Startup Patterns

Organizational change is only possible through personal transformations of individuals. The Hero’s Journey shows us how to achieve this.

We need to build bridges between engineering and business culture within the organization.

Good leadership requires behaviors and strategies that can be quite counter intuitive.

“We need to build an app. Do you know any good mobile developers?”

Last week, I was standing in a conference room at a $20 billion company, facilitating a workshop on Agile. The group in attendance was made…

“How long does it take to deploy your app from the time you first think of a feature to the moment it’s in front of a customer,” I asked…

Product Management is a tough job. One of the toughest aspects is the fact that, in nearly all cases, you are on the hook for delivering a…

It’s hard to beat the feeling of relief upon landing that first big customer, whether you’re in charge of a new product in an established…

“What feedback would you give me?” asked Bill (it’s not really Bill, but we’ll call him that for the story).

The name of the game in any startup venture is to find product-market fit as quickly as possible; and if you don’t hit it first time, to…

The primary goal of a Kanban system is to maximize the delivery of value to the customer by steadily increasing the speed and quality of…