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Marcus Hamrin

The “Team Split Pattern” and its Challenges

This piece was first written in December 2022

Mar 7

The “Team Split Pattern” and its Challenges

Mar 7

Marcus Hamrin

The Value of Optionality

This text is an adapted excerpt from the post What is WIP and when is it a Problem?

Nov 8, 2023

The Value of Optionality

Nov 8, 2023

Marcus Hamrin

Four Kinds of Value

A model that can be used to help you prioritize your work by categorizing it into four quadrants based on the type of value it creates.

May 16, 2023

Four Kinds of Value

May 16, 2023

Marcus Hamrin

What is WIP and when is it a problem?

WIP means Work in Progress (or “Work in Process” for the lean folks out there). You already knew that, but what it actually means is “work…

Apr 19, 2023

What is WIP and when is it a problem?

Apr 19, 2023

Marcus Hamrin

Strategies for Predictability — Part 1

What options are there for predictable product delivery?

Apr 17, 2023

Strategies for Predictability — Part 1

Apr 17, 2023

Marcus Hamrin

Tracking Progress

Ideally, we’d all be tracking progress by only looking at outcomes and effects. It would be the OKR Utopia, where we’d write some code…

Aug 5, 2022

Tracking Progress

Aug 5, 2022

Marcus Hamrin

“Budgeting”

“Budgeting” enables you to control the cost of software product development better than guessing does. It also enables you to assess value…

Apr 22, 2022

“Budgeting”

Apr 22, 2022

Marcus Hamrin

“Past Performance Predicts Future Performance Better than You Do”

Sometimes we have to guess when something will be done. We may wish we would be in a situation where we didn’t have to do this, but that’s…

Apr 18, 2022

“Past Performance Predicts Future Performance Better than You Do”

Apr 18, 2022

Marcus Hamrin

What’s half of it?

At the heart of iterative and incremental delivery, lies the ability to make things smaller. We want to make things small, because we value…

Apr 13, 2022

What’s half of it?

Apr 13, 2022

Marcus Hamrin

Another Perspective on Alignment & Autonomy

Introduction

Feb 8, 2022

Another Perspective on Alignment & Autonomy

Feb 8, 2022

Marcus Hamrin

Marcus Hamrin

Father of two, Senior Product Manager at Spotify, metal drummer, and fascinated by product strategy, org systems, modern knowledge work dynamics & flow

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