It's the end of another quarter and your department just struggled to fit the list of initiatives they would either like to do or have been asked to do by their stakeholders into the OKR (Objectives and Key Results) structure because management has noticed that companies like Google and Spotify and using it and reaping… Continue reading Prerequisites for introducing OKRs
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Lean delivery teams: moving beyond efficiency
Product experts, such as Marty Cagan, have talked about the benefits of having product teams. While I agree with all the benefits that a product team provides, the reality is that lots of highly scaled organizations have feature teams and delivery teams. Rather than looking down on them and dismissing their setup, I like to… Continue reading Lean delivery teams: moving beyond efficiency
Agility in 5 minutes
When Delivery Hero's CFO invited me to speak in his department's all hands last week, I asked myself, "How can I explain the essence of agility in 5 minutes?" A good way to see if you've understood a concept is by explaining it to a child in as few words as possible. This task wasn't… Continue reading Agility in 5 minutes