Product Agility
Exploring the intersection or product and agility
The world of Product Discovery and Creation is becoming increasingly challenging due to mistakes and missed opportunities that are prevalent in agile teams, large-scale Scrum and all other agile frameworks. History has shown that when organisations try and scale their product development to more than one cross-functional team, mistakes are made that cut short many chances of getting all possible benefits.
The route of this for many is the need for more attention paid to the incredible advancements in Product Management driven by hordes of professional Product People who prove that making their customers happier is not a pipe dream but a hard and fast reality.
This podcast exists to explore all topics related to Product, Agility, & Coaching.
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Agility over Agile (with Jag Johal)
Send us a text In this episode, Ben Maynard is joined by Jag Johal, Director of Agile Transformation at Jaguar Land Rover, for a refreshingly candid conversation on what it really takes to move the needle in a complex, scaled business—and why it’s time to focus on agility, not just Agile. With a bac...
The Sriracha Sauce of High-Performance Teams: Adam Josephs on Risk Up Front
Send us a text In this episode, host Ben Maynard is joined by Adam Josephs, the co-author of Risk Up Front, to explore the gritty truth behind high-performance teams and why rigour, not ruthlessness, is the key ingredient in complex, high-stakes environments. If you’ve ever wondered why your team’s ...
Stop Trying To Fixing Teams. Start Coaching for Meaning
Send us a text In this solo episode, host Ben Maynard explores a shift in thinking that many coaches and leaders need to make: moving away from trying to fix teams and instead focusing on coaching for meaning. If you're involved in organisational change—whether as a product leader, agile coach, or t...
Agile Coaching is Dead!
Send us a text In this no-holds-barred solo episode, host Ben Maynard delivers a searing obituary for agile coaching — or at least, the version of it we’ve come to know. If you’re a senior leader investing in agile or a coach trying to stay relevant, this episode is for you. Ben doesn’t just diagnos...
Stop Worshipping the Roadmap: Start Building Real Relationships
Send us a text In this episode of the Product Agility Podcast, host Ben Maynard challenges one of the most pervasive and damaging habits in product organisations: treating roadmaps like contracts. Ben explores why our obsession with polished timelines and rigid plans can undermine trust, limit learn...
Scaling Without Chaos: Creating Product-Tech Harmony
Send us a text In this episode of the Product Agility Podcast, host Ben Maynard tackles one of the most misunderstood and overlooked challenges in scaling product organisations: the persistent misalignment between product and technology teams. Ben explores how chaos at scale is often a design flaw, ...
Helping People Grow Beyond Their Job Titles
Send us a text In this episode of the Product Agility Podcast, host Ben Maynard shares a practical approach to helping people grow beyond their job titles—an approach that improves collaboration, accelerates delivery, and supports meaningful development without adding unnecessary bureaucracy. At the...
How to Predict Success Before It’s Too Late – The Power of Leading Metrics
Send us a text In this episode of the Product Agility Podcast, host Ben Maynard explores the role of leading and lagging metrics in product strategy, OKRs, and business impact. Many teams rely on lagging metrics to measure success, but when the results are in, it’s often too late to make meaningful ...