· Blog
Book Report: Developing Products in Half the Time
A review of Reinertsen and Smith’s landmark book on fast product development — lean principles for time-to-market that still hold up today.
Tag: for-product-managers
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- · Kanban
Scrum Sprint Commitment Rant
Why treating sprint plans as binding commitments undermines trust, velocity, and team health — and what a healthier take on planning looks like.
- · Agile
Try an Agile FedEx Day for Accelerated Innovation
FedEx Days — 24-hour innovation sprints — as a way to experience agile at full speed while generating real creative output that can feed the product backlog.
- · Games
Simulating Time-Boxed Agile in getKanban
How to add sprint mechanics to the getKanban board game — making it a useful simulation for comparing time-boxed and flow-based approaches side by side.
- · Agile
What do I need to know to be a Product Owner?
A starter guide for new Product Owners — the knowledge, mindset, and skills needed to succeed from day one without getting buried in backlog details.
- · Blog
Metrics for Product Management Effectiveness
Practical metrics for measuring product management effectiveness — how the PM process is contributing to or constraining product development performance.