John Cutler: TBM 230: From Prioritization to Accountability (and Autonomy). If you don't provide your product's investment and governance framework, one will be provided to you. And the person providing that framework (e.g., finance, sales, or marketing) will not create a framework that is friendly to making great products. (more)

improvement on roadmap

Janna Bastow: Why I Invented the Now-Next-Later Roadmap. The Now-Next-Later roadmap exists because timeline roadmaps aren’t effective, simple as that. Timeline roadmaps insist on deadlines, which means product teams are deprived of the flexibility that allows them to do their best work. (more)

a BlogBiz based on creating a number of WebLogs (more)

term from Manuel Castells (more)

Network governance is "interfirm coordination that is characterized by organic or informal social system, in contrast to bureaucratic structures within firms and formal relationships between them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_governance (more)

see Great Game

governance system/structure with multiple "centers". A big theme of Elinor Ostrom. Does each need a Minimal Compact? Is the infinite version Network Governance?

Dan Davies: seeing like a state machine. I was asked by a friend to expand on this short comment, in obituary for the political thinker and author of “Seeing Like A State”, James C Scott: (more)

Dan Davies: incompetence is a form of bias. People will sometimes attribute unfair outcomes, particularly of state processes, to incompetence rather than bias. But, as my slogan suggests, incompetence is itself a bias, because it’s a bias in favour of people who can get mistakes corrected. (more)

Dan Davies: probability by stories, a four point scale. I probably ought to do an occasional series of “ideas for novels that will never be written”. Among the works from which my finance career has saved the reading public is a science fiction murder mystery, set in a world in which time travel is in wide use. (more)

Dan Davies: slimmed down, dumbed down. A gratifying, albeit terrifying, experience since writing the book has been that people have written to me saying “how would you recommend actually implementing this model?”. (more)

Dan Davies: seeing like a right old state. I found that yesterday’s post on James C Scott’s “Seeing Like A State” was growing out of control. (2024-08-01 DaviesSeeingLikeAStateMachine) I thought I’d do “part 2” of seeing like a state. (more)

Dan Davies: the purpose of a system is you can't always get what you want. The “POSIWID” principle is more trouble than it’s worth (more)

Dan Davies: history is the bygone which won't stay bygone. One of the many silly little bees that buzz round my bonnet is the following argument against “the lessons of history”. (more)

Dan Davies: why and when what works won't (part 2). This might be one of the factors behind the often disappointing performance of “evidence based” initiatives. Starting out with a mission statement to “do what works” often means failing to follow the Sparrow sequence of actions (identify a problem – gather evidence to understand it – solve the problem – tell everyone what you did). (2023-05-10 DaviesWhyWhenWhatWorksWontPart1) (more)

Dan Davies: why/when what works won't (part 1). I’ve mentioned the name of Malcolm Sparrow before (more)

3rd party evaluation of the quality of different colleges/universities. The big-cheese is U.S. News. Rankings are typically conducted by magazines, newspapers, websites, governments, or academics. In addition to ranking entire institutions, specific programs, departments, and schools can be ranked. Some rankings consider measures of wealth, excellence in research, selective admissions, and alumni success. There is also much debate about rankings' interpretation, accuracy, and usefulness. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_and_university_rankings_in_the_United_States (more)

Talent Disrupted: College Graduates, Underemployment, and the Way Forward. Most people enroll in college in large part because they believe it will provide the knowledge and skills they need to secure a good job and join or remain in the middle class, while employers often rely on colleges as a principal supplier of professional talent. However, college is not a guarantee of labor market success. While the typical college graduate continues to fare substantially better in the labor market than workers with no more than a high school education, a sizable share of graduates do not experience the economic outcome they expected from earning a bachelor’s degree. Among workers who have earned a bachelor’s degree, only about half secure employment in a college-level job within a year of graduation, and the other half are underemployed. (under-employment) (more)

undergraduate College Education intended to lead to Medical School (more)