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 team is building a Ferrari (and you're paying for it)
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Your team is building a Ferrari. Fluent PM Playbook #22: The Cool Features Fix As an MBA and a PSM, I am ruthless about one thing: Minimum Viable Product. “Viable” doesn’t mean “buggy.” It means: it solves the one business problem we’re being paid to solve. My playbook is simple…I force the team to separate the Need-to-Have from the Nice-to-Have.
We ship the one feature that solves the $XM problem in one sprint. We add the “nice” stuff after we’ve saved the $XM. Stop letting your team chase perfection. Start forcing them to chase profit. The goal isn’t to ship the best product. The goal is to ship the most profitable product faster than your competition. 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....
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...