Recommended Resources
People, Books & Tools
Worth Your Time
A curated list of the people, books, communities, and tools that have most shaped my thinking and practice over 17+ years.
People Worth Following
Don Reinertsen ↗
Product development flow, queueing theory applied to product work: essential thinking for anyone serious about delivery systems.
Marty Cagan ↗
Empowered product teams, product discovery, what separates product companies from feature factories.
Jeff Gothelf & Josh Seiden ↗
Lean UX, Sense & Respond: outcome-driven approaches to product and organizational design.
John Cutler ↗
Sharp, practical writing on product operations, org dynamics, and why good ideas die inside companies.
Melissa Perri ↗
Product operations, product management maturity, building product organizations that scale.
Mike Rother ↗
Toyota Kata: the Improvement Kata and Coaching Kata for systematic continuous improvement.
Essential Books
Principles of Product Development Flow ↗
Don Reinertsen. The most rigorous treatment of why and how to manage flow in product development. Dense but worth it.
Empowered ↗
Marty Cagan. What it actually takes to build product teams the way the best companies do it.
Lean Startup ↗
Eric Ries. Build-measure-learn, validated learning, making experiments the unit of work: still foundational.
Sense & Respond ↗
Jeff Gothelf & Josh Seiden. Running an organization as a continuous learning and adapting system.
Team Topologies ↗
Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais. How to structure teams for fast flow: stream-aligned, platform, enabling, complicated subsystem.
Project to Product ↗
Mik Kersten. Flow Framework, moving from project-centric to product-centric value delivery.
Organizations & Communities
Scrum.org ↗
Professional Scrum: the evidence-based, prescriptive-free approach to Scrum practice and development.
Scaled Agile (SAFe) ↗
The Scaled Agile Framework: when used well, a useful scaffold for enterprise agility.
Kanban University ↗
The Kanban Method, classes of service, flow management at the team and portfolio level.
Lean Kanban Conference ↗
Where practitioners of flow-based methods share real patterns and case studies.
Sense & Respond Learning ↗
Jeff Gothelf's training organization: Lean UX, outcome-based product management.
Tools I Use or Recommend
PlanView / LeanKit ↗
Portfolio and team Kanban board: good for visualizing flow across multiple teams and programs.
Miro ↗
Digital whiteboard: for PI Planning, retrospectives, mapping value streams, and workshop facilitation.
Quantive (formerly Gtmhub) ↗
OKR software that can support connected, cascaded goals: when configured well.
Jira / Linear ↗
Tracking work at team level: Linear for modern product teams; Jira for enterprises with complex tooling ecosystems.