Sitemap - 2024 - The Conceptual Leader

What’s wrong with the world

3 key reasons to promote focus and flow

Thinking Out Loud: An additional element on promoting focus / limit WIP to leadership

Throughput (forecasting) vs Story Points (estimation) for planning work / capacity

How to promote focus / WIP limit to leadership?

Thinking Out Loud: Manage technical debt by leading with clarity

Why everything tends to be so slow?

[ERRATA] Thinking Out Loud: Control, autonomy, agency and people's creativity

Thinking Out Loud: Control, autonomy, agency and people's creativity

Thinking Out Loud: On aligning execution with strategy

Are product managers industry specific?

A big thank you and can you help me out?

Focus on demand-side

Priority: we often focus on the wrong kind

Canaries in a coal mine: are you listening?

The Terminator and aging WIP

Path to winning: where and how

It's what people do, not what they say

Right-sizing: how the heck...

What the heck is value? Obsess with it, but then forget about it...

What the heck is value? – the discipline to try to "put a finger on…"

Lenses for the three P's (Problems, Plans, Prioritization): Prioritization (3/3)

Lenses for the three P's (Problems, Plans, Prioritization): Plans (2/3)

Lenses for the three P's (Problems, Plans, Prioritization): Problems (1/3)

Don't go "tilting at windmills"

Back soon! For now, let's revisit why this blog is called 'Conceptual Leader'?

A case for faster flow and right-sizing

Eurocup and our work: reflections and ramblings

You have more agency than you think!

Would you join me to discuss how flow enables product development?

Still on prioritization: revisiting a plot twist on a sad tale…

Prioritization: bet to learn and risk profile

Theory and practice are not at odds with each other

The Art of Action

Revisiting: You don't have a PRIORITY problem, rather a CLARITY one

Still on 'is Agile dead': further insights and some guidance

Is Agile dead? How I see it…

Thinking in Systems - and Products

Revisiting: "What you build will own you"—and why that matters

Product, organizations and the system lens: and what digital signal processing has to do with it

The practical side of Product Management like gardening

Product Management like gardening

To depend or not to depend

PM craft in delivering software products

Focus as a matter of priority and clarity

To estimate or not to estimate? Is that the question?!

The worst of both worlds

How product development benefits from flow - Part 2

Initiatives, Epics, Features, (User) Stories… which is which?

How product development benefits from flow - Part 1

There are no solutions, there are only trade-offs

What I am going to try to make out of 2024