Hour-Glass Model for Platform MVP
An MVP ‘thin slice’ allows the product team to align a key business process for clear desired outcomes and value to ones who are ultimately paying up. This thought needs…
Forming a Dirty-Work Group
A Step by Step Guide 1. Beating Down the Idea Step 1: With utmost pessimism, identify the knowledge/experience you as an initiator lack that would doom the project into a failure.…
Dirty-Work Group Based Organizational Structure
Introduction A team does not and can not exist as an island. In an organizational setup, it has to indulge in intra-organizational and external communications. How does the concept of…
Dirty-Work Group
A Team Management, Dynamics and Structure Model (Originally published in 1998) 1. Management - Sense in Multitude 1.1 In the beginning there was... With the industrial revolution, came a problem,…
The Most Memorable of Teams
Six Characteristics of an Effective and Memorable Team Few weeks ago, I was at an off-site meeting. As part of warm up exercise, all attendees were ask to talk about their most…
Startup Hiring Tips – The Golden Rule
Take a long time to hire, but if needed let go very fast Hiring key members of the team is the single most decision a founder makes. So hiring should be…