Product Agility
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-functional teams (or Product Teams) all working from an effectively prioritised single Product Backlog and a dedicated Product Owner?
How can you embrace continuous improvement and empirical process control for your product, people and processes?
Ever wondered how to overcome the problems people face when trying to scale the Product Owner role and how it relates to Product Management and Product Teams?
Baffled by how to define a product in such a way that enables Feature Teams (aka Product Teams) and why doing wrong means you will only ever be stuck with technical teams?
Scrum Teams are not compatible with modern product management techniques.
Want to know what Product Focus means and how the right focus makes creating a shippable product less painful?
Need to get your head around how to blend modern product management techniques with Sprint Planning and Sprint Reviews to achieve Product Increments that cover the entire product?
This podcast's original focus was on Scaling Scrum vs Single-Team Scrum and how organisations can reap the benefits of Scrum when working on a larger product but still keeping a single product backlog. We found many Product People liked what we said, and then the penny dropped. This isn't a podcast about scaling Scrum or the limitations of single-team Scrum.
This podcast is for Product People & agile advocates who coach or get their hands dirty with Product creation.
We promise there is no Taboo topic that we will not explore on your behalf.
We aim to transcend the conversations about a single team, Daily Scrums, Scrum Masters and the double-diamond and bring everyone together into responsible teams dedicated to working on the entire product to make their customers happier and their lives more fulfilling.
Come and join us on our improvement towards perfection, and give us your feedback (we have a strong customer focus, too), and who knows, perhaps we will discover the magic wand that we can wave over all the broken agile and sudo-products to create a more resilient and adaptable future by bringing the worlds of Product, Agility and coaching together.
This podcast has the conversations and insights you need.
Product Agility
Bruce McCarthy: Connecting the Dots: Product Leadership & Managing Uncertainty - Productized 2025 TalkInTen
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 Productized in Lisbon, it's an exceptional event for learning, connecting and rethinking how product leaders shape outcomes.
This short episode features a live conversation about the strategic role of product leadership, how CPOs should connect functions across the company, and practical steps to manage uncertainty and align stakeholders.
Key topics discussed
- Why the CPO is the organisation's connector and strategic coach
- How to translate vision into coherent strategy and staged bets
- Practical tactics to align product, sales, marketing and engineering
- Using tailored tools to improve internal communication and stakeholder prep
- Lessons learned from product failure and the importance of early, frequent communication
Chapters
[00:00:02] - Welcome from Lisbon: Quick intro to the Productized series and why we're here: Live, short conversations from the conference.
[00:01:03] - Co-hosted firsts: What it means to run a co-hosted Talking 10 and set the tone for candid chats.
[00:01:37] - CPO as connector: Why the Chief Product Officer must connect functions, strategy and customer outcomes.
[00:07:53] - AI & internal comms: Practical ways to prepare stakeholder conversations and tailor messaging for impact.
[00:09:41] - Scary lessons and recovery: Real stories of product failure, alignment mistakes, and how to communicate earlier.
Guest bios:
Bruce McCarthy — Product leader, speaker and workshop facilitator focused on product leadership, strategy and cross-functional alignment. Bruce helps executives turn vision into staged strategic bets and coaches product teams to lead across organisations.
Tamash — Co-founder of Bobcats Coding, a Lisbon and Budapest-based digital product studio that specialises in AI engineering and end-to-end product development. Bobcats builds practical tools and publishes educational guides to help product teams adopt new tech responsibly.
Thanks to our sponsor: Bobcats Coding
Host Bio
Ben is a seasoned expert in product agility coaching, unleashing the potential of people and products. With over a decade of experience, his focus now is product-led growth & agility in organisations of all sizes.
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