Stop Managing Chaos. Start Shipping. Most PMs just track tasks. I build the playbooks that bridge C-Suite strategy with tech execution. The Fluent PM Playbook is where I give you those exact plays. For free.
Your strategy is a $100k distraction
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You just left a strategy meeting. You used words like synergy, disruption and pivot. So what's the problem? Your execution team just heard: "Go waste 5 days figuring out what the boss meant." The space between the boardroom and the backlog is where the budget bleeds. Fluent PM Playbook #24: The Buzzword -> Blueprint Fix As a TEFL-certified communication expert, I don’t let strategy stay abstract. I force it into the Buzzword -> Blueprint formula. A buzzword is a vague wish. A blueprint is an instruction set. I make every high-level strategic phrase translate into one of two things:
Example: Achieve better synergy = Reduce average inter-team handoff time from 48 hours to 12 hours.
Example: Disrupt the market = Launch the 90-day free trial on the homepage by EOD Friday. I am the translator who turns a high-level vision into a low-level task. If the strategy can’t be written as a clear instruction…it’s not a strategy. It’s a distraction. Stop asking: “Does the team understand the vision?” Start asking: “What is the first and single most important action the team must take to execute this vision?” Clarity is the difference between a great meeting and a profitable quarter. You're burning money on "wasted work." You feel the friction, but you can't measure the cost. Stop guessing. I built a 60-second calculator to find the real number.
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Justin K. Peterson, MBA, PSM
Stop Managing Chaos. Start Shipping. Most PMs just track tasks. I build the playbooks that bridge C-Suite strategy with tech execution. The Fluent PM Playbook is where I give you those exact plays. For free.
You just discovered a critical bug in production. You ask your team: "Whose fault is this?" Three people point at the codebase and each other. You are not failing because of bad code -> You are failing because of shared accountability. Fluent PM Playbook #27: The Single-Point Accountability (SPA) Fix In execution, shared responsibility means zero responsibility. It’s a management structure designed for excuses. As a Professional Scrum Master (PSM), my job is to create accountability....
You have a $5 Million idea. Your tech team tells you it will take 9 months and cost $750k to find out if it even works. So you kill the idea. You choose inaction over innovation. You are not failing at innovation...you are failing at risk management. Fluent PM Playbook #26: The 7-Day Profit Test Fix As an MBA and a PSM, my job is to de-risk your big ideas. We don’t build the $750k feature to test a theory. We build a $10k experiment to validate the profit. My playbook: The 7-Day Profit Test....
The biggest threat to your team's speed isn't a bug. And it isn't technical debt. It's the Good Idea Fairy. And usually, that fairy is you! You walk in on a Wednesday and say, "Hey, can we just make this one quick tweak? It will only take an hour." You think you added 1 hour of work. You actually took away 2 days of velocity. Fluent PM Playbook #23: The Sprint Lock Fix As a Professional Scrum Master (PSM), I enforce the Sprint Lock. When we commit to a 2-week sprint...the scope is locked....