The product is important. Ownership is everything. Do you embrace the product owner role completely? If you don’t advocate and hold true to that central outcome, no one else will.
As program managers, how do we effectively navigate executive sponsor conflicts that threaten project success? These situations require nuanced approaches tailored to your specific organizational context.
Two proven methodologies—DSM and WSJF— individually tackle dependencies and prioritization. But when integrated, they empower project managers to adopt systems thinking—resolving bottlenecks, prioritizing value, and delivering results faster and smarter.
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"Impartial observers from other planets would consider ours an utterly bizarre enclave if it were populated by birds, defined as flying animals, that nevertheless rarely or never actually flew. They would also be perplexed if they encountered in our seas, lakes, rivers and ponds, creatures defined as swimmers that never did any swimming. But they would be even more surprised to encounter a species defined as a thinking animal if, in fact, the creature very rarely indulged in actual thinking." - Steve Allen |
