I have a confession. It’s a hard thing to admit in public. Almost heresy. But it’s true. [Deep breath] I’ve fallen out of love with the MVP. In principle, the Minimum Viable Product is great. But there are (at least) two things wrong with the concept.1) Almost nobody in the history of MVPs truly keeps it ‘minimum’. There’s always bloat […]
Be honest, when do you do your best work?When you’re trying to do a million things at once? Or when you’re able to focus your attention on one thing in particular? And by ‘best’ I mean most creative. Most insightful. Most valuable. Yesterday, I was working with a new team, setting up their first project.They’d done some things
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Some Mondays start with a rainbow of whiteboard pens, little magnetic cards and a bit of reflection and planning. I’m not talking about sprint planning with the team, though. This is planning for me, for my week. Figuring out what things I want to achieve. Which books or reports I need to read. What personal
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