Leading product teams and organizations
Why programmers and creative workers need long, uninterrupted blocks of time, and how meetings destroy their productivity in ways managers don't understand.
Why a flat product backlog doesn't work and how user story mapping gives teams a shared understanding of the big picture while still breaking work into small deliverable pieces.
One of HBR's two best-selling reprints ever. Using the vivid monkey on your back metaphor, Oncken and Wass reveal why managers are always running out of time while subordinates run out of work — and provide five rules for effective delegation. Includes commentary by Stephen R. Covey.