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Product Agility
by Ben Maynard
Less Method. More Meaning. The world of Product Discovery and Creation is becoming increasingly challenging due to mistakes and missed opportunities that are prevalent in agile teams, large-scale Scrum and all other agile frameworks. History has shown that when organisations try and scale their product development to more than one cross-functional team, mistakes are made that cut short many chances of getting all possible benefits. The route of this for many is the need for more attention paid to the incredible advancements in Product Management driven by hordes of professional Product People who prove that making their customers happier is not a pipe dream but a hard and fast reality. This podcast exists to explore all topics related to Product and Agility and Coaching. How do you marry the agile principles with Product discovery? Is it really possible to have hundreds of cross-
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Nesrine Changuel: Delight vs Utility: Why Emotional Connection Wins in Product Design - Productized 2025 TalkInTen
Send us Fan Mail Productized in Lisbon is exceptional — an energising, thoughtful conference for product leaders. We're honoured to partner with Productized again and grateful to Bobcats Coding for making this Lisbon series possible. In this Talk in Ten from the Product Agility Podcast recorded...
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Phil Hornby: Empower to Succeed: How to Make High‑Quality Decisions in Product - Productized 2025 TalkInTen
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to another brisk Talk in Ten recorded live at this year's Productized conference. In this episode, Phil Hornby (founder of For Product People) explains why empowerment in product teams really means the ability to make decisions that stick — and how to raise the quality of...
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Isabel Novais Machado: Designing Privacy by Default: Why Cookie Banners Can't Be the Future - Productized 2025 TalkInTen
Send us Fan Mail We’re honoured to partner again with the excellent Productized conference in Lisbon, Portugal — a brilliant gathering of product leaders, designers and builders that consistently sets the bar for thoughtful, practical conversations. A huge thank you to Productized for hosting us...
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Léa Samrani: The Art of Positive Friction: How Adding Steps Can Unlock Revenue - Productized 2025 TalkInTen
Send us Fan Mail We’re honoured to partner with the extraordinary Productized conference in Lisbon, Portugal. Productized consistently brings together the sharpest product thinkers and builders, and it’s a privilege to record our Talk in Ten series on location for the third year running. In this...
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Pippa Topp: Pockets of Brilliance: Small Behaviours, Big Product Impact - Productized 2025 TalkInTen
Send us Fan Mail We’re thrilled to be back at the exceptional Productized conference in Lisbon, Portugal — a world-class gathering for product thinkers, practitioners and leaders. It’s an honour to partner with Productized again and bring you a special series of ten-minute conversations recorded...
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Hugo Froes: Principles First: Simplifying Organizational Change - Productized 2025 TalkInTen
Send us Fan Mail We're thrilled to be back at the outstanding Productized conference in Lisbon - a must-attend gathering for product people - and honoured to partner with them for the third year running. Productized brings practical, high-signal conversations from the global product community and...
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Radhika Dutt: From Goals to Puzzles: A Different Way to Lead Product Teams - Productized 2025 TalkInTen
Send us Fan Mail Productized in Lisbon is exceptional: thoughtful programming, a warm international community, and practical ideas you can use Monday morning. We’re honoured to partner with Productized for the third year running and proud to bring you this special Talk-in-Ten series thanks to...
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Rich Mironov: The Real Cost of AI — Valuations, Bottlenecks & Business Cases - Productized 2025 TalkInTen
Send us Fan Mail We're honoured to partner with the Productized conference in Lisbon, Portugal — an amazing conference for gathering for product leaders, designers and innovators. Productized consistently delivers thoughtful programming, practical takeaways and a warm, curious community. We're...
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Davide Colla: Talk in Ten: Surviving Creativity When AI Feels Like Competition - Productized 2025 TalkInTen
Send us Fan Mail We're recording live from Lisbon at the exceptional Productized conference — an inspiring, high-calibre gathering for product people. We're honoured to partner with Productized for the third year running and grateful for their commitment to building a thoughtful, practical...
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Blagoja Golubovski: Redesigning Product Orgs for the AI Era — Turn Your Team from Cost Center to Revenue Engine - Productized 2025 TalkInTen
Send us Fan Mail In this Talk in Ten from Productised 2025, we sit down with Blagoja Golubovski (Head of Product, Usercentrics) to explore how product organisations must redesign themselves for the AI era. Together, they unpack the move from outputs to outcomes, how AI accelerates change, and why...
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David Pereira: Surviving AI: Product Strategy, Critical Thinking and Disruption - Productized 2025 TalkInTen
Send us Fan Mail Live from Lisbon, this Talk in Ten returns from the incredible Productized conference — an energising, thoughtful gathering for product leaders. We’re honoured to partner with Productized for the third year running and grateful to Bobcats Coding for making this Lisbon series...
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Krasi Bozhinkova: Navigating the Unknown: Flip, Pivot, Hack - Practical Tactics for Product Teams - Productized 2025 TalkInTen
Send us Fan Mail Productized in Lisbon, Portugal, continues to be one of the most inspiring product conferences in Europe — energetic, practical and full of cross-disciplinary ideas. We’re honoured to partner with Productized to bring live conversations from the stage to you. Recorded live at...
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Kinga Magyar: Vibe Coding: Building Software with Natural Language - Productized 2025 TalkInTen
Send us Fan Mail Productized Lisbon - an exceptional conference for product people. We're honoured to partner with Productized for the third year running - the energy, practical thinking and community in Lisbon make this event a must-attend for product leaders, and we're proud to bring you these...
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Tami Reiss: Building the Muscle of Influence - How Product Leaders Get People to Act - Productized 2025 TalkInTen
Send us Fan Mail Product Agility Podcast — Live from Productized, Lisbon We’re honoured to return to the Productized conference in Lisbon, Portugal for the third year running. Productized is a world-class gathering for product thinkers and makers - and we're proud to partner with them to bring…
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Preyash Shah: Designing Products for a Few: Navigating Enterprise Constraints & Customisation - Productized 2025 TalkInTen
Send us Fan Mail We’re recording from the brilliant Productized conference in Lisbon — a must-attend for product leaders, designers and builders. Productized consistently delivers thoughtful programming, real-world case studies and a welcoming community. We’re honoured to partner with Productized...
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Antonia Landi: Product Ops Masterclass: From Inertia to Impact - Productized 2025 TalkInTen
Send us Fan Mail Productized Lisbon is exceptional - and we’re honoured to partner with them for the third year running. Welcome to a special Talk in Ten from the Product Agility Podcast, recorded live at Productized in Lisbon. In this rapid-fire conversation, we sit down with Antonia Landy about...
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Alex Howard: From Founder to Product Leader: The Series A Blueprint & Why Outcomes Matter in the AI Era - Productized 2025 TalkInTen
Send us Fan Mail Productized Lisbon is world-class - inspiring sessions, brilliant community and hands-on conversations. We’re honoured to partner with Productized for the third year in a row. Welcome to a special Talk in Ten from the Product Agility Podcast, recorded live in Lisbon at…
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Chris Compston: Making the Product Shift: From Project Thinking to Organizational Capabilities - Productized 2025 TalkInTen
Send us Fan Mail Product Agility — Live from Productized, Lisbon We're thrilled to record at the excellent Productized conference in Lisbon, Portugal - a world-class gathering that consistently brings together the sharpest product minds. We’re honoured to partner with Productized for this series...
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Tobias Lichtenstern: Designing AI Service Experiences: Co-creation, Jobs-to-be-Done & Organisational Impact - Productized 2025 TalkInTen
Send us Fan Mail Live from Productized Lisbon 2025 - Episode Snapshot Productized in Lisbon is a genuinely exceptional conference for product thinkers - energetic, practical and future-focused. We're honoured to partner with Productized for this live series, bringing short, sharp conversations…
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Ayushman De Lang-Talwar: Stitching Systems and Sanity: Generative AI in Logistics and Mindful Product Leadership - Productized 2025 TalkInTen
Send us Fan Mail Live from Productized, Lisbon — a conference we think is exceptional. Productized brings together the sharpest product thinkers in a city built for ideas, and we're honoured to partner with them again for this live series. In this short Talk in 10 episode, we sit down at...
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Jason Knight: Product Management Isn’t Like the Books — and That’s Okay - Productised 2025 TalkInTen
Send us Fan Mail Live from Productized Lisbon: The Productized conference in Lisbon, Portugal is one of the most energising gatherings for product leaders — insightful, practical and human. We’re honoured to partner with Productized for this series and grateful to Bobcats Coding for making our...
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Tamas Kokeny: Designing for Token Economics: Practical AI Cost Strategy and Experimentation - Productized 2025 TalkInTen
Send us Fan Mail Product Agility Podcast — Live from Productized, Lisbon We're delighted to be back at the outstanding Productized conference in Lisbon — a world-class event that brings together product leaders, designers and builders to share the latest thinking in product strategy and org…
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Arne Kittler: Intentional Leadership in the AI Age: Avoiding Autopilot in Product Work - Productized 2025 TalkInTen
Send us Fan Mail We’re honoured to partner with the outstanding Productized conference in Lisbon, Portugal — a world-class event that brings together curious, practical product leaders. It’s a privilege to return for our third year and capture quick, sharp conversations with the people shaping...
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Bruce McCarthy: Connecting the Dots: Product Leadership & Managing Uncertainty - Productized 2025 TalkInTen
Send us Fan Mail Live from Productized Lisbon - a world-class conference for product people. Productized is one of the best product conferences in Europe: thoughtfully run, intensely practical and full of senior product leaders sharing real-world tactics. We're honoured to partner with…
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AI Revolution: The Journey of Bobcats Coding (with Barbara Varga-Baráth & Barbara Fazekas)
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Ben Maynard is joined by Barbara Varga Baráth CEO and Barbara Fazekas Chief Delivery Officer of Bobcats Coding, the AI-first product studio born from a coding bootcamp network and market testing. From Taekwondo mats and finance spreadsheets to context engineering...
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Agility over Agile (with Jag Johal)
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Ben Maynard is joined by Jag Johal, Director of Agile Transformation at Jaguar Land Rover, for a refreshingly candid conversation on what it really takes to move the needle in a complex, scaled business—and why it’s time to focus on agility, not just Agile. With…
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The Sriracha Sauce of High-Performance Teams: Adam Josephs on Risk Up Front
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, host Ben Maynard is joined by Adam Josephs, the co-author of Risk Up Front, to explore the gritty truth behind high-performance teams and why rigour, not ruthlessness, is the key ingredient in complex, high-stakes environments. If you’ve ever wondered why your...
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Stop Trying To Fixing Teams. Start Coaching for Meaning
Send us Fan Mail In this solo episode, host Ben Maynard explores a shift in thinking that many coaches and leaders need to make: moving away from trying to fix teams and instead focusing on coaching for meaning. If you're involved in organisational change—whether as a product leader, agile coach,...
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Agile Coaching is Dead!
Send us Fan Mail In this no-holds-barred solo episode, host Ben Maynard delivers a searing obituary for agile coaching — or at least, the version of it we’ve come to know. If you’re a senior leader investing in agile or a coach trying to stay relevant, this episode is for you. Ben doesn’t just...
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Stop Worshipping the Roadmap: Start Building Real Relationships
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the Product Agility Podcast, host Ben Maynard challenges one of the most pervasive and damaging habits in product organisations: treating roadmaps like contracts. Ben explores why our obsession with polished timelines and rigid plans can undermine trust, limit...
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Scaling Without Chaos: Creating Product-Tech Harmony
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the Product Agility Podcast, host Ben Maynard tackles one of the most misunderstood and overlooked challenges in scaling product organisations: the persistent misalignment between product and technology teams. Ben explores how chaos at scale is often a design...
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Helping People Grow Beyond Their Job Titles
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the Product Agility Podcast, host Ben Maynard shares a practical approach to helping people grow beyond their job titles—an approach that improves collaboration, accelerates delivery, and supports meaningful development without adding unnecessary bureaucracy.…
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How to Predict Success Before It’s Too Late – The Power of Leading Metrics
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the Product Agility Podcast, host Ben Maynard explores the role of leading and lagging metrics in product strategy, OKRs, and business impact. Many teams rely on lagging metrics to measure success, but when the results are in, it’s often too late to make...
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Beyond User Stories: How Jobs to Be Done Unlocks Real Customer Value (with Jim Kalbach)
Send us Fan Mail In this week’s episode of the Product Agility Podcast, Ben is joined by Jim Kalbach, an expert in design, innovation, and the Jobs to Be Done (JTBD) framework. Together, they tackle one of the biggest blind spots in product development—our over-reliance on user stories and how...
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Stop Worshipping Canvases & Start Thinking for Yourself
Send us Fan Mail In this week’s Product Agility Podcast, host Ben Maynard takes the mic solo once again, tackling an issue that has taken over the world of Agile and Product Management: our over-reliance on templates and canvases. From Vision Canvases to Lean Product Discovery Templates, we’ve…
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The Biggest Mistake In Marrying Product and Agile
Send us Fan Mail 🔗 Master Lean Product Discovery – Sheev Workshops: https://sheev.co.uk/training/leanux/ In this week’s Product Agility Podcast, host Ben Maynard takes the mic solo once again to tackle one of the biggest and most persistent failures in product and agile transformations: the...
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Developers Should NEVER Talk to Customers or Users…
Send us Fan Mail In this week’s Product Agility Podcast, host Ben Maynard takes the mic solo to tackle one of the most controversial (and misunderstood) statements in product development: "Developers should NEVER talk to customers or users…"😲 But wait—should they? Or is this just another myth...
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Lean UX Is DEAD! (with Jeff Gothelf)
Send us Fan Mail In this week’s Product Agility Podcast, we’re joined by Jeff Gothelf, author, speaker, and product discovery expert, to explore the evolution of Lean UX and why it’s no longer just about UX. Jeff shares how the Lean Product Canvas has shifted the way teams collaborate, align on...
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The 7 Key Traits of High-Performing Teams (with Lucy Widdowson & Paul Barbour)
Send us Fan Mail In this week’s Product Agility Podcast, we explore the true foundations of high-performing teams with Lucy Widdowson and Paul Barbour, executive team coaches, authors, and lead tutors at Henley Business School. With decades of experience coaching leadership teams, Lucy and Paul...
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Forget Beautiful – Here's Why Effective Design Wins (with Ashley Nicodemus)
Send us Fan Mail In this week’s Product Agility Podcast, we explore the power of effective design with Ashley Nicodemus, a seasoned product designer and Senior Director of Design at UE Group. Ashley shares her deep expertise in mission-critical design and explains why beauty is great—but...
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OKRs vs. Strategy: Are You Focusing on the Wrong Thing? (with Sebastien Prioris)
Send us Fan Mail In this week’s Product Agility Podcast, we explore the critical link between strategy and OKRs with Sebastien Prioris, a seasoned product leader and founder of Stratify. Seb shares why so many organisations struggle to make OKRs work—and how a clear, actionable strategy can…
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Winning with Feedback: Building Products People Love (with Ivett Ördög)
Send us Fan Mail In this first episode of 2025, the Product Agility Podcast is back with a bang! Ben Maynard welcomes Ivett Ördög, a seasoned engineer, product leader, and creator of the innovative Lean Poker workshop, to explore the transformative power of feedback in building products that…
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Christmas Message 2024
Send us Fan Mail In this special Christmas episode of the Product Agility Podcast, host Ben Maynard reflects on the past year and shares a message of gratitude and optimism. From challenges to triumphs, this year has been one of growth, connection, and inspiring conversations with amazing guests...
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Why You're Presentations Aren't Creating Stakeholder Buy-In and How to Fix It (with Abdo Wahba)
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the Product Agility Podcast, Ben Maynard welcomes Abdo Wahba, presentation coach and product expert, to explore why so many presentations fail to create stakeholder buy-in—and more importantly, how to fix them. Drawing from over 1,300 hours of coaching...
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Why Early Testing Beats Fancy Metrics Every Time, a CTO’s Guide to Building Products People Love (with Tamas Kokeny)
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the Product Agility Podcast, Ben welcomes Tamas Kokeny, CTO of Bobcats Coding, to explore the often-overlooked yet critical intersection of technology and product agility. Tamas brings his extensive technical expertise to discuss how to prioritise early testing...
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From Fluffy Mission Statements to Actionable Strategies: Lessons from Unblock (with Jurriaan Kamer)
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the Product Agility Podcast, Ben speaks with Jurriaan Kamer, thought leader, consultant, and co-author of Unblock: How to Create Focused and Adaptable Organizations. Jurriaan shares insights from his experience helping organisations overcome bureaucracy…
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Building Influence through Clear Communication (With Evgeniy Kharam)
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the Product Agility Podcast, Ben sits down with Evgeniy Kharam, author and communication expert, to discuss the underrated art of clear communication and its role in building influence. Drawing on his experience in technical sales and cybersecurity, Evgeniy...
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Avoiding OKR Overload: How to Focus on What Really Matters (With Richard Russell)
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the Product Agility Podcast, Ben sits down with OKR and strategy expert Richard Russell to tackle a challenge many scale-ups face: OKR overload. Richard, with years of experience at Amazon and Google, shares insights on creating effective objectives without...
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Radically Rethinking OKRs with Radhika Dutt - Productized 24
Send us Fan Mail We wrap up our coverage of Productized 2024 with an engaging conversation with the renowned Radhika Dutt. As a returning guest and a fan-favorite, Radhika brings her unique insights into the challenges product teams face when using OKRs and shares her radical rethinking on this...
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Shifting Mindsets: Embracing Product Thinking with Esra Yetis - Productized 24 TalkInTen
Send us Fan Mail We’re excited to bring you more exclusive content from Productized 2024, our third conference of the year! This series continues our TalkInTen format, where we deliver concise, impactful conversations with industry leaders driving innovation in product and business agility. Each...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Less Method. More Meaning.
The world of Product Discovery and Creation is becoming increasingly challenging due to mistakes and missed opportunities that are prevalent in agile teams, large-scale Scrum and all other agile frameworks. History has shown that when organisations try and scale their product development to more than one cross-functional team, mistakes are made that cut short many chances of getting all possible benefits.
The route of this for many is the need for more attention paid to the incredible advancements in Product Management driven by hordes of professional Product People who prove that making their customers happier is not a pipe dream but a hard and fast reality.
This podcast exists to explore all topics related to Product and Agility and Coaching.
How do you marry the agile principles with Product discovery?
Is it really possible to have hundreds of cross-
HOSTED BY
Ben Maynard
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