When John Cutler speaks, people listen. At Rise8's ShipSummit, the message was clear. Whether you’re in the public or private sector, the goal is the same: ship outcomes, not just activity. Too many teams are still operating in single-player mode, moving fast but without shared context. The shift is to multiplayer - better context, better decisions, outcomes that actually stack. If things feel off, it’s probably not execution. It’s context.
Dotwork
Software Development
Georgetown, Texas 3,660 followers
Strategic Alignment Without Compromising Flexibility
About us
Dotwork is built for product and technology leaders who need a more insightful, adaptive way to drive their business forward. As the first AI-native platform for strategic planning and operations, Dotwork aligns to your target operating model - aligning goals, driving execution, and improving outcomes without the manual overhead. Whether you’re stuck in spreadsheets, using legacy platforms, or having trouble scaling low-code tools, Dotwork provides a modern approach to how organizations manage complexity and drive outcomes at scale.
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https://www.dotwork.com/
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- 11-50 employees
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- Georgetown, Texas
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- 2023
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The team is the unit of value, not the project. Projects come and go. Some bets land. Others don't. But a stable, focused team is where trust compounds, learning accumulates, and execution sharpens. Most orgs get this backwards. They staff projects instead of building teams. They fund initiatives instead of owning outcomes. They write mission statements once and never return to them. A Product Operating Model flips that logic. It starts with durable team structure: clear scopes, explicit collaboration patterns, and funding models tied to how teams actually create value. Then it builds the rhythms and artifacts that keep strategy and execution connected over time. That's the foundation. Everything else: roadmaps, OKRs, quarterly plans sit on top of it. The POM Starter Pack walks you through how to build it. (link in comments)
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“Most leaders don’t need more information. They need better judgment.” Barry O'Reilly said it and then wrote the book to prove it. Congrats on Artificial Organizations — this one hits.
Most leaders don’t need more information. They need better judgment. Today I’m announcing Artificial Organizations, my new book for executives navigating AI, rising complexity, and constant decision pressure. This isn’t a book about tools. It’s about how leaders work. Despite more data, dashboards, and software than ever before, decisions are getting slower, not better. Meetings multiply. Context fragments. Thinking time disappears. AI was supposed to help. Instead, it often adds noise. Here’s what years of coaching CEOs and senior leaders has taught me: Better outcomes don’t come from humans or machines in isolation. They come from human judgment deliberately paired with machine intelligence. The real advantage with AI isn’t efficiency. It’s decision quality, speed, and presence. Artificial Organizations shows how leaders are using AI as a thinking partner — to clarify half-formed ideas, pressure-test decisions, and show up sharper in the moments that matter. It’s a one-day read for executives who want: - better decisions, faster - less time managing work, more time leading - a practical way to redesign how they work before trying to transform their organization Release: mid March 2026 Early access + updates: https://lnkd.in/gJtJ_4cs AI won’t replace leadership. But it is redefining it.
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Discovery isn’t a phase. It’s where most product teams quietly fail. Not because they don’t do it. But because they do it performatively. Customer interviews that don’t change decisions - Experiments designed to confirm, not learn - Roadmaps that ignore what discovery uncovered. Real discovery does one thing, it changes what you do next. If your discovery work isn’t leading to different decisions, it’s just theater We pulled together a practical Discovery Playbook for teams trying to make discovery actually work https://lnkd.in/egGwZqsr
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The first thing John Cutler looks at when he goes into an organization isn't the tech stack. It's the rituals. That's where information either moves or dies. I've seen this too. Organizations with clear strategies and zero ability to execute on them because the rituals between leadership and the frontline were completely broken. Nobody knew what was actually happening until it was too late to do anything about it. Full conversation in the comments. Worth your time.
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Welcome to the 536th edition of the Food for Agile Thought newsletter, shared with 35,661 peers. This week, Anthropic’s 81,000-person study reveals that hope and alarm about AI coexist within the same individual. Alberto Romero García channels that tension into eight practical strategies for AI career anxiety, while Allan Kelly warns that today’s AI hype mirrors the 1990s BPR failures. On the product side, Teresa Torres walks teams through measuring real customer impact rather than shipping features, Janna Bastow proposes that fixing bugs and technical debt is the strategy, and the Dotwork team provides a POM starter pack to operationalize Marty Cagan’s Product Operating Model. Next, David Pereira suggests that product leadership means creating space for product managers to thrive, not being the smartest person in the room. Steve Blank warns that startups older than 2 years are likely running obsolete playbooks in a world reshaped by AI agents and vibe coding. Also, Ruben Dominguez highlights Claude’s 14x revenue jump and proposes that the real productivity gap lies in learning to co-work with AI. 📚 Cedric Chin recommends ignoring AI predictions and studying actual field reports instead, while Dave Snowden reminds us that Boyd’s OODA loop was never meant to be a safe iteration cycle. Then, Jeff Gothelf proposes that storytelling is now the product manager’s key competitive advantage as AI commoditizes standard PM artifacts. Tristan Kromer addresses the lack of memory in AI agents. He proposes building a RAG-based experiment knowledge base to compound learning rather than repeat it. Martin Eriksson adds that AI agents need the same strategic clarity as human teams or organizations will scale confusion at machine speed. Finally, Sharyph explains how Claude Code Skills 2.0 turns Claude into a personalized, testable workflow system, while Deloitte’s 2026 State of AI report finds that only 34% of organizations truly reimagine their business with AI despite rising access. Useful? Like / Repost / Comment / Follow
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The missing layer in government tech? A real operating system.
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The teams that ship consistently aren't just lucky, they've built the right operating system. Our Head of Product John Cutler is sitting down with Rise8 Founder & CEO Bryon Kroger to talk about what that looks like in practice, especially inside government. They'll unpack the thinking behind how they operate and get into the patterns John sees with customers: where teams find traction, where they get stuck, and what separates the ones that deliver. 🗓️ Friday, March 13 • 11:30AM ET 🎥 RSVP to join live: https://bit.ly/4b8RJDx
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Etch this into your product brain: time allocation != capacity allocation. Points (or even "flow") allocation != capacity allocation. Both comparisons feel logical, yet are deeply flawed. I run into this every day when chatting with customers and prospects at Dotwork. The intent is good....but there's a fundamental gap in terms of how the system is being perceived.
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If your portfolio review answers "are teams busy?" instead of "are we making the right bets?", you're managing work, not leading. Legacy SPM tools were built to manage work at scale. Leadership's job isn't managing work. It's steering investments and outcomes. The difference: Managing work = Did we ship what we planned? Steering business = Should we still be funding this? By the time most portfolio tools show risk, it's already baked into spend, roadmaps, and team commitments. Steering requires something different: live connections between strategy, execution, dependencies, and outcomes. Not next quarter. This week. Dotwork shifts the focus from tracking delivery to steering decisions so leaders can intervene earlier, reallocate faster, and stop funding initiatives that no longer make sense.