I recently came across the following tweet (thanks @mrcthompson!) which furiously sparked in an internal crisis of conscious: A checklist for safety; do you feel: Safe to experiment? Safe to be wrong? Safe to share your thoughts? Safe to be who you are? Safe to challenge something you disagree with? Safe to not know the …
As Product professionals, we typically understand the role that culture plays in helping (or hurting) our ability to deliver valuable outcomes through problem solving. Autonomy is built on trust and trust in built on a culture that is unafraid. But what happens when your product culture is one built on fear? Fear of accountability and …
As Product professionals, we’ve all be faced with change. This is a consistent part of the job and one of the reasons I’ve enjoyed being in the Product space for the last 8+ years. As Product professionals, we understand that there are two types of change: Change with context Change without context When we experience …
The scenario: It’s sprint review day! Your teams have been working all sprint to deliver on the stories that have been handed down by your Delivery Stream and now you’re up front with your team sitting panel style like the rest of the other Release Trains getting questions about your stories by SVP’s and other …
When you think of quarterly planning, what comes to mind? Epics clear and focused with a solid problem statement? Features are defined to the point where the outcomes are easily understandable and communicable? That is what comes to mind for me. So what bad things happen when we don’t have this shared clarity? Well… Let’s …
We’ve seen the quote before, good people don’t survive in bad systems. But what does a bad system look like? There are many symptom to a bad system and this series will explore those from the view point of being in the everyday trenches of one. This is my product story and hopefully it serves …