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Stefan Wolpers
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I help you excel at being agile.

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Food for Agile Thought #481: Reimagining Agile, AI Brain Fog, How to Become an AI PM, Successful Product Orgs:

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February 21, 2025 at 1:01 PM
If you weren’t at the virtual Hands-on Agile 2025 conference earlier this month, you missed an incredible opportunity to explore the shift from concept-based to context-based agility with nearly 800 fellow agilists: age-of-product.com/hands-on-agi...
Hands-on Agile 2025: The Slides — Age-of-Product.com
Hands-on Agile 2025: Embracing the Shift to Context-Based Agility — The Slides from the Live Stream Speakers: Age-of-Product.com.
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February 16, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Food for Agile Thought #480: AI and Jobs, Adopting the Product Model, Product Meets Revenue, Future of Agility:

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February 14, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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: age-of-product.com/psychologica...
Psychological Safety — Age-of-Product.com
Psychological Safety: The foundation of agile teams that innovate, adapt, and deliver, creating value — Age-of-Product.com.
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February 10, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Food for Agile Thought #479: Deep Research, Deleting Your Backlog, Product OS Competencies, Is Change Management Dead?:

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February 8, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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.)

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Great Agile Reset — Age-of-Product.com
The Great Agile Reset: Moving Beyond Frameworks in the Age of the AI-induced Paradigm Shift — Age-of-Product.com
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February 3, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Food for Agile Thought #478: DeepSeek, Product Model OS, AI Prototyping, Agile = Delivery?

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January 31, 2025 at 8:40 AM
"DeepSeek FAQ" stratechery.com/2025/deepsee... @benthompson (via @stratechery)
DeepSeek FAQ
DeepSeek has completely upended people’s expectations for AI and competition with China. What is it, and why does it matter?
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January 30, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Food for Agile Thought #477: AI Playbook for Product Managers, Real Psychological Safety, Systemic Product Strategy, Capacity Allocation:

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January 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Escape the Feature Frenzy, Build to Sell with Sandrine Olivencia – Hands-on Agile 66:

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Escape the Feature Frenzy, Build to Sell with Sandrine Olivencia – Hands-on Agile 66
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January 21, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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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January 17, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Food for Agile Thought #475: Natural Agility, Fake Product Transformations, AI Product Management, Fail a Lot!

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January 10, 2025 at 8:53 AM
🎓 🇬🇧 🖥 Are you facing challenges in aligning vision, stakeholders, and your team and delivering real value?

Jan 27, 2025, at $99: "Advanced Product Backlog Management Course" berlin-product-people-gmbh.kit.com/01996ada5f
January 9, 2025 at 5:30 AM
You gotta love #Grok2 — @elonmusk as a #ScrumMaster — excellent!
December 25, 2024 at 11:16 AM
Happy Holidays!
December 23, 2024 at 6:14 PM
Can you rely on pure Scrum to transform your organization and deliver value? Not always. While Scrum excels in simplicity and flexibility, applying it “out of the box” often falls short in corporate contexts: berlin-product-people.com/pure-scrum/
Can Pure Scrum Actually Work? – Berlin Product People GmbH
Learn about conditions under which pure Scrum thrives and the organizational DNA required to support it — Berlin-Product-People.com
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December 16, 2024 at 10:38 AM
" #FoodForAgileThought 473: What makes product teams effective? Agile Is Undead… A Synthesis; The Decline of Agile Change Programs; Lessons from descaling 25 Scrum teams" age-of-product.com/food-agile-t... w/ @agilealliance.bsky.social
December 13, 2024 at 6:00 PM
📺 "The Lean Tech Manifesto with Fabrice Bernhard — Hands-on Agile #65" youtu.be/dG0XRO8br9A #HoA
The Lean Tech Manifesto with Fabrice Bernhard — Hands-on Agile #65
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December 6, 2024 at 6:11 PM
"Product management is broken. Engineers can fix it" newsletter.posthog.com/p/product-ma... (via @teamposthog.bsky.social
Product management is broken. Engineers can fix it
How we've redefined the PM and engineer relationship
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December 5, 2024 at 5:07 AM
" #FoodForAgileThought 471: Elon Musk’s Engineering Principles – The 5-Step Process; Why your teams aren’t really empowered (and how to fix It); Data-Informed, NOT Data-Driven" age-of-product.com/food-agile-t...
December 3, 2024 at 3:56 PM
🖥 💯 🇩🇪 “Top Training, aus dem ich zahlreiche Impulse für meine Aufgabe als Product Owner mitnehmen konnte.”

Garantiert — 10. + 11. Dezember 2024:

"Professional Scrum #ProductOwner Schulung" buff.ly/3YOkKzm @scrumdotorg #PSPO
November 29, 2024 at 10:37 AM
"Output vs. Outcomes" mikefisher.substack.com/p/output-vs-... — Mike Fisher
Output vs. Outcomes - Problem #4
Focusing on What Really Matters
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November 28, 2024 at 4:01 PM
The Inverted MoSCoW Framework: Stop Building What You Do Not Need:

The inverted MoSCoW framework reverses traditional prioritization, focusing on what a product team won’t build rather than what it will: age-of-product.com/inverted-mos...
The Inverted MoSCoW Framework
The Inverted MoSCoW Framework: Stop Building What You Do Not Need and Focus on Creating Value — Age-of-Product.com
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November 25, 2024 at 8:38 AM