Season 3
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 ...
Beyond User Stories: How Jobs to Be Done Unlocks Real Customer Value (with Jim Kalbach)
Send us a text In this week’s 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 development—our 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...