Season 3
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 titlesβan approach that improves collaboration, accelerates delivery, and supports meaningful development without adding unnecessary bureaucracy. At the...
How to Predict Success Before Itβs Too Late β 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, itβs often too late to make meaningful ...
Beyond User Stories: How Jobs to Be Done Unlocks Real Customer Value (with Jim Kalbach)
Send us a text In this weekβs episode of the Product Agility Podcast, Ben is joined by Jim Kalbach, an expert in design, innovation, and the Jobs to Be Done (JTBD) framework. Together, they tackle one of the biggest blind spots in product developmentβour over-reliance on user stories and how shiftin...
LeSS Conference 2022 Keynote Reflections with Frederic Siepmann
Send us a text This year at the LeSS Conferences 2022, eeping with tradition, the two Keynote speeches were from LeSS Creators Bas Vodde and Craig Larman Bas Vodde - Maximizing Dependencies with Interdependent Teams Craig Larman - TBD Frederic and I got together to reflect on the two keynotes and sh...
Welcoming The Newest LeSS Trainer Robert BatΕ―Ε‘ek - LeSS Conference 2022
Send us a text Its always exciting when a mentee achieves something epic. Having mentored Robert through the Certified LeSS Trainer process it was a nothing but joy to meet up with him in Warsaw to talk about that journey and his brilliant case study. Roberts Solarwinds Case Study Robert on LinkedIn...
Agile Adoptions, Why Do they Make Us Feel Like Imposters: Artem Bykovets at the LeSS Conference 2022
Send us a text Artem grabbed me at the LeSS Conference 2022 because he wanted to talk about something important to him, turns out it was important to me too. Why do Agile adoptions make agile coaches feel like imposters? And Why is the pull of status quo so hard? There are a few golden nuggets in th...