I’m talking with Itamar Gilad, who applies experience form his tenure in Google, Microsoft and IBM to help built product organisations. We discuss GIST - framework that helps to align strategy and business goals with hypothesis based product development.

Why companies fail with OKRs? Why agile teams complain they don’t know the vision and they don't know why they do what they do? Why product managers and product owners struggle to prioritise the right ideas and why they build features that fail to deliver the business impact.

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(00:00) Welcome to Product Ramble
(02:15) Common problems of organisations
(04:03) Why old style of management doesn’t work with software products?
(08:39) Concepts of GIST framework
(09:34) Hot to set Goals
(15:33) Goals vs agile teams
(18:26) Can we have only good ideas?
(22:01) How to use ICE prioritisation method
(32:35) How to measure Confidence for prioritisation?
(44:45) How the management culture needs to change?
(47:05) How engineering needs to change in learning organisations?
(50:26) Outcomes of adopting GIST
(53:47) Books recommended by Itamar
(55:18) Learn more about Itamar and GIST
(56:09) bonus: lean approach to book writing
(07:00) Spread the podcast!


Resources mentioned:
* GIST https://medium.com/@itamargilad/why-i-stopped-using-product-roadmaps-and-switched-to-gist-planning-3b7f54e271d1
* Prioritising tool with ICE scores (esp. Confidence score) https://hackernoon.com/finding-winning-ideas-using-the-confidence-tool-d8f2d8cc2c15
* “Lean startup” by Eric Ries http://theleanstartup.com
* “Lean series” https://leanstartup.co

Say hi to Itamar Gilad:
* http://itamargilad.com
* @ItamarGilad

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