Maybe you’ve had this conversation with a manager: You want to do something that costs some money. Maybe go to a conference, bring in some training, or something a little out of the ordinary. The manager says, “No, that costs too much.” Or, as a consultant, a manager says, “Your proposal is too much for […]
My podcast this week is from the continual planning book. Enjoy! If you receive this post in an RSS feed or via email from my site, you might not see the podcast player below. If you want to listen, please open this post in a browser. The Podcast: The Transcript: This is 60 Seconds of
The more work we put into backlogs, roadmaps, and the portfolio, the more product certainty we appear to have. But can we trust that product certainty? No. There’s the Aging problem. Then, there’s the fact that we can’t tell what the future will bring. Even if a team has a relatively low and consistent cycle
When I posted How to See Your Leading, Lagging, and Reliable Estimation Metrics last week, a colleague suggested I was not quite right. He said that Aging is actually the leading indicator for more reliable data. He is absolutely correct. However, we don’t always see the real problem. The reader who emailed me only saw
A reader asked me these questions about reliable estimation metrics: Would you explain leading and lagging indicators? Can I use a burndown chart to see accurate progress? Is that burndown chart useful if the team has not yet finished grooming the work? These are great questions because too many of us think the answers are
If you are like me, you use apps and websites to finish work every day. How often do those apps and sites break? Way too often. When possible, I report the problem. How long does it take to fix the problem? Sometimes, it takes those vendors days to fix their site. I expect only ten
My podcast this week is from the Continual Planning book. Enjoy! Note: If you receive the RSS feed for this post, you might not be able to see the embedded podcast. If you want to hear me, please click through to this post or subscribe in the podcast player of your choice. Or watch me
I’ve been thinking and experimenting a lot about how to use the various LLMs, both in my work and with my clients. I keep seeing a familiar trap: that managers think the gating factor in product development is the speed of coding. But that’s not true. The gating factor is the speed of understanding the
This week’s podcast is from the Writing Secrets book. My plans have changed for this book. Instead of being part of a bundle, I’ll be launching a Kickstarter for this book. (Why not practice my Kickstartering?) So keep an eye out for that. (Yes, I will learn how to share a link before next week’s
Many of my management clients tell me, “time is money.” That is only partially correct. Once you decide to invest a dollar, that dollar has the same value as any other dollar. Instead of focusing on the expense of a dollar, look for the value that dollar can return. (Because no one ever knows how