Agentic Development
I stopped writing user stories
With agentic coding, user stories frustrate engineers. Replace them with an intent brief and steer by examining the working software.
Leading
What Six Berlin Scale-ups Changed When Product Teams Went Agentic
Notes from ProductLab Berlin: what GetYourGuide, Miro, Babbel, Contentsquare, Ablefy, and n8n changed in how their product teams work
Agentic Development
Agentic Coding Moves Your Bottleneck
Agentic coding makes development faster, sometimes dramatically. That doesn’t make the team faster. It moves the bottleneck, and the process has to change with it.
Agentic Development
Agentic Transformation Starts with the Real Workflow
Established companies can’t adopt AI like startups. Map how your teams really work, find the bottlenecks, then decide where agents can speed up delivery.
Focus
Rock Teams
Every organization has projects that they just don't seem to be able to make progress on because no one team or department is responsible. When they become critically urgent, a 'rock team' is a way to make significant progress inside a quarter.
Focus
Capacity Planning
With a large organization, you can't walk each PM through a quarter's prioritization tradeoffs. Use capacity planning to do this with many PMs at once.
Focus
The Planning Game
If I am working closely with an experienced team, this is one of the quickest and easiest ways to get a sense for how long it might take to build something new.
Strategy
Sober Evaluation
What happens when your strategy becomes disconnected from reality? Do you hold an urgent workshop? Or is there a better way?
Leading
Dueling Goals
There are always competing demands on PMs. We expect PMs to prioritize. It's their job. But many CPOs don't bother to discuss the prioritization algorithm with their PMs.
Leading
Pull Planning
When we assign work, the leader who made the plan is the one who owns the plan. Everyone else is just 'helping', but not responsible for the whole. How can we get better engagement?
Discovery
Jobs to be Done: Give Your Agents the Right Problem
Assumptions about feature value get upended once you understand the customer’s job. Agents need that same context to build the right thing.
Discovery
Get Out of the Building (Your Agents Can’t Do This for You)
Customer empathy has a half-life of 30 days. Agents can speed up delivery, but they can’t have the conversations that tell you what to build.