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Products Over Projects
While working on the LVT and MoS, the product people on the team and within the product organization are concurrently developing product blueprints to ensure that over the longer term the team, management, and customers have an understanding of how you intend to evolve your products. Organizational structures will also change as businesses morph fr
... See moreJim Highsmith • EDGE: Value-Driven Digital Transformation
Unfortunately, projects are output and product is all about outcome. This process predictably leads to orphaned projects. Yes, something was finally released, but it doesn't meet its objectives so what really was the point?
Marty Cagan • INSPIRED: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love (Silicon Valley Product Group)
Most teams in business work to create a defined output. But
Josh Seiden • Sense and Respond: How Successful Organizations Listen to Customers and Create New Products Continuously
Do not hire project managers as product managers. While project managers may be great at organizing and driving a schedule, they often lack the ability to prioritize features or ask the larger strategic questions. In general, project managers are not needed in high functioning software organizations, where a mix of the engineering manager and produ
... See moreElad Gil • High Growth Handbook: Scaling Startups From 10 to 10,000 People
Alternatively, lose the notion of projects entirely and build incremental capabilities in a steady flow.
Mark Schwartz • War and Peace and IT: Business Leadership, Technology, and Success in the Digital Age
I generally think matrixed is death, so I’m always pushing companies to go to a flat structure of independent teams. I’m really on the Jeff Bezos program on that, the two-pizza team thing.2 I think hierarchies kill innovation for the most part. And I think that matrixes are just lethal in most cases. There are exceptions, but in most cases, you nee
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