A 90-Day Plan for Recovering Kanban-ers
There is growing unrest. As quickly as lean and ultra-lean approaches to software development have emerged, so has a nasty backlash. We see this daily as we talk with…
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I'm Agile But My CEO Could Not Care Less
The developers and I always want to get on with it and build stuff in a sprint-to-sprint fashion, yet our CEO wants to tell everyone where the company will be in two…
Fear is Not What is Holding You Back
Do you often wonder why you sacrifice your personal aspirations for what’s comfortable? Have you always wanted to pursue an idea or start that company, but have given up…
Buyer Personas and Product Management
We all build the best products when we instinctively understand the challenges our customers are facing and what they are trying to accomplish. This is easy if we do the…
Blame Your Product Manager
Sharing product strategy with the team is vital to being a great product manager. Learn the 3 key parts of a successful strategy so you can build winning products…
You’re Not Agile Unless You’re “agile”
The single most common question that I run into nowadays is which process is the “best” one to be Agile, with a capital “A.” And people are often surprised when I tell…
The Alpha Product Manager
Alpha product managers have a few traits in common. Discover the top 3 ways alpha product managers outshine most leaders.
How I Was Unbanned from Hacker News
Somehow I managed to become what I thought was hellbanned from Hacker News. I was ready to apologize for sinning — to bow down to the Internet gods of geeky and fresh…
VCs Will Not Save You from the Startup Death Spiral
Your startup is in a death spiral if the following is true — your team is making more and more radical bets, despite fewer and fewer indicators that your efforts will be…
Scrum — Your False God of Innovation
Scrum will make a zealot out of you. And a growing number of product managers and engineering teams are fervent disciples. The problem is that it does not lead to…
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