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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Agility coaching redefined—meet my continuous improvement GPT

Whether you’re leading a team or steering an organization, this GPT offers core insights to support continuous improvement and business agility.

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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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Agile Leader Pattern 1 for Building Awesome Teams: Encourage Different Perspectives

Friction is a good thing. Many of the traditional beliefs about teams work against the potential benefits of teams. J.…

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