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Jurgen Appelo's avatar

Nearly all goal-setting frameworks, work breakdown structures and growth-hacking models are based on flawed assumptions of linearity.

Anna Bergevin's avatar

You are definitely onto something here diagnosing what I feel is off with a lot of the operating models we see. Very interested to see more about how you can operationalize this flexibility and recontextualization in tooling using AI. I feel like that could be really powerful in reducing manual work/friction and increasing alignment. It feels like we spend way too much energy on these problems in organizations vs solving the real concrete problems that got us all into product in the first place.

Antonio Avalos's avatar

Very helpful. I'm drafting my product team workflow with people-events-artifacts-tasks. This short-master class was very helpful to not repeat the traditional mistakes just by repetition of the common mental model. Thanks for the thinking space!

Mat 🤓's avatar

Perfect example of “All models are wrong, some are helpful"

Mat 🤓's avatar

Perfect example of "All models are wrong, some are helpful"

Sanita Meijere's avatar

Thank you, brief, insightful and right on time for me!

Carsten's avatar

Very good thoughts, makes me think and question my own structures. Thanks

Chiranjeevi Gunturi's avatar

Hi, What are the cons of this model? How might organizations get it wrong?

Because, the current pyramid strategy has probably evolved overtime and how organizations understood each phase or layer of complexity??

Any thoughts on how this new one pans out in future? Teams fight over artifact ownership and not engage enough? (Which might already exist but not apparent yet

Organizations trying to shift this (or any new) operating model would apply it through their current lens? Where should the change start from?

John Cutler's avatar

One way to think about it.... the pyramid model has probably been "artificial" from the start in many ways. So the way forward might be to acknowledge that.

Christian Talbot's avatar

Super interesting! Gave me a lot to think about.