Tag: Systems

  • Part Three – Alternative measures? (Velocity needs to die)

    Part Three – Alternative measures? (Velocity needs to die)

    Part One looked at Velocity, what it is, how it gets abused and what the typical result of that is – and therefore the need for an alternative. Part Two then considered what “agility” means, with three overlapping principles that we want to try and find some measures for. Now we want to look at…

  • Internal Product Management: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly

    Internal Product Management: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly

    Applying Product Management to “Internal Products” can be a bit strange. Sometimes it feels a bit like trying to make a square peg fit into a round hole. Having observed lots of organisations (mostly large, some small) struggle with aspects of this, it’s something I’ve been mulling over for years now. Earlier this month I…

  • Relaxing constraints, moving mountains

    Relaxing constraints, moving mountains

    A sorely underutilised way to tilt the playing field in Product Development is to simply break the rules that everyone else is playing by. This “thinking different” is often the underlying enabler to many successful products and business models. Southwest did it with completely ridiculous turnaround times, which completely changed the economics of running an airline. AirBnB are…

  • Planning for success

    Planning for success

    During the first World War Winston Churchill famously lost his job as First Lord of the Admiralty as a result of the failed