1. Break down the stages and people you see along the Technology
Adoption Lifecycle. What are the characteristics of people within the stages, what do they believe, and include what go-to-market model used for each?
2. What does it mean to be Anti-Fragile?
Explain what the key elements to Anti-Fragile Growth are and give 2 examples of how a company can be antifragile.
3. What are the critical core principles to consider when structuring product teams? Especially for autonomy at scale? What are the key factors in enabling teams at scale in terms of team, business, and technology properties?
4. Discovery/delivery question. To follow back up on a past discussion. Give 2 examples of what discovery can look like and 2 examples of what
Delivery can look like. Give an example of a factor that can get in the way or interfere with Discovery or Delivery.
5. Consider the Three Ways of DevOps as proposed by Gene Kim and widely adopted across practitioners (and covered in your lessons from
Module 4). How do these relate to the project management methods and their evolution over time as covered in Module 1, and our progression from the start of the Digital Age in 1970s with Waterfall techniques to today with Business Agility?
If you had to add a fourth way, what would you call it?
6. Discuss the core differences between Project and Product Management as a way of working and why we need to move towards the Product Management Model. Whats changing so that we now need to manage our Products differently? How does this change the funding models?
Make sure you consider the organization of Modern Product Teams and the flow from Discovery work to Delivery work as defined in your lectures and Marty Cagans Inspired in Module 1. How does the type of Discovery and Delivery flow fit into the Traditional Product-Portfolio
Management approach discussed in Module 3? And how does this relate to product innovation processes from Module 4 and enabling autonomy at scale?
7. Discuss the business agility framework discussed in the lectures and how it aligns to the product maturity model. What delivery approaches work best in each stage of the product maturity lifecycle (and market maturity lifecycle), and the 12 types of innovation. How do these fit together?
What is the difference between the Core-Context Diagram and the
Zone-To Win diagrams?
8. Describe how the innovators dilemma links to the business model canvas, and how together with the Pisano Innovation Landscape it is clear that disruptive innovation is especially accessible for Big Tech (and its corporate coffers) to expand and disrupt many existing markets today like banking in the Digital Age?
Each answer to question needs to be less than 250 words.