Untrapping Product Teams Podcast

Are your Scrum practices silently sabotaging your team's success? It shocks me how some teams get bugged with Scrum and fall prey to a process instead of using it to create value. I’m not claiming Scrum is bad, but limiting it to a process is definitely a bad choice. Untrapping Product Teams is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or pa...

Podcasting with Jim Highsmith , co-author of Agile Manifesto, is an honor. Jim is more than a legend to me, he’s a great person. Can you imagine that he helped me with my book without even knowing me? That’s what happened. Some time ago I wrote something quite provocative, “ Agile Manifesto Is Long Gone! We Need a Product Manifesto !” Jim dropped me a message and we chatted about it. After some ti...

Stop focusing on features. Start driving value. How a lean mindset can help you break free from creating waste. An insightful conversation with Ash Maurya , whom I tremendously respect and was honored to receive a foreword to my book, Untraping Product Teams . Before we jump into the chat with Ash, let me tell you one important thing. In a special collaboration with Pearson, the book publisher, we...

How can we accelerate product delivery? Often, I stumble upon this question, but it’s the wrong one. A feature factory company would ask that, while a product company would ask a different question. How fast can we drop bad ideas? Before I answer this question, let me say thanks to everyone who messages me and supports me with my book. It’s amazing! For those curious, here’s where you can read a s...

Output-oriented roadmaps. Stakeholders pressure. Longing for predictability. Exhausting planning meetings. All the above cripple product teams. It removes the chances of creating value fast enough while increasing the odds of delivering crap. Sadly, that’s the reality of many product teams. I don’t want to make you feel powerless. I want to empower you to overcome significant traps like these, so...

A few weeks ago, I had an insightful conversation with Shyvee about how PMs can best use AI. This talk is a goldmine for anyone looking to leverage AI's potential in their work. Shyvee is a product lead on LinkedIn and co-author of Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI . She was more than generous in sharing incredible knowledge during this 50-minute chat. Before I share the knowledge n...