That'll never work here

“That's great in theory but it will never work in practice.”

How many times have changes that you've proposed been shot down like this?

The status quo is working so changes have a high downside and limited upside for managers - a small bonus versus losing their job.

That's why I love people like Pim and Joost at Corporate Rebels and Teresa Torres. They go out of their way to prove how much better things can be.

In our links this week, Teresa goes into detail about how she structures her community of practice to get people doing real discovery actions to prove how quick and effective they can be. Pim and Joost go a step further. They have created a private equity firm to buy up companies and transform their management practices. They are so confident that "it can work here" they are literally putting their money where their mouth is.

It’s Poll Time

* The results of last week's poll can be found below

This Weeks Updates

Enabling the Team

Where Companies Go Wrong With Learning And Development by Steve Glaveski
A lot of current business training is ineffective, as its purpose, timing and content are often misaligned. Steve shares an alternate approach.

Becoming Bossless: An Update On The Radical Transformation Of Our First Acquisition by Pim de Morree
Pim gives an update on how well the transformation at the first company they purchased is going. They've made good progress in 3 months!

Product Direction

The ICED Theory: Your Ally To Boost Infrequent Product Usage by Vivek Kumar
Infrequency, Control, Engagement and Distinctiveness - find out how it can help with the challenges and strategies of product growth.

Planning With Outcome Roadmaps by Itamar Gilad
Explore an output roadmap format, which combines objectives with timelines for effective planning and adaptability.

Continuous Discovery

Product Leaders: Getting Teams Started With Product Discovery by Jim Morris
Discover the importance of starting the journey, learning from experiences and continuously improving, rather than waiting for the perfect moment.

A Conversation With Petra Wille: My Approach To The Continuous Discovery Habits Community by Teresa Torres
Teresa and Petra discuss communities of practice with an in-depth view of Teresa's Continuous Discovery Habits community.

Continuous Design

AI as a UX Assistant by Feifei Liu, Mingjin Zhang and Raluca Budiu
A deep dive into how people are using AI today as Content Editors, Research Assistants, Ideation Partners and Design Assistants.

Rapid Iterative Testing and Evaluation (RITE) by Luke Wroblewski
A very quick overview of the RITE method, used to rapidly advance product design, encompassing continuous prototyping, user testing and iteration.

Continuous Delivery

Has Your Architectural Decision Record (ADR) Lost Its Purpose? by Pierre Pureur and Kurt Bittner
ADRs are meant to expose architectural decisions and improve transparency. But when they swell with every decision a team makes, they become overwhelming.

Post Mortem On Cloudflare Control Plane And Analytics Outage by Matthew Prince
Cloudflare suffered an outage for almost two days. Matthew offers a great review of the complexities and cascade effects in highly distributed systems.

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The Results of Last Week’s Poll

The question was: How do you see team structures changing with increased AI usage?

Users responded:

Wow. I did not expect this. The clear winner is that teams will grow even larger than they are today.

But then I read the comments and realised I had phrased the question poorly. In my head, I was talking about the size of individual product/project teams within a company, whereas the comments reflect more of an overall company IT size. In this new lens, I agree - I think IT size will increase but my personal view is that there will be more, smaller, product teams. Time will tell I guess. Thanks again for sharing your insights.

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