AI Will Save Billions by Automating CEOs
Automating CEO-Level Work with LLMs A large portion of what Fortune 500 CEOs do could be automated or at least augmented using LLMs, AI agents, …
Why I’m Not Worried About AI
There is a lot of talk about AI taking jobs away and automating what us humans do. AI isn't the first threat to taking away …
UACon 2024 Winter Talk
I had the pleasure of talking at the UACon 2024 Winter Talk Conference. It's a virtual conference but a bit different. Things we pre-recoded but …
Model Based Product Discovery – It’s Faster
Establishing shared understanding in service of innovative product development. If you are in product management and wish that discovery would take much less time – …
Innovation Through Curiosity
This talk was based on a white paper I wrote when at Turnberry Solutions. We need to really think about two key things: Efficiency and …
Why is Transparency so Scary?
trans·par·en·cy /tran(t)ˈsperənsē/ noun The quality of allowing light to pass through so that objects behind can be distinctly seen. The quality of being easy to …
Tech Connect Conference 2023
Using Zero Distance and Product Tools to Innovate in Healthcare – A Case Study Presented by: Creg Schumann, Nathan Koering, & Jim Christy – Turnberry …
Why are our Agile Tools complex?
So often, people’s very best intentions to make a tool work better for us inadvertently make the tool work against us. Our schemes for the perfect tool configuration frequently …
Product Innovation – Ideas and Case Studies
How do you approach innovation? This talk was a case study and some ideas that can help when innovating. During this engagement I ran across …
Straightlaced – How Gender Has Us All Tied Up
Gender creates a rigid construct that can cause harm. Debra Chasnoff created Ground Spark to produce a number of amazing films. Most of them are …
You Can’t Wait
I call it the "Gift of Death." Back in May of 2009 I started my journey with chemo. You see – I was diagnosed late …
I Need A Book!
When Books Were All We Had Back in the later 1980’s and the 1990’s I think I invested a ton of money buying new books …
Meet Lex!
Hello Lex! He's just over 4 weeks old today. Yes – he's cute! Drew and I get to bring him home on May 28. We've …
Sustainable Pace
It was September, 2020 – the middle (at least of this writing) the global pandemic. My partner was at a loss for most of the …
Project to Product Rollercoaster
Why is it so tough to move an organization from a project orientation and way of being to that of a product orientation? Many efforts …
How to Build the Right Product
It's always good to chat with Kurt. This is a talk about building the right product. In my professional career I have often come into …
Atelophobia
I wonder how many projects suffer from Atelophobia. Is this what causes projects/efforts to spin and spin on getting done? Rather than asking “can this …