ZeroBlockers
Helping teams remove the blockers that hurt the effectiveness and efficiency of software development.
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In an AI World, Truth Becomes Your Scarcest Resource
The decisions that matter most depend on inputs that don't live in dashboards. The quality of your inputs has always mattered, but as people become increasingly reliant on AI to help with high-level decision-making, it is becoming more critical.
The Role of Stream Teams in ZeroBlockers
Stream Teams are at the core of product development, responsible for building and delivering value to customers. Unlike traditional function-based teams, they operate within a broader product vision, balancing customer needs with business goals while maintaining autonomy in execution.
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In an AI World, Truth Becomes Your Scarcest Resource
The decisions that matter most depend on inputs that don't live in dashboards. The quality of your inputs has always mattered, but as people become increasingly reliant on AI to help with high-level decision-making, it is becoming more critical.
The Role of Stream Teams in ZeroBlockers
Stream Teams are at the core of product development, responsible for building and delivering value to customers. Unlike traditional function-based teams, they operate within a broader product vision, balancing customer needs with business goals while maintaining autonomy in execution.
The Pyramid Is Collapsing: How AI Is Reshaping Workforce Structure
For decades, organizations were pyramids. A broad base of junior employees supported narrower layers above. Entry-level hires did the grunt work, writing tickets, processing data, creating basic designs, conducting routine research, while slowly building the judgment that would carry them upward. That structure is collapsing.
AI Makes Work Easier, and Growth Harder
Today, a designer can generate fifteen variations in fifteen minutes. The output is faster, and the quality is often higher. But something essential is missing: the learning that used to come from the struggle. This is the central paradox of the AI era.
AI has Collapsed the Career Ladder. The Four Questions That Define Your Career Stage
Your career stage isn't defined by what's printed on your business card. It's defined by the question you're primarily trying to answer in your work. There are four questions you should answer to know where you are, each representing a distinct level of thinking.
The 4 Types of Team Dependencies That Kill Performance (and How to Spot Them)
Dependencies remove autonomy, which kills accountability. Once you have handoffs you allow people the wiggle room to throw up their hands and say "I did my job". We need to remove dependencies if we want teams to be accountable for outcomes - and that start with identifying the different types of dependencies that can exist.
Why We Need a Brook's Law for Teams
In 1975, Fred Brooks published "The Mythical Man-Month," introducing what became known as Brooks' Law: "Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later." Brooks observed that communication overhead grows much faster than productive capacity when you add people to complex projects.The same is true for adding more projects into a portfolio.
Common Objections to Empowering Teams (and How to Rebut Them)
Our current way of working, isn't working. Up to 90% of features fail to deliver the expected business value. Empowered teams improve outcomes because they are closer to customers and can iterate faster towards solutions that work for both customers and the business. They only problem is that it is a complete reversal of how many companies work today so there is quite a bit of pushback.