Lean Leverage

Lean leverage is about simplifying. It is what happens when you remove the inessential to deliver maximum outcomes. When the superfluous is out of the way, you get two benefits. First, you don’t waste energy on what is not needed, and second, you focus more quality time on what needs to be done. Follow me on this journey in 2024 below:

Get ready to ease your product journey.

Are you ready to enable maximum outcomes without heavy processes and tooling? If so, you have come to the right place. Here you will find simple techniques to achieve lean leverage amidst today’s high complexity and uncertainty.

Lean Leverage: Achieve more, with less in 2024

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• #47: Why Good Judgment Still Outwits AI: Lessons For Leaders To Avoid Work With No Soul: Discover why good judgment outwits AI. Learn actionable lessons for leaders to avoid soulless work and harness AI responsibly for better outcomes.
• #46: How I Help Managers Stop Spinning and Deliver Results for Their Product Teams: Learn how to help managers stop juggling too many things and start delivering results. Avoid common traps and boost team outcomes with this 3-step formula.
• #45: Escape the Backlog Black Hole: How I Help Product Owners Harvest Early Value: Escape backlog chaos with 5 tips for Product Owners to deliver real value. Focus on outcomes, user needs, and early wins over endless tickets.
• #44: Why Working Solo Destroys Your Product Team—and How to Fix It Fast: Solo work weakens product teams. Learn to fix it fast with my 3-step guide to boost teamwork, improve outcomes, and deliver better results for your users.
• #43: Why Great Products Don’t Result From Playing it Safe: Learn why detailed product plans fail and how to boost your outcomes with 6 steps to focus on learning, iteration, user involvement, and small, safe moves.
• #42: Can We Save the Scrum Master Role Before It Becomes Extinct? Discover how to save the Scrum Master role from extinction with practical answers to 21 key questions. Boost your relevance and impact in Agile teams today.
• #41: The Real Reasons Why Most Product Teams Struggle to Delight Users: Discover why most products fail to delight users and learn how to shift from rigid planning to outcome-focused success with this 5-step guide.
• #40: How I Unlock Unmatched Product Team Autonomy by Building Craft and Mastery: Unlock unmatched product team autonomy by building craft and mastery with this 6-step guide. Learn how to empower your teams for greater success.
• #39: Why the Right Product Mindset Without Action Is No Better Than the Wrong One: Turn your product mindset into action with 4 steps to beat cultural barriers and drive change in your organization. Start aligning beliefs with results.
• #38: How Scrum Masters (and Managers) Go Astray By Committing to Plans: Discover why committing to plans leads Scrum teams astray and learn 8 steps to embrace learning for better product outcomes and team autonomy.
• #37: How I Build Powerful Product Teams Without Boundaries and Governance: Learn how to build powerful product teams without boundaries or rigid governance with this simple, 3-step guide to foster innovation and adaptability.
• #36: How I Empower Product Teams to Take Ownership by Breaking Down Walls: Empower product teams with end-to-end involvement, solving problems, & supportive leadership. Transform order takers into problem solvers for real results.
• #35: How Scrum Masters Can Unleash Lean Flow by Being Control Freaks: Learn how Scrum Masters can enhance lean flow by breaking dependencies and eliminating waste, ensuring smoother value delivery and effective teamwork.
• #34: Planning Vs. Action: Why a Product Team’s Best Bet Is Real-world Evidence: Prioritization fails product teams. Learn why real-world action and iterative evidence lead to better outcomes than elaborate planning and prioritization.
• #33: How I Learned Outcomes Don’t Come From a Breakthrough First Effort: Learn why great outcomes stem from patient practice, not perfect planning. Embrace real-world feedback and iteration to create products users love.
• #32: Perfect Vs. Good: How I Drive Product Outcomes Sooner Through Imperfection: Learn why striving for perfection can hinder product success and discover how to drive outcomes sooner by balancing quality and imperfection.
• #31: How Do Scrum Masters Rethink Their Role On a Team to Avoid Extinction: Scrum Masters: Rethink your role to avoid extinction. Focus on self-organization, removing obstacles, anticipating problems, and radiating team information.
• #30: Scrum Sprints Are the New Deadline Whip: How to Avoid This Bad Belief Trap: Transform Scrum by focusing on learning, not deadlines. Avoid common pitfalls and make your Sprints more effective with a learning-forward approach.
• #29: How to Reclaim Team Flow Fast by Relieving Your Dependency on Experts: Learn to boost team productivity by reducing reliance on experts. Discover 5 steps to reclaim team flow and create self-reliant, high-performing teams.
• #28: How to Abandon the Daily Stand-up Hamster Wheel Without Going to Scrum Jail: Transform your Daily Scrum: Empower developers, eliminate status updates, and simplify meetings for more effective, team-driven collaboration.
• #27: How to Reboot Collaboration in a Remote Team Without Being on Zoom All Day: Boost remote team collaboration with the 1-1-1 Framework. Achieve more in less time without endless Zoom calls. Discover 5 steps for extreme focus and flow.
• #26: Why I Never Rely on Deadlines Anymore to Motivate Performance: Discover why relying on deadlines hinders performance and increases stress. Get my 5-step guide to boost productivity without deadlines.
• #25: How I Stopped Chasing Outputs and Focused on Meaningful Results That Matter: Learn why chasing outputs can lead to failure. Focus on impactful outcomes instead. Discover practical steps to shift your mindset and achieve real results.
• #24: Scrum Isn’t Dead But Its Mutation In The Wild Today Needs A Cure: Discover the 4 root causes killing Scrum’s effectiveness and learn practical ways to revive its potential. Scrum isn’t dead, but it needs reviving.
• #23: Is AI Finally the Answer for Unlocking Breathtaking Product Team Performance?: Explore AI’s role in product development: Is it a game-changer or hype? Discover why chasing AI efficiency might miss the mark in achieving better outcomes.
• #22: Remove These 3 Common Mistakes to Reawaken Your Product Team: Streamline your product team by removing scale, reducing backlogs, and promoting cross-functional skills for improved value flow and customer focus.
• #21: One Lesson That Forever Changed How I Look at Outcomes:
  Discover the lesson that reshaped my approach to outcomes and led to the Pyramid of Value. Learn how to prioritize outcomes over outputs and embrace the unknown for better results.
• #20: How I Overcame a Toxic Management Belief to Unleash Team Autonomy: Avoid a common toxic management belief to build autonomy, and follow 5 proven steps for building a problem-solving culture.
• #19: My Top 10 Favorite, Fast Ways To Amplify Team Focus (And Return To Sanity): Explore my top 10 strategies to enhance team focus, reduce chaos, and reclaim flow by eliminating noise to focus on the essential. Reduce to produce.
• #18: 4 Crazy Moves Leaders Can Make Today To Actually Improve Team Outcomes: Explore 4 unconventional leadership strategies that challenge the norm and dramatically enhance team outcomes, proving that a little craziness pays off.
• #17: Beating Deadlines 101: How to Outsmart the Corporate Obsession: Grab 18 small but powerful tips any manager can use to win at the deadline game.
• #16: A Quick Guide to Avoid the #1 Mistake With User Stories: Learn to differentiate user stories from requirements, avoiding common output-fixation pitfalls in product development for better outcomes.
• #15: Apply These 5 Product Team Tactics to Bypass Emotion and Act With Clarity: Discover 5+1 tactics to beat emotion-driven development, fostering clarity & change in product teams. Embrace Lean Leverage & customer focus for success.
• #14: The Impacts of Change on the Brain and 5 Helpful Tweaks Change Agents Must Make: With change, fear and uncertainty creep up fast, followed by resistance. How does this affect the brain? Read this to find out, and learn 5 tweaks change agents must make to navigate it better.
• #13: 8 Ways to Connect Teams to Customers and Avoid the Mistake of Backlog Fixation: Explore 8 strategies to know your customers better & move beyond backlog focus. Learn to bridge the gap between product teams & customers for success.
• #12: How Managers Embrace Change Like a Leader By Not Running Away From Friction: Discover how managers transition to leaders by embracing friction during change. 4 steps for navigating resistance and a tip for dealing with scale safely.
• #11 Don’t Neglect the 3 Critical Ingredients of Every Successful Change: Discover 3 ingredients of successful change: the will to embrace it, the skills to navigate it, and a safe space for it. And learn how to make it stick.
• #10: How Savvy Product Leaders Handle 5 Common Stakeholder Asks Without Betting on Hope: Discover how savvy product leaders navigate stakeholder asks with evidence-driven responses to common asks, avoiding false promises based on hope.
• #9: The Quiet Voices On a Product Team Are Its Powerful, Secret Weapon: Empower quiet voices in your product team with my 6 simple strategies to unlock their hidden power and enhance team dynamics.
• #8: The 9 Rare Traits of Unstoppable Product Teams Who Fear No Obstacle: Discover 9 traits of unstoppable product teams that transform obstacles into success, focusing on customer delight, teamwork, and continuous improvement.
• #7: Master Outcome Success: Surpass 97% of Product Teams With 4 Simple Patterns: Unlock the power of outcome mastery and elevate your product team’s performance with these 4 transformative patterns. Surpass 97% of your peers effortlessly.
• #6: The Inescapable Deadline: 5 Reasons Managers of Product Teams Keep Setting Them: Explore why managers set deadlines for product teams and their impact on motivation. Learn better, deadline-free success strategies.
• #5: How Product Teams Claim Victory Too Soon and Let Value Slip Away (And How Not To): Explore why product teams often celebrate too soon, missing out on real value. Learn strategies to ensure meaningful success and claim real victory.
• #4: 8 Signals of Low Product Team Purpose | No Engagement Surveys Needed: Explore the 8 signals of the conditions that sabotage product team purpose. Learn to foster autonomy and mastery for stronger, purpose-driven teams.
• #3: 3 Ways Leaders Can Cultivate a Learning Culture and Build Insanely Curious Product Teams: Discover 3 ways to foster curious product teams, turning a learning culture into a driving force for innovation. You have to remove what’s in the way.
• #2: How to optimize product team success: measure what matters – Discover the key to product team success: Learn how to measure what matters and use lean leverage to ensure peak performance and outcomes
• #1: Winning with product management in 2024 via lean leverage – A new, simpler approach to achieve more value with less complexity.