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.

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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.

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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.

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3 Ways Leaders Can Cultivate a Learning Culture and Build Insanely Curious Product Teams

Discover 3 ways to foster a learning culture in product teams, turning curiosity into a driving force for innovation.

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Winning with product management in 2024 via lean leverage

In 2024, product management may gain an advantage by embracing the concept of “lean leverage,” a strategy focused on achieving more by doing less but better.

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Your new product value flow assistant—my dependency breaking GPT

Transform business agility with Coach Lankford GPT – expert dependency breaking strategies for seamless value delivery and team empowerment.

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How an output focus makes teams fail at Scrum

Are you starting Scrum by only focusing on outputs? You are missing out. Using Scrum for outputs without outcomes & team engagement is a mistake.

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Why is your product team so lazy?

“My team consistently rolls work over from Sprint-to-Sprint. Why is it not motivated to finish what it starts? It doesn’t deliver what it commits to deliver. I must have the wrong people.” Do you ever hear this? Do you say it about your teams? We blame the team, but we should not.

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Too much specialization destroys your product team

When we envision mastery, we often think about becoming an expert in our specialty. But today’s product teams need less specialization, not more. Mastery today is about diversification, not specialization.

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Three “Right” Ways to Develop Your Product

Is it more important to build the “right” thing, build it “right,” or treat the team “right?” I explore how these three “rights” contribute to great products in my latest post.

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