Finish the Year With New Product Skills
A lot of the agile practices have become standard (at least in name). Organizing work in iterations is commonplace. Cross-functional teams are more common than… Read More
Key Ideas of the Week
Our First Class of Certified CAPED Consultants
We’re always afraid to go to the complex because it’s the unknown. CAPED gives us the guardrails and parameters on how to think about the… Read More
Are You Defining Your Contribution Too Narrowly?
I was talking with a Head of Security who was drowning. Overwhelmed, reactive, constantly pulled in every direction. He’d become a bottleneck for his entire… Read More
Asking Why Without “Why”
With their Five Whys, Toyota made asking “why?” the go-to root cause analysis technique. Author Simon Sinek got famous for telling leaders to “Start… Read More
Scrum or Kanban? (And Why That’s Not Really The Question)
“Should we switch from Scrum to Kanban?” We get this question all the time from struggling teams. Usually after a few rough sprints where commitments… Read More
How You Start Is Everything
Whether your next big initiative delivers value quickly or becomes a million-dollar lesson in what not to do comes down to one decision: what you… Read More
When you can’t say “Agile”
Agile wasn’t working. It was, frankly, chaos. Planning never went beyond two weeks. Retrospectives didn’t really lead to improvement. Estimates weren’t trusted by anybody. Susan,… Read More
Why Take a CSPO Course in 2025?
Here in the second half of 2025, a lot of Scrum feels either commonplace (“Pretty much every team uses sprints—I don’t need a class for… Read More
5 Ways AI Prototypes Mess With Your Brain
Modern AI tools let product managers generate high-fidelity prototypes—things users can actually interact with. This new capability is powerful, but it amplifies some predictable patterns… Read More
2 AI+Backlog Pitfalls to Watch Out For
The other day, I was talking with a technology leader who’s responsible for a portfolio of internal business applications. He and his teams deal with… Read More