Initiatives versus Objectives
People working with Objectives (for example, with the OKRs framework) seem a bit confused by the concept of Initiatives. Some consultants put Initiatives below Objectives; others put them above. (And most have never heard of Initiatives.)
You Are a Portfolio Manager (Everyone Is)
If you don't manage your portfolios, you only build but never own.
Ten Lifecycle Stages of a Value Stream
The ten lifecycle stages are fractal: they can apply to entire businesses and individual feature sets.
The next phase: Formation and Validation
How do we turn unFIX into a viable business that helps people make their own methods? How do we help organizations to scale out rather than scale up?