I gave a talk at Agile 2025 in Denver 28-July 2025. It was my first talk post TBI, and as I’m writing, could have been my worst, my weirdest, or both. That said, here are the slides before I gave the talk:| We help you create successful product culture and process
The first step for any organization adopting a product operating model or making a project to product transformation is identifying their products. This article describes the simple product decomposition model I use to help organizations identify their digital products so that they can then organize teams around them.| We help you create successful product culture and process
I use this simple product type canvas in conjunction with the product decomposition model to identify digital products in an organization. This simple template gives every product team enough information to understand customers and users and really measure the value their products create.| We help you create successful product culture and process
I’ve heard lots of people wrestle with defining what a product is. Those discussions always leave me confused. Because it’s a lot simpler than anyone seems to describe it. The short answer to “what is a product?” Is EVERYTHING. Everything is a product as long as you look at it through a product lens. This article describes how to do that.| We help you create successful product culture and process
This article describes the continuous product improvement cycle: the foundational model I use in teaching product development. The article describes why products continuously improve and why there’s an expectation that tech products improve faster.| We help you create successful product culture and process
I’ve got 7 areas I think about when talking to and evaluating a product manager and here they are.| We help you create successful product culture and process
This article is really some of the common mistakes I see people and teams make when they create and work with story maps. 1. Losing the story 2. Getting lost in the details 3. Worrying too much about flow, branches, and what-abouts 4. Mapping the whole product when you’re trying to add a single feature 5. Not anchoring releases on an outcome| We help you create successful product culture and process
This article describes my beliefs on what product vision is and isn’t.| We help you create successful product culture and process
Beam me up| We help you create successful product culture and process
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Why the flat user story backlog doesn’t work, and how to build a better backlog that will help you more effectively explain your system, prioritize, and plan your releases.| We help you create successful product culture and process
Tl;dr:| We help you create successful product culture and process
tl;dr:| We help you create successful product culture and process
My friend Marty Cagan released two articles, this one and this one, describing some of the challenges to product thinking. You should read them. He’s right. | We help you create successful product culture and process
