Jason Yip
Grainger, Senior Manager Product Engineering
New York City, New York, United States
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Jason Yip is a Senior Manager Product Engineering at Grainger. He first encountered Extreme Programming in 1999 and has spent his career working extensively with XP, Agile, Lean, Kanban in multiple roles including build master, developer, delivery lead, consultant, and coach. He was previously a Staff Agile Coach at Spotify and a Principal Consultant at ThoughtWorks.
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Safe, Responsive, Trustworthy, Coherent: A Target Operating Model for Grainger Product Engineering
Shared models help clarify what we agree that we’re trying to do. “Agile” has unfortunately become too misunderstood and jargon-y to serve this purpose. At Grainger, we’ve been exploring alternate framing to point more clearly to what we’re trying to do: “Continuous Delivery”, “Modern Software Engineering”, etc. The latest version I’m proposing is a Target Operating Model emphasizing 4 properties: Safe, Responsive, Trustworthy, Coherent. I’ll describe the problems this target operating model is intended to solve and the reactions it has received so far.
Occupy the Space: A Grassroots Guide to Product (and Engineering) Strategy when None Exists
The typical problem in product development is not bad strategy, so much as “no strategy”. This leads to confusion, lack of motivation, and incoherent action. The next time you look for a strategy and find an empty space, instead of waiting for it to be filled, I will show you how to fill it in yourself. If you’re wrong, it forces a correction. If you’re right, it helps create focus. I’ll share how I’ve approached this in the past, both what works and lessons for what didn’t work so well.
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