Dave's Research Co.
getting a handle on product strategy
Teaching People to Play [LC06]
It's difficult to remember what it was like when we didn't know what we do now.
Maintaining Models [LC05]
Everything decays — even the pictures we use to represent reality.
Three Levels of Scale [LC04]
Work in product organizations operates across three levels of strategic scale.
Focus and Sense [LC03]
Organizations need strategic focus and sensing mechanisms to grow useful new capabilities.
Process vs. Sequence [LC02]
Working in healthy sequences keeps our teams moving forward confidently and steadily.
A Guiding Metaphor [LC01]
Our organizations adapt to the external world: once there's fit, they both re-shape each other.
Announcing Loops and Cycles
A weekly mailing list with a simple focus: how organizations turn idea-stuff into live and successful software products — and how we can help ours do it better.