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For developmental leaders, the limitations are not resources but useful knowledge about what to do with the resources that are available and how and why to get it done. In other words, the limitation is lack of knowledge (ignorance), (row a in Table A.1), for which the corrective action is creating and utilizing conditions in which it’s far easier
... See moreSteven J. Spear • Wiring the Winning Organization: Liberating Our Collective Greatness through Slowification, Simplification, and Amplification
The manager-driven, “thou shalt do LeSS”-adoption causes resistance and sets up the organization for failure.
Bas Vodde • Large-Scale Scrum: More with LeSS (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Cohn))
For product managers to succeed, there needs to be an executive mandate and company-wide understanding that even though everyone gets a voice, product decisions ultimately reside with product managers.
Rian van der Merwe • Making It Right: Product Management For A Startup World
The essential responsibilities of a leader/company exec, via DHH:
1. Chart the course
Where are we going? What are we building? Who is it for? Any executive running anything has to know the answer to these questions in order to lead anyone anywhere. If you don't have a clue where you're going, any road can take you there, and running in circles
... See moreIn effectively run organizations, the functional leader is responsible for “who” and “how”—providing trained people who are competent in their profession to be used in sequentialized flows. The flow owner (e.g., project leader, program leader, value stream leader) is responsible for the “what” and “when” of how those people are deployed to achieve
... See moreSteven J. Spear • Wiring the Winning Organization: Liberating Our Collective Greatness through Slowification, Simplification, and Amplification
The problem for startups and large companies alike is that employees often follow the products they develop as they move from phase to phase. A common practice is for the inventor of a new product or feature to manage the subsequent resources, team, or division that ultimately commercializes it. As a result, strong creative managers wind up getting
... See moreEric Ries • The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.