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Innovation Velocity Release Planning Risk 5 min read
Disproved: I can just react to everything and have a productive culture

Even though high growth requires you to adapt, how do you balance that with planning ahead? Here's how I learned about the sweet spot.

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Innovation Assumptions 1 min read
Why improving requires change

It's easy to get caught up in exciting visions of innovation that will happen at your company. But the first step is knowing how people respond to cha...

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Velocity Release Planning Assumptions 5 min read
Why "work time" reduction is futile

Running around after individuals with a stopwatch doesn't get you to "done" faster

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Innovation Release Planning 6 min read
How the infamous 1984 Apple launch commercial was canned...almost

Apple has always had a flair for marketing. But even in the early days, this wasn't without its controversies.

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Metrics Assumptions 2 min read
Disproved: Everything matters equally and I can just multi-task

Priorities impact a lot more than just personal productivity

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Innovation 2 min read
Disproved: Politcians claim entrepreneurship is the economy's job growth engine

Politicians love claiming they are supporting job growth and innovation. But are they really? Or does it just sound good?

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Metrics Assumptions 3 min read
Are you overmarketing your product?
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Velocity Metrics 1 min read
How to know if your company's agile transformation is working

The actual results of agile are significantly below what is promised. Most companies (often including vendors) applying agile focus on process, becaus...

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Innovation Metrics Assumptions 8 min read
Why outcome discovery trumps product discovery

First discover the outcomes your customer cares about. Then do everything else, including product discovery.

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Innovation Metrics 9 min read
How to grow your new venture 10% week after week after week

A useful way to prioritise marketing ideas, if you want to grow really fast, based on the Fishingbooker story

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Innovation Assumptions 3 min read
Disproved: Successful new products are launched exactly the way they are envisioned

Vision drives new products. But too much vision can kill them. Where is the line? And what really happens in high-growth startups?

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Innovation Assumptions Risk 12 min read
How to identify your riskiest assumption

Great founders manage risk better than anyone else who tries. Here are 9 different ways to try surfacing your startup's existential "company killer" r...

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