the problem with distinctions like "discover vs deliver" is that they cloud the real issue.
IMHO...solve what constitutes a team and their decision/mandate scope first, and many of the other problems work themselves out.
Why? (1/n)
...take a team arguing about discovery vs. delivery.
What they *really* are arguing about is the clash of engineering team incentives, product manager incentives, and design team incentives.
....hmm...how do we keep THEM shipping while WE figure out the 'right things' (2/n)
design wants more time to do a good job, PdM is being pestered about how they'll solve the problem (and SHIP), and eng is told SHIP.
they proxy this dogmatic debates about what constitutes discovery and delivery, who does what, and how they can do MORE AT ONCE. So...(3/n)
when a team of empowered people encounter a new problem, the best approach is to figure out a purpose-built set of working agreements that fit the opportunity....not apply a once-size-fits-all pattern.
Don't sprint dogmatically.
Don't stagger dogmatically (4/end)
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It is about this time of year I recommend a “so what if we build nothing” exercise. It is always fascinating.
Gather a cross-functional group and pose the question “ok, so what if we stop building new stuff. We go into full maintenance mode. What happens?” 1/n
Initially ppl will be confused. They’ll joke about losing their job. Once the get over that, they get curious and start imagining.
Typically I prep with some kind of monthly/quarterly “scoreboard” or dashboard. “ok, what happens to this quarter after quarter?” 2/n
What numbers go up? Go down? More or less support cases? Fewer purchases? Fewer upgrades? Higher cost of acquisition? Lower tension? More churn? A competitor starts to creep up? What stagnates? When?
#wardleymapping fans. I was about to make this list myself, but figured it would be more fun as a group activity. Care to add some?
WM help(s/ed) us decide to __________ instead of _________________ .
e.g.
change a team's mission from acting as a specialist walled garden to trying to spread that expertise across the company
use vendors for X,Y, and Z, and then spin up an internal team to act as a center of excellence for navigating those vendors/tools and abstracting the provider from the company.
A quick overview of a workshop we are running at @Amplitude_HQ with prospects/customers. It hits all the angles. We use @MiroHQ
1/n First we dig into the product promise and path to sustainable, differentiated growth...
2/n Then we take a quick look at competitive. Personally, I think that to "ignore the competition" it is important to understand the competition first. So we look at that...
3/n With that context, shift a bit to learn a super high level form of journey mapping. First we start with using an emotion wheel to get people ... well ... thinking about humans. And then we do a 30,000ft exercise with 5 key narratives...
One of the highest leverage things a company can do is to work cross-department to establish meaningful personas/narratives/JTBD/whatever-you-call-it.
If it is so high leverage, why do so few companies actually follow through? ... (1/n)
Utility. What is meaningful for day-to-day action for product development is often "too complex" to be meaningful for marketing and sales. Similarly, what helps marketing do their thing, is often not actionable for PD. (2/n)
Marketing will do just fine with a 1-3 "personas" and a rough sense of a journey map. They also focus on marketing "the gap". Meanwhile, product/design need to deal with all the subtleties and the present. The reality.
So what looks good on the surface (common artifacts)(3/n)