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TBM 437: Transition Week (And Some Fun Links)

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By John Cutler
| The Beautiful Mess
A transition week with back to school and some other (soon to be shared) exciting news. To tide folks over until next week… I was active on Twitter for a long time. I likely met many of you during that time. I recently collected 50 threads and 500 tweets (many with images) in this simple viewer. Check it out for a blast from ye olde Twitter. I also made this strategy prompts activity for teams hoping to get good strategy conversations going. Give it a try with your team! Let me know how it went.
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TBM 437: Tokens, Hours, Points, and Other Curious Proxies

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By John Cutler
| The Beautiful Mess
Everyone is talking about “return on tokens.” Vendors love it (as long as the news is good). Companies that had long since given up on any sort of value architecture or on understanding the ROI of product work are suddenly chomping at the bit. Which makes sense: they haven’t been able to lay off enough people to cover their token budgets while still hitting their promises to the board.
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TBM 436: Tension-Based Prioritization (A Non-Framework)

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By John Cutler
| The Beautiful Mess
I’ve come to believe that teams can prioritize much more effectively by focusing less on the specific things they’re prioritizing (which will naturally be important, and will naturally get attention) and more on the tensions they’re observing and acting out day after day. The tensions point the way to the real decisions. Most of what we call prioritization is forging agreeable narratives. It resolves very little and produces very little real commitment.
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