Escape the Firefighting Trap: Strategies for Teams to Focus on Important Work Do you find yourself constantly fighting fires and needing help keeping up with urgent customer requests? Have you and your team been so busy with these urgent tasks that you
Definition Of Done (For Eng Leader) Your effort can be considered done when a customer whose problem you were aiming to solve provides a testimony that they have solved their problem with the solution you have
Embrace KPIs That You Do Not Control How often have you seen business KPIs your org/team does not directly influence pushed your way? Did you try to push back? Did you try to reduce the scope
uodp OKR Best Practices Part I: ObjectivesThis a concise guide on how to start writing your OKRs. Start with creating a tracker of: customers that you are aiming to onboardtheir problems (problems that you
uodp Building Generalized Solutions is Killing Your Product You may have often heard this question: “If we listen to only this customer, how can we be sure that we are not overfitting?” This is the question that leads
Do Not Work on the Project that Solves More Than one Problem One close friend of mine recenly made a comment that stuck in my head for quite some time: "there are too many problems in the proposal". I was not comfortble
uodp How to Identify The Right Customer One of the common questions that I'm getting from people reading this blog: "fine, you have all these articles, but can you give me a clear answer of what is
uodp UODP and Reliability Quite often these days, I hear that UODP and reliability are two things that contradict each other. Indeed, at first, if you are focusing on onboarding customers, how/why/when
uodp Main Pitfalls of UODP I have collected here main pitfalls of UODP that I have hear over the time. UODP is only about incremental changes and short term initiatives Key idea of UODP is
uodp First Steps Towards UODP We have not even defined yet what UODP is. However, I am already getting random questions like: "how can I try this? do you have any formal steps for beginners?
Successful Product How to Identify a Successful Product Have you ever asked yourself: if there are any product attributes that can tell you if it will be successful or not? This question is such a hard question that
