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TBM 358: The Genius of SVPG

https://cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-358-the-genius-of-svpg

Published: May 16, 2025 06:39

Between 60-80% of all large enterprises I speak to have brought in Marty Cagan and/or SVPG at one point in the last couple of years. That is an outstanding achievement for the SVPG mission. The positive impact is undeniable, even just based on my…

TBM 357: Perspectives on Change and Improvement

https://cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-357-perspectives-on-change-and

Published: May 10, 2025 21:43

I am continuously fascinated by how people think about problems and improvement in their companies. This fascination applies internally as well. I've noticed how my perspectives have changed over the years—sometimes without me noticing, and often with some…

TBM 356: Product Party Modes

https://cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-356-product-party-modes

Published: May 8, 2025 23:02

I’m constantly reminded of how product teams don’t function like widget factories. It’s so tempting to imagine your “capacity” as being a function of the number of developers on your team, and to rationalize “splitting” it like you’re dividing up a pie or…

TBM 355: Who Should Care?

https://cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-355-who-should-care

Published: May 1, 2025 00:04

Some % of product leaders and product managers could care less about how their company works.

TBM 354: The 4 Framework Jobs (And Why It Matters)

https://cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-354-the-4-framework-jobs-and

Published: April 27, 2025 22:39

But the real problem isn’t the number of frameworks, it’s that we’re often not clear about why we’re using them. Even when a team chooses a framework thoughtfully, people may still disagree about what they’re trying to accomplish. Are they trying to teach…

TBM 353: Conversation Quality and Scale

https://cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-353-conversation-quality-and

Published: April 23, 2025 21:20

You can often "just tell" how a team (or company) is doing by listening deeply to their conversations and observing how they interact. You can also boil an operating system down to how intentional people are about creating conditions where awesome…

TBM 352: Funding, Planning, and Context

https://cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-352-funding-planning-and-context

Published: April 20, 2025 07:53

This post is all about planning, funding, and context. My main thesis is as follows: In a lot of early-stage startups and companies experiencing rapid growth, there is basically only one context. Any variation is consumed by inertia and the “one thing”.…

TBM 351: The 4 Prioritization Jobs (And Why It Matters)

https://cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-351-the-4-prioritization-jobs

Published: April 15, 2025 00:01

After all these years, I finally put something into words about prioritization.

TBM 350: Connecting Dots

https://cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-350-connecting-dots

Published: April 11, 2025 08:44

As the title of my newsletter suggests, I'm obsessed with the mess of product development. Over the last couple of weeks, I've spent a lot of time with operations leaders trying to bring some order to that mess. They show me mad-scientist Miro boards,…

TBM 349: A "Product Transformation" North Star

https://cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-349-a-product-transformation

Published: April 7, 2025 01:40

What % of product teams in your company can operate fairly independently while having a clear line of impact from their day-to-day work to what matters for customers and the company?

TBM 348: Shared Understanding At Scale

https://cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-348-shared-understanding-at-scale

Published: March 30, 2025 10:08

Information overload, lossy models, telephone games, the lure of loops, pretty-but-mostly-worthless-cascades, and the quest for the one roadmap view to rule them all.