The Advanced Product Backlog Management Course v2 with AI: July 15, 2025

TL; DR: The Advanced Product Backlog Management Course v2 w/ AI — Out on July 15, 2025

The Advanced Product Backlog Management Course with AI is available on July 15th, 2025, at $99 with free lifetime access to all updates. It cuts through AI hype to address real product management challenges.

Instead of treating AI as a silver bullet, it examines how Generative AI and LLMs genuinely improve Product Backlog management versus when they’re expensive distractions. It uses the practical HealthXYZ startup scenario to distinguish value-adding AI applications from organizational theater, perfect for teams ready to confront uncomfortable truths about their current backlog dysfunction.

🎓 Join the Launch of the AI-Enhanced Version 2 on July 15: Master AI-augmented Product Leadership and Unlock Capabilities Most Practitioners Don’t Even Know Are Possible Yet!

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The Alignment-to-Value Pipeline: Building Products That Matter

TL;DR: The Alignment-to-Value Pipeline

Effective product development requires both strategic alignment and healthy Product Backlog management. Misalignment leads to backlog bloat, trust erosion, and building the wrong products. By implementing proper alignment tools, separating discovery from delivery, and maintaining appropriate backlog size (3-6 sprints), teams can build products that truly matter. Success depends on trust, collaboration, risk navigation, and focusing on outcomes over outputs. Learn more about how to embrace the alignment-to-value pipeline and create your product operating model.

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Stop Shipping Waste: How to Align Teams and Finally Fix Your Product Backlog

TL;DR: Stop Shipping Waste

When product teams fail to establish stakeholder alignment and implement rigorous Product Backlog management, they get caught in an endless cycle of competing priorities, reactive delivery, and shipping waste.

The result? Wasted resources, frustrated teams, and missed business opportunities. Success in 2025 requires turning your Product Backlog from a chaotic wish list into a strategic tool that connects vision to value delivery. Learn how to do so.

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Forensic Product Backlog Analysis — A New Team Exercise

TL; DR: Forensic Product Backlog Analysis Exercise

The Forensic Product Backlog Analysis: A 60-minute team exercise to fix your Backlog. Identify what’s broken, find out why, and agree on practical fixes—all in five quick steps. There is no fluff, just results.

Want technical excellence and solve customer problems? Start with a solid Product Backlog.

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From Backlog Manager to Product Manager w/ David Pereira — Hands-on Agile #62

TL; DR: Hands-on Agile #62: From Backlog Manager to Product Manager w/ David Pereira

What does product success mean? In this energizing Hands-on Agile Meetup, David Pereira talked about the challenges of being a product manager and how to move from managing the Product Backlog to driving value. You can expect provoking thoughts, actionable insights, and a bit of unconventional product management.

📺 Watch the video now: From Backlog Manager to Product Manager w/ David Pereira — Hands-on Agile #62.

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Product Discovery for Scrum Teams — Scrum Tools, Part 2

TL; DR: Product Discovery for Scrum Teams

While Scrum excels at building and releasing Increments, it does not guarantee that those are valuable—garbage in, garbage out. Scrum teams can equally make things no one is interested in using at all. The critical artifact to create value is the Product Backlog, “an emergent, ordered list of what is needed to improve the product.” (Source.) However, Scrum does not elaborate on how the Product Owner identifies Product Backlog-worthy work items. That would be the job of the process that feeds into the Product Backlog: product discovery.

Learn more about which frameworks have proven useful to augment Scrum with product discovery practices.

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