Psychological Safety: Misunderstood, Yet Mission-Critical
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by Stefan Wolpers
2d ago
TL; DR: Psychological Safety as a Competitive Edge Psychological safety isn’t about fluffy “niceness”—it is the foundation of agile teams that innovate, adapt, and deliver. When teams fearlessly debate ideas, admit mistakes, challenge norms, and find ways to make progress, they can outperform most competitors. Yet, many organizations knowingly or unknowingly sabotage psychological safety—a short-sighted... Read more » The post Psychological Safety: Misunderstood, Yet Mission-Critical appeared first on Age-of-Product.com ..read more
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Food for Agile Thought #479: Deep Research, Deleting Your Backlog, Product OS Competencies, Is Change Management Dead?
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by Stefan Wolpers
2d ago
TL; DR: Deep Research — Food for Agile Thought #479 Welcome to the 479th edition of the Food for Agile Thought newsletter, shared with 42,738 peers. This week, Zvi Mowshowitz and Ethan Mollick dissect OpenAI’s Deep Research, an AI-driven research agent poised to transform knowledge work but raising concerns about cost and safety. Andrej Karpathy... Read more » The post Food for Agile Thought #479: Deep Research, Deleting Your Backlog, Product OS Competencies, Is Change Management Dead? appeared first on Age-of-Product.com ..read more
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The Great Agile Reset: Moving Beyond Frameworks in the Age of AI
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by Stefan Wolpers
1w ago
TL; DR: Moving Beyond Agile Frameworks in the Agile Reset Remember my article from six months ago about reinventing Hands-on Agile to counter the great agile reset? (Just kidding; of course, you don’t.) Back then, I reflected on how to adapt my business model best, given the massive changes in the marketplace for “Agile.” (See... Read more » The post The Great Agile Reset: Moving Beyond Frameworks in the Age of AI appeared first on Age-of-Product.com ..read more
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Food for Agile Thought #478: DeepSeek, Product Model OS, AI Prototyping, Agile = Delivery?
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by Stefan Wolpers
1w ago
TL; DR: DeepSeek, Product Model OS — Food for Agile Thought #478 Welcome to the 478th edition of the Food for Agile Thought newsletter, shared with 42,750 peers. This week, John Cutler explores the nuances of product operating systems, emphasizing leadership-driven design and enabling constraints. Ben Thompson, Dario Amodei, and Steven Sinofsky analyze DeepSeek ’s... Read more » The post Food for Agile Thought #478: DeepSeek, Product Model OS, AI Prototyping, Agile = Delivery? appeared first on Age-of-Product.com ..read more
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Stop Shipping Waste: How to Align Teams and Finally Fix Your Product Backlog
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by Stefan Wolpers
2w ago
TL;DR: Stop Shipping Waste When product teams fail to establish stakeholder alignment and implement rigorous Product Backlog management, they get caught in an endless cycle of competing priorities, reactive delivery, and shipping waste. The result? Wasted resources, frustrated teams, and missed business opportunities. Success in 2025 requires turning your Product Backlog from a chaotic wish... Read more » The post Stop Shipping Waste: How to Align Teams and Finally Fix Your Product Backlog appeared first on Age-of-Product.com ..read more
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Food for Agile Thought #477: AI Playbook for Product Managers, Real Psychological Safety, Systemic Product Strategy, Capacity Allocation
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by Stefan Wolpers
2w ago
TL; DR: AI Playbook for Product Managers — Food for Agile Thought #477 Welcome to the 477th edition of the Food for Agile Thought newsletter, shared with 42,791 peers. This week, Aakash Gupta provides an AI playbook for Product Managers to leverage AI effectively, while Martijn Oost critiques oversimplified organizational change, emphasizing context and experimentation.... Read more » The post Food for Agile Thought #477: AI Playbook for Product Managers, Real Psychological Safety, Systemic Product Strategy, Capacity Allocation appeared first on Age-of-Product.com ..read more
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Escape the Feature Frenzy, Build to Sell with Sandrine Olivencia – Hands-on Agile 66
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by Stefan Wolpers
3w ago
TL; DR: Escape the Feature Frenzy, Build to Sell with Sandrine Olivencia — Hands-on Agile 66 Join Sandrine Olivencia on how to escape the Feature Frenzy and build instead products and services that sell. (The recording is in English.) ? Watch the video now: Escape the Feature Frenzy, Build to Sell with Sandrine Olivencia – Hands-on... Read more » The post Escape the Feature Frenzy, Build to Sell with Sandrine Olivencia – Hands-on Agile 66 appeared first on Age-of-Product.com ..read more
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Food for Agile Thought #476: PM Career-Defining AI Skills, Graph Theory for Orgs, Budget for Change, High-Performance Team Toolbox
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by Stefan Wolpers
3w ago
TL; DR: PM Career-Defining AI Skills — Food for Agile Thought #476 Welcome to the 476th edition of the Food for Agile Thought newsletter, shared with 42,817 peers. This week, we feature John Cutler on how Lean principles adapt to stabilize scaling challenges, Simon Powers on budgeting strategies for impactful organizational change, and Steven Sinofsky... Read more » The post Food for Agile Thought #476: PM Career-Defining AI Skills, Graph Theory for Orgs, Budget for Change, High-Performance Team Toolbox appeared first on Age-of-Product.com ..read more
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Forensic Product Backlog Analysis — A New Team Exercise
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by Stefan Wolpers
1M ago
TL; DR: Forensic Product Backlog Analysis Exercise The Forensic Product Backlog Analysis: A 60-minute team exercise to fix your Backlog. Identify what’s broken, find out why, and agree on practical fixes—all in five quick steps. There is no fluff, just results. Want technical excellence and solve customer problems? Start with a solid Product Backlog. ?... Read more » The post Forensic Product Backlog Analysis — A New Team Exercise appeared first on Age-of-Product.com ..read more
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Food for Agile Thought #475: Natural Agility, Fake Product Transformations, AI Product Management, Fail a Lot!
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by Stefan Wolpers
1M ago
TL; DR: Natural Agility — Food for Agile Thought #475 Welcome to the 475th edition of the Food for Agile Thought newsletter, shared with 42,812 peers. This week, Dave Snowden challenges the “Agile Industrial Complex” to move beyond rote behaviors toward fostering natural agility and strategic impact. Charles Lambdin dissects Agile’s waning influence, citing political... Read more » The post Food for Agile Thought #475: Natural Agility, Fake Product Transformations, AI Product Management, Fail a Lot! appeared first on Age-of-Product.com ..read more
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