The Red Queen’s Race
Winning the Red Queen’s Race in New Product Development “Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!” – Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass Does product development seem […]
Agile Isnāt A Strategy
But Smart Strategy Drives Speed and Agility. āAgile execution beats strategy.ā It sounds good, but is it true? It is if you believe strategies are fixed and unresponsive to change. But itās not true if you create the right strategy made responsive to new situations. The biggest problem with strategies is that they donāt stand […]
Innovation Charters In Motion
Uniting Agile, Strategy, and Jobs-to-be-Done Thereās a tug-a-war going on across three interrelated topics. Each drives superb product development. Yet the three topics act independently. The Approaches The Agile approach is found in every corner of product development. Its first mission was to uncover a new way to develop software successfully. But following its success, […]
Agile and Strategy
The Need for Responsive Roadmapping Agile implementations have a big problem. When they bump up against an organizationās culture, progress can stop. It turns out, behaviors and practices can be a brick wall. To me, itās humorous to hear experts say Agileās full benefits accrue only from ātransformative implementations.ā They declare an organization, from top […]
Roadmapping the Roadmap
Where is Roadmapping Taking Us? Roadmapping has been on quite a journey. Many managers use the term to describe planning and tracking projects. But they use different schemes to create roadmaps. And the results vary widely. Thereās much to learn from roadmappingās evolution. This is especially true for innovation management and product development in big […]
