For some reason, OKR planning in most companies is a stressful moment that we go through each quarter. We need to consider myriads of inputs, definition sessions, and cross-team alignments to create high-quality OKRs for our team. While this is challenging for organizations of any size, large enough organizations (usually more than 8 product teams) […]
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A 4-steps guide to interviewing Product Managers for this hard-to-check skill In the product development ecosystem, one of the critical traits to build successful solutions is to make decisions based on data. It is one of the skills required in most products regardless of category or industry. Nonetheless, it isn’t easy to assess how data
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Most modern product companies are trying to work with empowered interdisciplinary product teams. One of the prerequisites and most essential transformations to achieve this work model is to be outcome-based instead of output-based. There is a lot of information about it, like Marty Cagan’s articles or articles about the feature factory trap. Yet, today I
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(My experience working at this “CPTO” role for the last two years) Depending on company age, industry, and evolution, they have very different structures for their product development organizations. Since going into the details of those different scenarios may require a very long article, I want to focus on companies that are in a situation similar
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There is a particular problem most companies struggle with: as time goes by, product development teams seem to get slower and slower. Why? Why those great developers that at first seemed to deliver tremendous value now take so long to make small changes? We can list many reasons: Dependencies: as the team grows, we split
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It is easy to understand why product teams with low autonomy, hard delivery-date pressures from stakeholders, and not-empowered product managers tend to end up in the “feature factory” anti-pattern. Note: I’m not sure about the origins of the feature factory term, but it basically represents those product teams who operate more like a software factory, getting
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The flexible vs rigid standards dilemma A few days ago a conversation with our most senior Dev executive triggered this dilemma, worth exploring in more detail. The argument went something like this: we want the teams to feel ownership over their decisions and select the best tools, techniques, and processes for every challenge their face. On the
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Una historia de #BestProduct Parte III — #BestOps Si no leíste la Parte I y Parte II de nuestra historia de #BestProduct, te recomiendo que lo hagas para tener mejor contexto de esta serie. Hoy narramos la tercer parte: garantizar el mejor producto con la mejor operación. El viernes llego Lionel a la oficina unos minutos tarde porque había un
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I’ve been working with OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) for a while, and one of the problems I recurrently face is whether or not to tie OKRs with bonuses. This is a post based on my experience that describes my thought process and conclusions on how to handle it, hoping it may help others or
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Una historia de #BestProduct — Parte I: #BestCode Nota: esta es la parte I de esta historia. Ya puedes continuar leyendo la 2da parte. Déjenme contarles la historia de Lionel, un desarrollador que se acaba de incorporar a la empresa. Está en su segundo día, luego de haber pasado por la inducción de RRHH, una inducción
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