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Petra Wille is an independent product management consultant and product discovery coach. She loves to help her customers build products and teams from scratch. Alongside her freelance work, Petra co-organizes and curates MTP Engage Hamburg and is always waiting for some windy days: she's a huge kite-surfing enthusiast.

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Bashing agile is in vogue at the moment, so when veteran product manager and product design evangelist <a href="https://jpattonassociates.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jeff Patton</a> suggested it as a topic for his keynote talk at MTP Engage I jumped at it.
If the audience was expecting a speech which shot down agile methodologies, they were wrong. Instead Jeff started to deconstruct agile from a product manager’s view. He explained how “broken” agile felt to him in the days when he was in a product role and what helped him to fix it. But he also made very clear that so far agile is the best thing we’ve got to get work done.
<blockquote>We got waterfall and we all complained about 
it and now we all complain about agile. I’ve started to think the problem is us!<cite>Jeff Patton</cite></blockquote>
He talked about the misunderstood term “customer” in the agile manifesto, and  talked about the customer/vendor anti-pattern, the valuable/usable/feasible part of the product manager’s job, and that all of us should focus beyond the next KPI to hit. We should really care about the results we are generating for our companies and customers.
All of this might be seen as basic these days. But it’s not!
What came to mind while listening to Jeff quote Marty Cagan and other product management and agile heavyweights is that it’s their thought leadership that helps us to get our work done. And bashing existing concepts like agile without having better and proven alternatives at hand is of no benefit to any of us.
Watch the video &#8211; and remember that we are standing on the shoulders of giants and see how Jeff draws most of his slides live. How cool is that?!

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Better value sooner, safer, and happier by Jonathan Smart

Building Successful Product Development Teams, by Simon Colmer

How to be a Successful Product Owner, by Ninon Laforce

Out of the Fog by Holly Donohue

How Design Thinking, Lean, and Agile Work Together by Jonny Schneider

Lean, Agile, & Design Thinking by Jeff Gothelf

Tales of two Continuous Loops by Tim Beattie

Agile With a Capital A Might not be Best by Morag McLaren

How to Apply Lateral Leadership in Agile Environments by Tim Herbig

Owning Agile by Jeff Patton

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