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The Law of Two Feet – every day
In open space-style workshops/sessions there’s a concept called “The Law of Two Feet”. It means that if, at any time, you feel you are not contributing to the session, or if you are not learning something, then you should use your two feet to leave the session and find one where you can contribute and…
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ALE 2012: My presentation: “The Product Owner – The Accidental Profession”
Here you can find the slides from my presentation at the Agile Lean Europe 2012 Unconference in Barcelona this week. Download the slides Thank you to everyone who attended and gave feedback!
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On new solutions to old problems…
“Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it.”—…
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A brief memoir of my days as a barkeeper (and why ex-barkeepers make great employees)
Cocktail Group – by kurmanstaff. Over the years since I finished high school I’ve had the immense good fortune to work with a handful of remarkable people who have inspired me deeply; who have mentored me and taught me an incredible amount about myself. The first of these was not a CEO or a VP;…
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5 viral product marketing myths
“Go Viral” by Tom Fishburne. Everybody’s saying it… “Let’s make it go viral!” “We need to build in some virality.” “It should be more viral!” The problem I have encountered often recently is that many people seem to have various misconceptions about what ‘viral’ really is, what it really means – but mostly how easy…
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Dear NULL
It’s a simple thing to get someone’s name right. Yousendit had an opportunity. They had my email address from whenever I had signed up to their service in order to download some file or another. I knew the service and trusted it enough to sign up, and if I had left my email address, I…
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Seeing the future
I found a great quote from the book Meta Products (Rubino, et al) on what makes future thinkers and innovators good at innovating, and I just had to share it: “We’ve studied the ideas of some of the well-known futurologists and innovators such as Juan Enriquez, Steward Brand and Katherine Fulton among many others, and…
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The Product Vision
The Complete Product Owner Act I: The Product This post is part of the “Complete Product Owner” series. The centre-piece for any product team – the guiding north star – is the product vision. Where are we going? Why? What do we do when we get there? How will we know when we get there?…
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Attention to detail
Homer: It’s nothing big; it’s just a lot of little things. Scorpio: Homer, you can’t argue with the little things. It’s the little things that make up life. In the biography written by Walter Isacsson, Steve Jobs recalls watching his father paint the posts for the picket fence in the yard of their Cupertino home…
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The Competitive Landscape
The Complete Product Owner Act I: The Product This post is part of the “Complete Product Owner” series. Products never exist in a vacuum. Products live in a world of competitors and partners, of peripherals, networks and enablers. Products live inside an ecosystem consisting of companies, governments, regulators and consumers. To understand what your product…