Michelle Wong

From Idea to Impact: Speeding Product Delivery Without Sacrificing Quality

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Despite adopting agile, many organizations still struggle to bring products to market quickly. Bottlenecks, siloed workflows, and outdated planning slow teams down and delay innovation. Instead of building high-impact solutions, teams lose time managing updates and navigating disconnected tools.  To accelerate time-to-market, technology leaders must focus on removing delivery friction. With greater visibility, coordination, and…

From Busywork to Business Impact: How to Prioritize What Matters

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Digital product teams face constant pressure to innovate quickly and collaborate across functions, but growing complexity in tools and workflows often slows them down. Instead of accelerating delivery, disconnected systems and competing demands create friction that diverts focus from high-impact work. Valuable time is spent chasing updates, managing tools, and working across silos. This leaves…

Why Disconnected Toolchains Are Crippling Your Product Development—And What to Do About It 

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Digital product development has transformed dramatically over the past decade. What once followed a linear, predictable path has become a network of cross-functional teams, cloud-native platforms, and specialized tools. This evolution has opened the door to faster innovation, but it’s also introduced a new level of complexity. One of the most persistent and underestimated challenges…

Disconnected Tools Are Killing Your ROI—Here’s the Fix 

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Across industries, tech leaders are feeling the squeeze to increase velocity, reduce costs, and maintain quality, all without expanding teams or tools. Yet, while we obsess over new methodologies, cloud migrations, and automation tools, a silent killer of ROI festers in the background—disconnected software toolchains. It’s not flashy. It’s not headline-grabbing. But it’s quietly draining…

How to Avoid Building Subway-Sized Waste During an Economic Downturn

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The Subway That Never Carried a Passenger  Imagine pouring over $180 million, thousands of hours, and decades of effort into a major initiative, only to never see it used.  That’s not just a metaphor. It’s the true story of the Cincinnati Subway, one of America’s most ambitious infrastructure projects that was never completed. Still empty…

How FedEx Combines the Power of VSM and OKRs to Accelerate Delivery Speed

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At the inaugural Project to Product (P2P) Summit in 2024, Greschen Powell, a seasoned leader with over 26 years at FedEx, delivered an insightful presentation on how organizations can accelerate value delivery using Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) and Value Stream Management (VSM). Powell’s talk provides a clear roadmap for boosting speed-to-market while staying aligned…

Scaling Flow at Vanguard: A Journey from Pilot to Enterprise Transformation

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At the 2024 Project to Product Summit, Sue Schweitzer, Senior Flow Advisor at The Vanguard Group, shared how Vanguard scaled flow across 750+ IT teams, transforming their way of working. What began as a small pilot to improve developer experience grew into an enterprise-wide program, tackling work-in-progress (WIP) overload, fragmented workflows, and alignment challenges.   By…