Most product teams assume they're aligned on strategy until one question proves otherwise. The Strategy Alignment Audit is a four-dimension diagnostic that reveals where your team's strategic...
Category: Strategy
Product roadmaps: why date-based ones always fail (and what to use instead)
Your roadmap is lying to everyone, and they know it You’ve been there. Q2 planning, leadership asks for the roadmap, you spend two weeks building a Gantt chart that shows Feature X shipping in...
OKRs for product teams: why yours aren’t working (and the fix)
Your OKRs are probably just a feature list with a corporate rebrand Here’s what happens in most product organisations every quarter: leadership announces it’s “OKR season.”...
Pretotyping: kill bad product ideas in days, not after months of building
You’ve probably seen this play out before: a team spends months building a product, only to discover that nobody actually wants it. The features work perfectly. The code is clean. But users...
Shape Up: how Basecamp ditched sprints (and why it might work for your team too)
If your team is stuck in an endless cycle of two-week sprints that never seem to deliver meaningful outcomes, the Shape Up method offers a radically different approach. Developed by Ryan Singer at...
The gap between “we do agile” and actually working like a product company Most companies think they’ve already made the shift to modern product development. They have product...