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I love sharing insights that help agile professionals benefit from true agility. Over the last three years, I gave 100+ talks live streamed and in person in multiple countries.

Sharing learnings and experiences drives me.

Just Product - Are You Doing Product Management or Bullshit Management?

A provocative talk on digital product management at the Just Product Conference. Watch to learn why many product managers are demoted to backlog managers

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Untrapping Product Teams – Agile Get Together

Teams face common challenges, and that’s inevitable. What matters most is how you deal with traps awaiting you. I shared my tips of untrapping product teams during this talk.

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Extreme Backlog Cleaning – Productbeats

Adding by subtracting. How to clean your product backlog and add value by doing it.

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How to Drive Value When Everyone Distracts You

What does success mean? For many product managers or product owners, it means:

  • Maximizing features
  • Increasing velocity
  • Meeting deadlines
  • Pleasing stakeholders

The above reflects the old ways. The more you face that, the quicker you become a backlog manager.

This talk addresses how to overcome such challenges.

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HelloPM – Strategy, Coaching and Career in Product Management

A lovely exchange with Ankit Shukla, founder of HelloPM. We went on diverse topics but were quite open, from how I became a PM to key aspects of product strategy.

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Untrapping Product Teams – Agile to Agility

Delivering crap nobody needs cannot be why Product Teams exist. I’m tired of feature factories. It’s time to create value!

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Product Owner Beyond Scrum – Serious Scrum Unconference

What does it take to thrive as a Product Owner? Scrum doesn’t tell you how to get there. You’ve got to figure it out on your own.

I talked about this topic at Serious Scrum Unconference. Watch the recordings.

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Breaking into Product Without Experience

If you’ve got no experience with product management, how could you get a job as a Product Owner or a Product Manager? Maarten and I had an exchange about it.

To know how you could start your product journey, you can benefit from this talk.

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The Rebel Product Owner

When you get a job as a Product Owner, you will inevitably face anti-patters. How you deal with them will determine how successful you can be. Many times you’ve got to be bold and take risks, asking for permission is not often a choice you have.

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The Product Beats Show

How can you succeed as a Product Owner given that most environments are dysfunctional. Your attitude is key to your success. Following the rules may block you from thriving, but being rebel can increase the odds of being successful.

In February, 2021, I had a great talk with Petra Färm about being a Rebel Product Owner. To know more about it, watch this video.

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How to be a Product Owner

Do you want to become a Product Owner? You’ve get to understand what that means and what it doesn’t. During this live session, I shared common anti-patterns that holds many Product Owners from leading teams successfully.

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