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Crisp's Blog Menu Crisp's Blog from the Crisp Consultants Is gut feeling inherently bad? Posted on 2024-05-08 – 08:36 by Marcus Castenfors Gut feeling. The sensation you get when you have a hunch. You know what to do. Is that hunch good or bad? Should you push it to the side or should you embrace it? Let’s explore these questions. According to psychology, gut feeling, or intuition, is how our brain makes use of past experiences, along Continue reading Mob Programming / Software Teaming is more relevant than ever! Posted on 2024-05-03 – 09:56 by Leading Complexity We have never been in a faster-changing environment than we are today. In product development, you must create a product that your customers love but also works for the business (ref Marty Cagan). To do that, you need to be innovative and a leader in your domain. If you don’t, you risk being disrupted and Continue reading The Prioritization Problem Posted on 2024-04-16 – 12:18 by Marcus Castenfors It was tense. A long list had been shared. Big features to build, new markets to launch. You could feel the built-up tension in the room. In the past, there had been a lot of friction. Voices were raised. Names were called. The situation was at a standstill. They needed someone, an outsider, to appease Continue reading The Discovery Illness Posted on 2024-04-01 – 14:14 by Marcus Castenfors When helping teams and companies shift towards the product model, one of the key concepts introduced is practicing product discovery. Prior to this shift, a typical scenario starts with a stakeholder—someone up top—sharing detailed requirements on what to build. This approach leaves the so-called feature team” with very limited opportunity to influence the solution. Now, Continue reading How to transform to Empowered Product Teams – FAQ #4 Posted on 2024-03-19 – 11:32 by Mathias Holmgren A few days ago I was asked an interesting question by a product team coach at a new client that I want to share with you. Q: – What can I do to help my team practice discovery? I understand it for customer experience facing teams, but my team is an enabling platform team. What Continue reading The Key Insight and Core Idea Powering the Product Model Posted on 2024-02-20 – 19:29 by Christophe Achouiantz Dive into the Product Model’s key insights (focus on outcomes), and core idea (the empowered engineer) to re-invent your teams to become Empowered Teams. Continue reading Remote Training Tip: Combining Quote Factory with Snow Flakes Posted on 2024-02-07 – 11:44 by Mikael Brodd Even though the trend right now is that more and more return to the classrooms for in-person training, remote training sessions are for sure not gone. One challenge in remote trainings are energizing and thought provoking exercises, where participants can get a feel for theoretical concepts. Crisp is fairly well known for its abundance of Continue reading The Product Model Decoded: Building Product-Led Organizations Posted on 2024-02-01 – 19:17 by Christophe Achouiantz Dive into the essence of the Product Model, a transformative approach embraced by leading companies for consistent innovation at speed. Explore how this model, codified and championed by industry thought leaders, empowers teams, accelerates innovation, and reshapes organizational success in our dynamic, VUCA world. Continue reading Simple Workflow for Midjourney + ChatGPT Posted on 2024-01-11 – 17:07 by Hans Brattberg Jag är ingen fotograf eller van skapare av bilder men har alltid gillat bra foton när jag ser dem. Utan att riktigt förstå varför de ser bra ut eller ej. När jag försöker generera bilder med DALL·E 3 eller Midjourney så blir det alltid bara så där och är väldigt frustrerande! Men nu har jag Continue reading The Product Model at Spotify Posted on 2023-11-06 – 11:36 by Joakim Sundén Joakim’s Note: Spotify is an exceptional company, the best I’ve ever worked for. When I left the company after more than six years, I wanted to help other companies become more like Spotify. However, I didn’t believe companies could merely copy the organizational structures of tribes, chapters, and squads that have come to be known Continue reading How to transform to Empowered Product Teams – FAQ #3 Posted on 2023-11-02 – 14:44 by Mathias Holmgren Q: For years now our technical architecture and platform have limited us to use component teams. We are excited by empowered product teams, but because of this setup we experience barriers to getting started. What can we do to change this? Each of our teams is typically responsible for one or a few modules in Continue reading The story about rice that made me understand great leadership Posted on 2023-10-30 – 07:10 by Tomas Björkholm Within the leadership philosophy of Intent-Based Leadership,” there is a saying that goes: Create leaders, not followers.” It sounds great, and no one would argue against it, but do you really understand what it means? I didn’t, until I heard a story that I will now share with you. It all began when my colleague Continue reading Stubborn on vision and flexible on details: how to facilitate a Product Vision Sprint Posted on 2023-10-25 – 10:24 by Marcus Castenfors Where are we heading? What’s the future going to look like for our product? Let’s pause here. There is a sad truth. Most companies don’t answer these questions in a meaningful way. Being fortunate to meet many diverse companies in the world, the top struggle is direction. Commonly, talking to individual contributors, managers, and senior Continue reading Getting Started Guide for ChatGPT Posted on 2023-10-10 – 16:09 by Hans Brattberg Feeling overwhelmed by the possibilities of conversational AI? This guide serves as your initial stepping stone, simplifying the art of prompt crafting to help you get off to a strong start. Basic – Start here Prerequisite: You need ChatGPT plus for this tutorial to work. The free version of ChatGPT is not good enough (and Continue reading Jennifer Garvey Berger – Complexity Genius summary Posted on 2023-10-05 – 11:40 by Leading Complexity First out in our second season of the Leading Complexity Program was the fantastic Jennifer Garvey Berger. She did an amazing job of framing the whole program and connecting the participants with each other. Jennifer explained how we all experience complexity in our daily lives. She started with a question: How do you experience complex Continue reading Interview with Simon Wardley Posted on 2023-09-26 – 23:20 by Michael Göthe and Leading Complexity We proudly present Simon Wardley, one of this year’s teachers, in our Leading Complexity Program starting September 2023. Here is a summary of the interview below. M: Hi, Simon. It’s great to have you on the program this year. Could you briefly say who you are for those who don’t know you? S: I am Continue reading Bill Fischer and the Dynamics of Haier’s Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Posted on 2023-09-26 – 13:37 by Tomas Björkholm and Leading Complexity In a session for the Leading Complexity Program 2022, Bill Fischer shared his knowledge about Haier’s Entrepreneurial Ecosystem and RenDanHeYi, the culture behind it. Here is a summary of the session. If you want to see the recording of the session, please sign up for this year’s program. Here are some insights: In this session, Continue reading How to transform to Empowered Product Teams – FAQ #2 Posted on 2023-09-22 – 17:32 by Mathias Holmgren Q: What is the best way to get customers and empowered teams closer so they could understand each other? And keep up with it so it is not a one time thing. In our organization we have done a few experiments with customers, but we have been struggling to make it a regular and deliberate Continue reading Agile intro – slides from my KTH talk Posted on 2023-09-20 – 17:14 by Henrik Kniberg Did my yearly agile intro talk at KTH today (Royal Institute of Technology). Here are the slides.Always enjoy meeting the students and sharing insightsexperiences! Some sample...