Podcast: Toli and Andy Norton from Cinch on Team Topologies, Theory of Constraints, and Serverless

    Charles Humble talks to Apostolis Apostolidis (aka Toli) and Andy Norton from Cinch, arguably one of the UKs most successful start-ups. They discuss: how the company got started, how Team Topologies, ...

    These Companies Keep Running Thousands of Failed Experiments, and You Should Too

    Twenty-odd years ago most big companies would run just a handful of experiments each year. These days, firms like Amazon, Google, Intuit and Netflix run thousands. But how are they able to do this? An...

    Why Do So Many Young Companies Fail Fast?

    We’ve got a respect problem in the Cloud Native world. We talk a lot about fast-growing startups, led by people who want to break the rules, to do something revolutionary. We love to tell ourselves st...

    How to Build a Full-stack Team of T-shaped Developers

    "The idea of the ‘full-stack developer’ is rather quaint, a throwback to the late 1990s when the ‘full stack’ meant a single development framework like Delphi 5 or VB6. However, in the modern world, t...

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    WTFinar (with transcript): The Cloud Should be Fun - and if it's not, you're probably doing it wrong

    Some days, everything seems like it’s hard. And getting harder.

    Oh, So You Are a Product Owner Then?!

    I’m a (Technical) Product Manager, but if I had a pound for every single time I’ve been asked if I was a Product Owner… Well, in truth I wouldn’t be any better off really, but maybe I could just affor...

    Podcast: Silicon Valley Product Group’s Christian Idiodi on Product Management Skills and Product Discovery

    In this episode Charles Humble talks to Silicon Valley Product Group partner Christian Idiodi about how he got started in product management, the Certified Scrum Product Owner and MBA pathologies, how...

    Achieving Sustainability with Green Product Management

    The trouble with using green as an adjective is that historically it has been a negative one. A green product manager was either inexperienced, about to be violently sick, or possibly both. Not someon...

    Are You a Product-Led Organisation?

    “Don’t confuse your mission, your vision, your purpose, with what you sell. At the end of the day, customers really want to know that you’re going to add some kind of value to them. You’re going to he...