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.

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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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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, and learn strategies to ensure meaningful success and claim real victory.

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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.

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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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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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