Simple excellenceAdam Zak
Simple excellence
by Adam Zak · first published 2011
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I would add "simple excellence" [1] to the already recommend "personal MBA". Trying to map your companies products first on a "value proposition canvas" and then whole business on a "business model canvas" is a great way to better…
on “Ask HN: How to learn business being a software engineer” ↗For the background and how things go wrong, you might enjoy the book "Confronting Managerialism" by Spender and Locke. The Lean folks also have a lot of good critiques. A book that sticks in my mind is "Simple Excellence: Organizing and Aligning the Management Team in a Lean Transformation", but there are a bunch. And for software specifically, Mary Poppendieck's work is great, as well as Reinertsen's "Principles of Product…
on “Managers, not workers, are losing jobs to AI and robots: study” ↗