The Fuzzy Front End
The Fuzzy Front End is how we call everything that happens in Product Development before a single line of code is made. Let me explain it with an example from...
June 20, 2019
Estimating in Kanban
Estimating in Kanban is a hot topic. Many people ask us how to estimate projects in Kanban. Well, you don't. Learn how in this post. It is curious how in...
June 20, 2019
Kanban Maturity Assessment
The Kanban Maturity Assessment allows managers and Kanban Coaches or consultants to help the team or service evaluate and understand their progress and level of understanding of principles and practices...
June 20, 2019
Limiting WIP in Kanban
One of the main challenges when adopting Kanban is the limitation of work-in-progress (WIP). No matter the size, industry or age of the company; the concept of limiting WIP in Kanban...
June 20, 2019
Solution Focus Coaching – A Positive Approach to Change
Solution Focus coaching is a positive approach to change that focuses on what can be done rather than focusing on what is wrong. Introduction Some years ago, I was having...
May 28, 2019
Lean Product Management – Outcome-driven Innovation
Being customer-driven has become the mantra of the corporate world. However, being customer-driven is not enough and we need outcome-driven innovation. Many of the companies that are truly customer-centric still...
April 30, 2019
Lean Product Management Methodology
Lean Product Management Methodology In a previous post we were explaining what Lean Product Management is and why it is important. Lean Product Management is the combination of the traditional...
April 28, 2019
How to Win – The Six Basic Product Strategy Moves
Why is product strategy important? Product Strategy is important because it is the cornerstone of a successful product. Product Strategy it is not setting goals, writing a 50-page business case...
March 28, 2019
OKR Framework
This article is a summary of the components of the OKR framework. Introduction Objectives and Key Results (OKR) is a very popular framework for strategy deployment which has become famous...
March 28, 2019
OKR Examples
If you are new to OKR framework and you want to define OKRs for first time, it always helps to have some handy OKR examples. I have OKR examples for...
March 27, 2019
OKR Best Practices
OKR framework is not so complicated, what is really complicated is to make it work properly as it requires a change in mindset and changing deeply ingrained organizational structures and...
March 26, 2019
OKR Questions
What are OKRs? Objectives and Key Results (OKR) is a framework that addresses both the long-term strategic direction for the company and the short-term daily management activities. OKR methodology is...
March 22, 2019
Managing Stakeholders
Without a doubt managing stakeholders is a top headache for Product Managers and Product Owners. As a Product Manager you cannot build a product on your own. You need a...
March 3, 2019
The Five Key Mistakes in Product Management
There are five key mistakes most product organizations make which prevent them from achieving their growth goals and leading their market. These failures significantly reduce the probability of delivering products...
March 1, 2019
Hoshin Kanri (OKR)
The Hoshin Kanri process addresses both the long-term strategic direction for the company and the short-term daily management activities. Although, most people call it OKR nowadays. Hoshin Kanri enables improved...
March 1, 2019
The Agile Promotion Office
The Agile Promotion Office This is an internal consulting and coaching capability with the mission to provide support for the transformation at all levels. This is the role of an...
February 27, 2019
Lean Management
Lean Management in an Agile Transformation The system creates its own behavior. And, it is the responsibility of management to change and improve the system, not to manage people. Announcement...
February 27, 2019
The three mistakes of digital product organizations
According to a recent HBR blog post 72% of all new products don’t meet their revenue targets. Most new products (and companies) fail. The odds are against you. Around 75% of...
February 25, 2019
Hiring Product Owners
Right now, there are more than 300 open job positions for Product Owner only in Spain in LinkedIn. Hiring Product Owners has become a huge headache for most companies, as...
February 25, 2019
Continuous Improvement
Reorganizing in value streams will already provide huge benefits to your bottom-line, however that’s just the beginning. Lean is a never ending journey of continuous improvement towards perfection. In my...
February 20, 2019
Lean Startup Summit Berlin 2019
On 11-12 Feb 2019 took place Lean Startup Summit in Berlin. This is the conference revolving around Lean Startup with a clear focus on how to enable innovation in the...
February 13, 2019
Organize around Value Streams
Lean Organization - Value Streams Let's talk about perhaps the most important change you will have to do in your Lean Transformation towards a Lean Organization. To organize around Value...
February 13, 2019
Define Core Values
A Lean Organization requires teamwork, trust, and respect for people, so it is key to articulate your core values at the same time as you define your Lean Strategy. Think...
February 6, 2019
It’s All About People
In a truly continuous improvement environment, the best ideas will always come from the people who do the work. So, transforming the way your people think and act is the...
January 30, 2019
Lead from the Top
Conceptually, shifting from a traditional to a Lean strategy is simple and straightforward. The problem is that it is very hard to do. For Agile to work at the strategic...
January 23, 2019
Writing a book
As you will have probably noticed I'm in the process of writing a book. And, I thought I'd share my experience and learnings so other people can feel inspired and...
January 17, 2019
Lean is the Strategy
Using Lean to turn your company around has a very simple focus. You want to improve all your processes so that you vastly improve the way value is added in...
January 16, 2019
The Ten Commandments of Agile
So far, we have seen what are the pitfalls and fundamental errors in Agile adoptions. We believe that most of these errors are caused by a lack of understanding of...
January 9, 2019
What is Lean Product Management?
Product Owner, are you tired of writing User Stories and managing a meaningless backlog? Do you think your team is a feature factory? Are you developing features that are not...
January 8, 2019
Build – Measure – Learn
Build-Measure-Learn cycle was coined by Eric Ries in his book Lean Startup, and like many other concepts from Lean Startup it has been widely misunderstood. But, it is important that...
January 8, 2019
The Bottleneck Is At The Top
As Peter Drucker used to say: “The bottleneck is always at the top of the bottle.” Often times when we start working with our clients they ask us to work with...
January 2, 2019
What is Product-Market Fit
Product-Market Fit is the most important milestone in the life of a product. Product-Market Fit is being in the right market with the right product. It is a key milestone...
January 1, 2019
Six Mistakes in Digital Product Management
Six Mistakes in Digital Product Management Here, you can find a list of key mistakes that cause huge delays in time to market, frustration and a terrible waste of money...
December 23, 2018
Lean Startup
In case you are looking for a definition of Lean Startup and how can it help you as a Product Manager or Product Owner we explain it to you in...
December 21, 2018
Lack of Leadership
People do not like change. And resistance will come from every part of the company, from senior management to the teams. If your Agile adoption is not led by your...
December 20, 2018
Lean Product Management Guide
Lean Product Management Guide Lean Startup has definitely changed how we develop modern products. However, still after 15 years, most companies do not take advantage of the teachings from this...
December 16, 2018
The All Mighty Change Agents
Imagine the following situation. Like many other couples, you have problems in your relationship, and you decide to go to a couple therapist. After listening to your situation and asking...
December 13, 2018
The Evil Managers
In the Agile world many people have tried to kill management, or they regard management as a problem, whilst enforcing the role of Scrum Master or Agile Coach as the...
December 12, 2018
Failure to Innovate
Agile is not Innovation One of the capital sins of Agile is Failure to Innovate. Assuming it will be the solution to all your problems and that Agile alone, regardless...
December 5, 2018
Building the wrong thing right
This is the second capital sin of Agile. Building the wrong thing right. Let me tell you a story ... This was year 2004. As the technical lead of a...
December 3, 2018
The 5-step Guide to Effective Product Roadmaps
If you are a Product Manager, Product Owner, Head of Product or Chief Product Officer you will agree that Product Roadmaps are a nightmare and the source of many of...
December 1, 2018
The Seven Capital Sins of Agile
Over years of experience helping companies develop better digital products, we have come up with the seven key mistakes that prevent companies from benefiting from Agile. Agile works and it...
November 28, 2018
Agile didn’t solve a damn thing – Embrace Lean
Embrace Lean as your Operations Strategy Do you have the feeling that everybody is doing lots of things, super busy, but still the outcomes are below expectations? Is the quality...
November 20, 2018
Lean – Operational Excellence as a Business Strategy
We have all know stories of great ideas dying out of a poor execution. Great business models or products which don’t reach the market on-time, with the quality expected or...
November 20, 2018
Deming’s 14 Points for Lean Management
In 1982, W. Edwards Deming published Out of the Crisis, a key milestone in modern management and still not understood by most of companies nowadays. Deming offers a theory of...
November 16, 2018
The bottleneck is always at the top of the bottle
As Peter Drucker used to say The bottleneck is always at the top of the bottle. Often times when we start working with our clients they ask us to work...
November 16, 2018
Implementing OKRs
Implementing OKRs In our previous posts we talked about avoiding common pitfalls and errors when adopting OKRs and how to get started with OKRs. Now, let's see how to succeed implementing...
November 16, 2018
Lean Product Management
The Value Stream Manager In our last post, we where talking about why a better Product Owner is a Product Manager. But, what do we mean exactly by great Product Management? Great...
November 16, 2018
Get started with OKRs
In our previous post we were talking about common pitfalls and errors when adopting OKRs. Now that you know what you shouldn’t do, let’s take a look at how to...
November 16, 2018
Management 3.0: ¿Por qué?
Como diría Jurgen Appelo, "el management es demasiado importante para dejarlo a los managers." Pero eso no quiere decir que debamos prescindir del management sino que debemos proporcionar los principios,...
August 3, 2018
The Seven keys of the great Product Owner
Become a Great Product Owner As organizations evolve towards truly customer-centric end-to-end product development models, the role of the Product Owner is going to evolve. Till now, most of POs are...
July 31, 2018
Management 3.0: Lean Management for the 21st century
Since the arrival of Agile many people have tried to kill management; without much success, I must admit. But, in Lean, managers have always been a key part of the...
July 20, 2018
Succeed with OKRs
Succeed with OKRs Hi there! If you are reading this you are probably struggling with OKRs. So, keep reading, you stepped into the right place :) We will see how...
June 21, 2018
Five books every Innovation Manager should read
In order to survive 21st century’s rate of unprecedented technological change and disruption, business managers need understand the mindset, principles and practices from Lean Startup and apply them successfully in...
May 28, 2018