters for product people, and it shares my advice on when feature teams are right for your product and when component teams are better suited.
The Latest from Retrium
Ultimate Guide to Agile Retrospectives: The One About Follow-Through
Chapter 6 is live! The newest chapter of the Ultimate Guide to Agile Retrospectives gives an in-depth look into how teams can be successful after the retrospective is over. The One About Follow-Through is the chapter to read if your team struggles to complete action items and create real change after your retros.
Expert Hot Seat: Biggest Retrospective Mistakes
In the latest episode of the Expert Hot Seat, the panelists discuss ways to avoid the most common retrospective mistakes, including:Â
- Using the same retrospective technique over and over and over again
- Not looking deeply at the causes of issues the team is facing
- Not having one at all
Tips & Tricks
Why Failing Agile Is So Easy
For the past years, I have had the chance to implement Agile in many different types and sizes of organizations, in two different countries and even in my own companies. The successes and failures I have accumulated along that time allowed me to compile a list of facts and thoughts that help the successful implementation of processes guided by the principles and values proposed by the Agile manifesto.
How Agile Turns Risk Into Opportunity
There was a high-end restaurant in a big city on the American West Coast that had to rethink their business of some 40 years as a result of the coronavirus crisis. One day they were in business and the next day they weren’t. What were they going to do? The first thing that they did was that they tapped into their purpose. Their purpose is to feed people. That allowed them to ask the next question: if our purpose is to feed people, then how are we going to do it?
Technical Agility
Building an Agile Enterprise Starts With Culture and Technology
The path to agility often runs directly through the CIO’s office. Responsible for digital projects that grow competitiveness, as well as driving the organization’s transition to enterprise-wide agility, CIOs must adopt change within their departments to meet these objectives. To achieve these goals, CIOs must facilitate both an agile culture and agile technology automation supported by a digital business technology platform that can adapt to quickly changing market forces.