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Mental Models to Help You Grow

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

The right mental models have a knack of becoming an integral part of a company’s operating system, and more importantly help employees make good decisions, more often. MSPOT An MSPOT is a simplified one page strategic plan used by HubSpot, and they have become an integral part of the company’s operating system. Source: McKinsey 17.

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Shape Up Your Agile

Crafty CTO

Bigger – it speaks to every aspect of the software development process. Where agile began I was managing software development projects at Viant in February 2001 when the Manifesto for Agile Software Development was published. Big as in a 143 page PDF. ” What does Shape Up do instead?

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Lessons learned from growing a PM team in a hyper-growth startup

Point Nine Land

There are a bunch of generic management tools to help you achieve that such as seniority matrix , regular 1o1s, performance reviews, regular update meetings and/or offsites. Set up a ticketing system for feature requests and bug reports. The most important is that every feature request and bug report get into this system.