The problem isn’t what to build—it’s what to cut Every product team has more ideas than capacity. That’s not the hard part. The hard part is getting a room full of stakeholders to...

Why backlog grooming feels like pulling teeth Your backlog has 347 items. Half of them were added by people who’ve left the company. A third haven’t been touched in six months. And every...

Your stakeholders want a roadmap with dates. Your engineering team says estimates are unreliable. And you’re stuck in the middle, either overpromising and disappointing people or padding...

You’ve got a promising product idea, a roadmap that makes sense, and a team ready to build. But here’s the uncomfortable truth: your entire plan is built on a stack of assumptions you...

The problem with your product backlog You’ve got 200 items in your backlog, meticulously groomed and prioritized. But when someone asks “what does this product actually do for...

The moment that changes everything Most startups don’t fail because they build the wrong thing. They fail because they think they’ve found product-market fit when they haven’t —...