Shared purpose and alignment come from a broad understanding of strategy. Here’s how to help your teams know why they are doing their work.
What is Agile?
Posted on January 3, 2022.You can laud the idea and still be critical of the implementation. That is the true spirit of Agile. Here’s how I came around to this idea.
OKRs AND UX
Posted on December 20, 2021.Objectives and Key Results offer a new opportunity for user experience and design work to make a powerful impact on our products and services
What if your OKRs are wrong?
Posted on December 13, 2021.Your objectives and key results are assumptions. At times they will be wrong. Here's how to handle a situation where your goals aren't right.
Incentives vs The Right Behavior
Posted on December 6, 2021.Managing to outcomes works well if we're also monitoring negative behavior. If we're not, we risk real world negative consequences.
Should we use OKRs for everything?
Posted on November 22, 2021.We use OKRs to set goals. Should all of our goals then use OKRs? This article discusses which goals make sense and which don't.
Why does planning require a “season?”
Posted on November 15, 2021.We spend a tremendous amount of time planning next year's work. We don't need an entire season to do this. Here's a better way to plan work.
OKR Tracking Tool (free template)
Posted on November 8, 2021.Here is a simple, free tool to track your objectives and key results. It's designed to help get your teams started with setting and tracking goals.
Customer value and business value are the same thing
Posted on October 25, 2021.Successful businesses know that making the customer happy is their only concern. Here's why.
Planning work with OKRs
Posted on October 18, 2021.Planning work with OKRs exposes the uncertainty in software-driven business planning. Here's how to deal with it.