”There is nothing that reduces the need to anticipate the future as much as the ability to respond rapidly and effectively to whatever it turns out be.” - Management f-LAWS, Russell L Ackoff and Herbert J. Addison

Awesome day at the office today when we had the great privilege to be visited by the amazing Woody Zuill! A big thanks for the inspiring day Woody Zuill , it was greatly appreciated!

Great summary of a great PM/PO!

4 of 5 stars to Escaping the Build Trap by Melissa Perri goodreads.com/review/show/27…

4 of 5 stars to The Bottleneck Rules by Clarke Ching goodreads.com/review/show/31…

4 of 5 stars to Accelerate by Nicole Forsgren goodreads.com/review/show/30…

I just posted the overview article for my upcoming series on product strategy: svpg.com/product-strate…

Out of all the poorly named ideas from #Scrum (and now proliferating through the "#agile" ecosystem), the product "backlog" is possiblity the poorest. A list of "things left to do" does not marry well with the idea of a continuously evolving list of *options* based on insights.

4 of 5 stars to The Five Temptations of a CEO by Patrick Lencioni goodreads.com/review/show/34…

4 of 5 stars to The Unicorn Project by Gene Kim goodreads.com/review/show/34…

4 of 5 stars to Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener goodreads.com/review/show/34…

4 of 5 stars to Team Topologies by Matthew Skelton goodreads.com/review/show/35…

I read Leadership is Language by L. David Marquet goodreads.com/review/show/36…

I read What You Do Is Who You Are by Ben Horowitz goodreads.com/review/show?id…

4 of 5 stars to The Cold Start Problem by Andrew Chen goodreads.com/review/show/47…

4 of 5 stars to Lean Vs. Agile Vs. Design Thinking by Jeff Gothelf goodreads.com/review/show/22…

4 of 5 stars to Joy, Inc. by Richard Sheridan goodreads.com/review/show/18…

4 of 5 stars to Managing Humans by Michael Lopp goodreads.com/review/show/23…

Reminder that it takes just as much effort (time, money, staff, etc.) to build the wrong thing as it does the right thing. Problem discovery is under appreciated as a practice in software engineering, especially when compared to problem solving.

There’s a reason sprint review is not called sprint demo. Sprint reviews weren't meant to be a one-way narrative report of what features have been completed; rather a collaborative, actionable exploration of what's been delivered & how it will affect the product going forward.