Airwallex: Cadence, Rituals, Okrs, Standups

The Contextual Product Manager

In this video, I discover that our team is the only one not doing daily standups! Seriously, Richard explains the disciplines they use in a remote WFH world (Melbourne was locked down hard, hard, hard at the time of recording). So we discuss some of the challenges there. The summary is: - Airwallex form “squads” that are spear-headed with Product Manager, Designer and Lead Engineer - There is an over-arching SME strategy. - Quarterly and Annual OKRs trickle down through the organisation. opportunity decision trees (Teresa Torres, see Opportunity Solution - - Trees for Product Teams to ideate potential solutions to OKRs” - Triaging of solutions (see Don’t build shiny objects) - Monday planning meetings – where broader goals for the week within sprints are agreed - Daily standups (!)