In early March of 2020, I had to send out final notices postponing all the Rapid Learning Cycles Program Manager workshops we had on the calendar for spring — a scary thing, since this is our primary source of revenue.…
Product development is inherently risky, and the most heavily-prized new product development - the product that will open up a new market or create a new category - is the most risky of all. In fact, only in the most…
Up to this point in the story, I had assumed that the Knowledge Gaps would go into a backlog that the team would manage in the same way that software teams manage their backlog of user stories. As soon as…
When I started applying the lessons from my “Scrum for Knowledge Work” in product development teams with deadlines, it became clear right away that some things were working better than others. The structure made it possible to implement Dr. Ward’s…