Many companies today appreciate the value of doing work in an iterative, incremental fashion. While there are some clear, valid outliers to this claim, most digital product companies and consulting groups understand the positive impact of delivering quality products early and frequently with close to direct feedback from who their users.

Most believe that 2 or 3 weeks is good enough of an iteration. However, a common challenge arises when coworkers, customers, stakeholders and managers have to inspect progress almost on a daily basis.

How do you show up with meaningful, inspectable progress every single day and enable daily decision making?

1. Understand your context

2. Plan accordingly

3. Promote deep focused work

References:

- BRIDGeS framework for product strategy and discovery: https://railsware.com/bridges

- Maker's schedule on Youtube: https://youtube.com/watch?v=lC4Ed2AqcKk

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What do you think of the topic? Let me know at [email protected] or find me on LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/josemotanet

John Miller's post: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/agileclassrooms_so-the-trend-in-organizations-seems-to-be-activity-7113615327015395328-iCWk

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If you're a knowledge worker, part of a team that builds digital products or somehow are involved in them, then you must know that there are multiple ways to go about solving customer problems, some of them better than others. In the end, we all want to achieve the same result: to build something that matters and to forge sustainable relationships with happy customers.