“But What If We Need That Later?”
A product owner I’m coaching recently pushed through the hard part of a backlog overhaul. They organized a sprawling pile of stories into features, put… Read More
Two Moves When Everything’s Priority #1
“This is our top priority now. Everything else falls by the wayside.” A leader at one of our clients said this recently to a product… Read More
The Suggestion Box Retro (and the ORID fix)
Most teams judge a retrospective by the energy of the conversation and the number of action items on the board at the end. Full board,… Read More
8 Problems That Masquerade as ‘Our Sprint Is Too Short’
In our coaching, we often hear, “Our sprint length is too short. We want to change it from X to Y weeks.” The time box… Read More
Claude’s Plan Looked Completely Reasonable
I recently built a small internal app with Claude Code to solve a longtime pain we’ve had. The results were great in the end, but… Read More
Don’t Build Workflows Left-to-Right
Workflows. They’re at the core of most business systems. And they have a common shape: gather data (from humans and/or various other systems), process the… Read More
Two Months to One Week
Last week, I shared results from our poll on cross-functional teams. Only about a quarter of respondents said their team was set up to deliver… Read More
Surprisingly few teams are actually cross-functional…is yours?
We’re back after an insane May teaching CAPED (Complexity-Aware Planning, Estimation, & Delivery) workshops, including our flagship Certified CAPED Consultant course in Boston… Read More
Precision Bias and AI in Product Management
LLMs drive the cost of detail and polish to zero. ChatGPT or Claude can spit out a detailed PRD or a long list of user… Read More
Vertical Slicing’s Elephant in the Room
I just wrapped up three straight months of teaching vertical slicing workshops with different clients. I helped them learn how to slice initiatives into Minimum… Read More