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Prateek is the  Head of Learning and Development at ProKanban.Org and as an  Independent Agile Consultant, over the past fifteen years  has been working to shape, improve and lead software development teams and products.

While his career started as a software developer, I eventually moved into multiple team lead roles where mentoring, identifying and removing impediments, ensuring sustainable project pace and ensuring that the team delivers high-quality products were my main responsibilities.

Prateek on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/singhpr13/

The talks in ten are back! This time around we are at brilliant Lean Agile London 2023.

https://leanagile.london/

Fourth in the day 2 queue was...

One of the Drunk Agilists, Prateek Singh!  Co-host of the Drunk Agile Podcast with Dan Vacanti  (a pioneer in using Flow Metrics, and his works have been instrumental in the shaping of my TameFlow Approach)

Prateek and Dan have an interesting approach to their podcast, they drink and they talk.

So are you may have guessed, their closing Keynote at Lean Agile London did not break with tradition!

But it is much more than this, they actually ran an incredibly useful game that I feel should be in the tool kit of any Product Agilist...


Drunk Agile on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC758reHaPAeEixmCjWIbsOA

Drunk Agile on Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/drunk-agile/id1550106773

Host Bio

Ben is a seasoned expert in product agility coaching, unleashing the potential of people and products. With over a decade of experience, his focus now is product-led growth & agility in organisations of all sizes.  

Stay up-to-date with us on our social media📱!

Ben Maynard

🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/benmaynard-sheev/

🐦 https://x.com/BenWMaynard

💻 https://sheev.co.uk/ 

Product Agility Podcast 

🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/company/productagilitypod/ 

💻 https://productagilitypod.co.uk/

🖇️ https://linktr.ee/productagility

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Dr. Klaus Leopold is computer scientist and Kanban pioneer with many years of experience in helping organizations from different industries on their improvement journey with Lean and Kanban. He is author of the bestseller “Rethinking Agile”, “Practical Kanban” (www.practicalkanban.com) and co-author of the book “Kanban Change Leadership”.

Klaus was awarded with the Brickell Key Award for “outstanding achievement and leadership” within the Lean Kanban community in San Francisco, 2014. His main interest is establishing lean business agility by improving organizations beyond the team level, especially in large environments from 50 to 5000 people. Klaus speaks regularly at renowned Lean and Kanban conferences worldwide. He publishes his current thoughts on his blog www.LEANability.com and you can follow him on Twitter at @klausleopold.

The talks in ten are back! This time around we are at brilliant Lean Agile London 2023.

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Third up on Day 2 we have...  Drum Roll Please

The one and only Klaus Leopold! Co-creator of Flight Levels and Keynote Speak from Lean Agile London 2023!

In Klaus's talk he shared insights and tips on how to align work against organisational and other strategic outcomes in a visual and engaging way.

Here is his talk blurb

Making Strategy Happen with Flight Levels

Do you feel like your company strategy lives only in PowerPoint presentations? In this talk, I will show how you can align your long-term company vision and goals with daily operational work using a Flight Level 3 system. I will also show how you can map your current strategy tools to SOFI – Flight Level’s strategy interface and how to effectively invest your budget in your strategic portfolio.

It doesn’t take that much to make strategy a reality. An effective Flight Level 3 system is a perfect start.

Host Bio

Ben is a seasoned expert in product agility coaching, unleashing the potential of people and products. With over a decade of experience, his focus now is product-led growth & agility in organisations of all sizes.  

Stay up-to-date with us on our social media📱!

Ben Maynard

🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/benmaynard-sheev/

🐦 https://x.com/BenWMaynard

💻 https://sheev.co.uk/ 

Product Agility Podcast 

🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/company/productagilitypod/ 

💻 https://productagilitypod.co.uk/

🖇️ https://linktr.ee/productagility

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The talks in ten are back! This time around we are at brilliant Lean Agile London 2023.

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For the 2nd episode of day 2 from the Lean Agile London 2023 conference, we hear about the only talk at the conference that nearly left me in tears...

Kubair Shirazee - Peace Through Prosperity https://www.drupal.org/peace-through-prosperity

Kudos to Jordi Falguera for thrusting my and Kubair together! I am so pleased he did, Kubair is an inspiration with a surprising message for all of us Product Agility, Product and Agile people out there.

Here is the talk blurb

Exploring Agile’s greater promise!

In addition to his work with commercial enterprises, Kubair also holds the position of Chief Product Owner at Peace Through Prosperity. This innovative lab has been engaged in a 10+ year experiment in cross pollinating Agile values, principles, and practices from the enterprise to society, to affect societal/planetary transformation.

During his interactive talk, Kubair will share his personal experience of implementing Agile principles, values, and practices in conflict-affected communities as part of the Peace Through Prosperity initiative, and share lessons learned in Social Transformation that he has brought back to the Enterprise and how this cross pollination has enabled Kubair and his teams to succeed in both the Enterprise realm and the Societal system all enterprises exist within.

Kubair's Bio

I am an Enterprise Agile Coach, with over 20+ years experience facilitating transformation of people, teams, businesses and communities — in other words, I facilitate people who have a vision for moving past the status quo and explore better ways of working together. Building and nurturing high performance teams has been described as my ‘superpower’.

I have taken multiple digital products to market, as well as optimised and scaled teams for my own startups and other organisations. 

Currently, I coach Agile coaches, Executives, Leaders and Teams, facilitating them improve product, service development and operations.

Outside of my professional pursuits, I volunteer in the international development sector, coaching non-technical teams to apply agile principles, values and practices, so that they design and deliver impactful products to secure livelihoods in marginalised communities.

My work experience spans pharmaceuticals, healthcare, public sector, telecoms, not-for-profits, retail, digital agencies, nascent start-ups, and urban informal settlements (slums).

Host Bio

Ben is a seasoned expert in product agility coaching, unleashing the potential of people and products. With over a decade of experience, his focus now is product-led growth & agility in organisations of all sizes.  

Stay up-to-date with us on our social media📱!

Ben Maynard

🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/benmaynard-sheev/

🐦 https://x.com/BenWMaynard

💻 https://sheev.co.uk/ 

Product Agility Podcast 

🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/company/productagilitypod/ 

💻 https://productagilitypod.co.uk/

🖇️ https://linktr.ee/productagility

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The talks in ten are back! This time around we are at brilliant Lean Agile London 2023.

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For the first episode of day 2 from Lean Agile London 2023 we have a legend from the agile world...

Gabrielle Benefield - Founder of Mobius Navigator - a decision-making navigator and outcome accelerator

Gabrielle told me about her innovative and definitely different closing keynote for Day 1 of Lean Agile London before we dived into a conversations on the problems with frameworks and learning.

Make sure you listen to the end to hear Gabrielle's brilliant final words.

The Amazing Mid-Conference Interactive Chaotic 45-Minute Stand Up-Agile Dynamic Quiz Show Happy Hour!

Pub quiz meets trivial pursuit

Join us for an exciting end-of-day session with a twist! The Amazing Interactive Chaotic 45-Minute Stand Up-Agile Dynamic Quiz Show Happy Hour is not your typical session. Our roving network of quizmasters will challenge you with questions and games that will test your knowledge of agile and your athletic ability (think geeks meet games). You’ll have a chance to network with fellow attendees, have a laugh, and have a blast while doing it.So, bring your A-game and let’s dive into this Amazing Mid-Conference Interactive Chaotic 45-Minute Stand Up-Agile Dynamic Quiz Show Happy Hour!

Gabrielle Bio

Gabrielle Benefield is an author, speaker and advisor specialising in Agile and Lean product strategy and innovation. She is the founder of Evolve Beyond, a global consultancy headquartered in London working with diverse industries including finance, telecommunications, energy and gaming. Gabrielle is the founder of Mobius Outcome Delivery (mobiusloop.com), a navigator to align strategy to delivery using measurable outcomes, and flexiblecontracts.com, a Lean Agile contract model. 

Previous to Evolve Beyond, Gabrielle was a successful executive in Silicon Valley, leading major Product, design, and technology divisions. She used Agile and Lean methods to take a startup to successful Initial Public Offering, then led one of the largest Agile enterprise transformations at Yahoo! scaling up to 250+ teams in the US, India, Europe, and Asia. Gabrielle founded the Scrum Foundation in 2009 with Jeff Sutherland (the inventor of Scrum) and other leading Agile thought leaders, to promote enterprise Agile practices within enterprise. 

Gabrielle is an author of the Scrum Primer, one of the most downloaded guides to Scrum, and is currently authoring a book on Agile and lean product strategy, one on flexible contracts, and a graphic novel about risk and value. 

Host Bio

Ben is a seasoned expert in product agility coaching, unleashing the potential of people and products. With over a decade of experience, his focus now is product-led growth & agility in organisations of all sizes.  

Stay up-to-date with us on our social media📱!

Ben Maynard

🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/benmaynard-sheev/

🐦 https://x.com/BenWMaynard

💻 https://sheev.co.uk/ 

Product Agility Podcast 

🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/company/productagilitypod/ 

💻 https://productagilitypod.co.uk/

🖇️ https://linktr.ee/productagility

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The talks in ten are back! This time around we are at brilliant Lean Agile London 2023.

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For the last episode of day 1 from Lean Agile London 2023 we have a man whose reputation preceeds him (in a good way)

Chris Stone - The Virtual Agile Coach

Chris and I have been meaning to record a longer episode for a while so when I saw hi come into the social area of the conference looking for a cup of coffee I took my opportunity and pounced!

What did you talk about?

Well his talk (below) and agile naturism. Sound odd. It was a bit.

Chris's talk synopsis from Agile London 2023

Tired of the same old retrospective format? Struggling to turn insights into actions? Having difficulties creating a safe, inclusive environment where people participate equally?

Join me for an interactive exploration of my top tips, strategies, and hacks for continuous improvement.

In this unique and engaging slideless session, you’ll participate in a “choose your own adventure” experience that will allow you to influence where we focus our time. No standard one way presentation here; this is your talk, focused on your challenges.

We could run this session 50 times together, and each would be different.

You’ll leave this session with practical tools and strategies that you can immediately implement with your teams to drive continuous improvement.

Who is Chris Stone?

As The Virtual Agile Coach, I'm on on a mission to help people to continuously improve each and every day and have fun while they do it. 

With over a decade of experience creating high performing teams across a range of industries, from smaller, lean enterprises to some of the worlds largest companies, I'm dedicated to creating environments where people can be their best selves on their best day and be supported on their worst. 

I'm the Managing Partner of Virtually Agile, a challenger consultancy, a regular on the conference circuit, podcaster, trainer, blogger and soon to be author, I always seek new ways to share my expertise and inspire others to think creatively about how they can continuously improve.

Host Bio

Ben is a seasoned expert in product agility coaching, unleashing the potential of people and products. With over a decade of experience, his focus now is product-led growth & agility in organisations of all sizes.  

Stay up-to-date with us on our social media📱!

Ben Maynard

🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/benmaynard-sheev/

🐦 https://x.com/BenWMaynard

💻 https://sheev.co.uk/ 

Product Agility Podcast 

🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/company/productagilitypod/ 

💻 https://productagilitypod.co.uk/

🖇️ https://linktr.ee/productagility

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 The talks in ten are back! This time around we are at brilliant Lean Agile London 2023.

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Third we have... Jordi Falguera the Opening Keynote from Lean Agile London 2023!

His talk was about breaking your mindset so that you can achieve what you need to achieve.
 
Tantalisingly he also mentioned a product he has created, norne out of the frustration of UpWork and Fiverr.

Speedy Time Agency a service that you can send a WhatsApp voice note too and get your Fiver-like tasks done for you, but with less stress and energy. Who wouldn't want that!

Of course I had to learn a little more about this, brilliantly he obliged!


Here is his talk blurb

Your mindset is a crucial factor in determining your success in life. To truly achieve extraordinary results, it’s essential to unleash your mindset and push beyond your limits in a real and pragmatic way.

In this talk, we will explore various topics such as the Mindset Redesign Framework (MRF), Bloom’s taxonomy, low vs high order thinking, and pattern recognition to help you develop the right mindset for success. We will also share practical strategies for reducing your cognitive load, including the Ignition time and ITEM (Individual Talent Exploration and Maximization), and discuss how coaching and mentorship can help you achieve your goals.

Through real-life and thought provoking examples you will gain valuable insights and learn how to apply these concepts to your personal and professional life. Join us for this engaging and insightful keynote and unlock the full potential of your mindset in a lean and agile way!

About Jordi Falguera

As a Business Agility Executive Coach and Strategic Advisor, for more than 10 years, I had the opportunity to participate and lead multiple international transformations from big companies in more than 14 countries and very diverse cultures.
These experiences allow me to support directors and executives to align and properly connect their corporate strategy with their execution, contributing to successfully adopting an Agile-Lean mindset in their companies.
I also participate as a speaker and keynote speaker in multiple conferences across Europe, Asia and America.

My biggest passion since the beginning is optimization. That's why I love sharing my knowledge with executives about:
- Learning techniques (effective learning)
- Strategies for better decision making
- Leaders and high performance managers
- Process efficiency and personal systems
- Achievement of objectives
Contributing to their personal success.

Host Bio

Ben is a seasoned expert in product agility coaching, unleashing the potential of people and products. With over a decade of experience, his focus now is product-led growth & agility in organisations of all sizes.  

Stay up-to-date with us on our social media📱!

Ben Maynard

🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/benmaynard-sheev/

🐦 https://x.com/BenWMaynard

💻 https://sheev.co.uk/ 

Product Agility Podcast 

🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/company/productagilitypod/ 

💻 https://productagilitypod.co.uk/

🖇️ https://linktr.ee/productagility

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 The talks in ten are back! This time around we are at brilliant Lean Agile London 2023.

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The second guest is Haroon Khalil,  his talk on FLOWmingos shared a fantastic metaphor for how to help an organisation, tech or product,  find out what matters to them and use lightweight metrics to help them get there more effectively


What do Flamingos have to do with flow metrics?

Are you curious about the minimum viable light-weight metrics that can help teams and organizations focus on? ︎ delivery of valuable bets

︎ managing the arrival and departure rates of their work︎ creating less overwhelm in the system of work and reduce burnout︎ Improving the time it takes to get things done︎ better visualise where your blockers exist and how to help systematically manage and resolve them in an effective way︎ Metaphors and dancing with Data and making meaningful insights to help us move to ‘better”: I’ll give you a clue, I’ll be sharing the metaphor of Flamigos.

Why join this talk?

WHAT?
Would you like to know more about why Flamingos can help us better understand the key concepts around Flow. Learn tips and tricks on how we can experiment and to invite people to improve the flow of value in our organizations.

SO WHAT?
With extensive experiments with over 500 global teams, Haroon will share a Flow navigation guide for how to get started and how to take your TransFLOWmation to the next level.

NOW WHAT?
We have flow charts that help us identify how we are flowing, now what do we do? How do we co-create the spaces to socialise flow with managers and leaders? 

Haroon Khalil - A Selection of his Best Bits

Lean-Agile Practitioner | Coaching | Mentoring | Flow | Enterprise Agility | Product Leadership | Visual Facilitator | C-Suite & Board Member Consultancy

⭐ Key Conferences & Talks ⭐

🏈 March 2022 - Speaker at Egypt's first ever Regional Scrum Gathering (RSG). Facilitated a session on 'Unearthing Agile Leaner-ship'. 

🌍 January 2022 - Panel member at the Global Agnostic Agile conference. The session focused on Leadership and Business Agility, hosted by Arie Van Bennekum (Agile Manifesto Co-author).

🏈 September 2021 - Speaker at Pakistan's first ever Regional Scrum Gathering (RSG), 'Agile in the face of uncertainty: Let My People Flow'.
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/haroon-k-4998a716/

Host Bio

Ben is a seasoned expert in product agility coaching, unleashing the potential of people and products. With over a decade of experience, his focus now is product-led growth & agility in organisations of all sizes.  

Stay up-to-date with us on our social media📱!

Ben Maynard

🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/benmaynard-sheev/

🐦 https://x.com/BenWMaynard

💻 https://sheev.co.uk/ 

Product Agility Podcast 

🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/company/productagilitypod/ 

💻 https://productagilitypod.co.uk/

🖇️ https://linktr.ee/productagility

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The talks in ten are back! This time around we are at brilliant Lean Agile London 2023.

https://leanagile.london/

First up we have Stuart Young, I dragged him outside on a rather chilly morning to learn more about his talk

Product Story Generation & The Product Disposition Canvas

Here is the synopsis of his talk at Lean Agile London

Grounded on your perspective of the product and your personal product stance it is useful to plot a path that will lead to product success.

During this talk I will introduce the Product Disposition Canvas, as a useful tool given any product situation.

We will navigate the terrain between strategy to tactics and visionary to execution, unlocking your ability to create stories that bring stakeholders and teams on a compelling journey.

If you are a product passionate individual keen to find powerful ways to engage, inspire, teach and learn whilst discovering your strengths and product blind spots, this is the talk for you.

Stuart's Bio

I’m a Certified Scrum Trainer and Visual Storyteller with a deep-rooted appreciation for methods of Design Thinking and Agile Ways of working. My key driver is to enable individuals, teams and organisations to tell impactful stories. As a result, people can make decisions faster, take action, reduce waste and drive value.
 
As a Visual Storytelling thought leader and practitioner within the Agile Community and beyond I endorse the use of Visual Storytelling to engage stakeholders, address customer needs, enhance team collaboration and accelerate learning.

Facilitating a suite of Design Thinking, Visual Storytelling and Product Agility workshops I encourage teams to work more visually, creating visually compelling stories that make the intangible tangible, catalysing customer centric creativity, driving product innovation and business success.

I joined Radtac-Cprime in 2015 where I continue to assist organisations with an array of Product Innovation and visualisation services.

Stu on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/stuart-young-2b683729/

Host Bio

Ben is a seasoned expert in product agility coaching, unleashing the potential of people and products. With over a decade of experience, his focus now is product-led growth & agility in organisations of all sizes.  

Stay up-to-date with us on our social media📱!

Ben Maynard

🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/benmaynard-sheev/

🐦 https://x.com/BenWMaynard

💻 https://sheev.co.uk/ 

Product Agility Podcast 

🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/company/productagilitypod/ 

💻 https://productagilitypod.co.uk/

🖇️ https://linktr.ee/productagility

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Think that remote learning is the same as real face to face learning (not over Zoom but so you can actually smell their breath).

Think again.

What is clear from getting to know Ali Ezzeddine is that in addition to a desire for knowledge in pursuit of helping people learn - he also deeply believes that physical proximity and real face-to-face interaction is crucial in education.

In this episode Ben and Ali dip into the critical role that emotions play in an educational setting - Learners are more likely to be engaged and motivated when they are happy.

Certificates? Bah! When are the actually valuable? What if you only got on if you had evidenced you can implement what you have learnt?

All this and we explore one of the most impactful training tools you probably are not using yet...

Chapters:

• 00:03:00 Why & How We Should Challenge Learners
• 00:06:56 What's the one question we can ask that will make people think?
• 00:07:47 Learning Should Provoke Curiosity
• 00:11:29 When Training is Piled High and Sold Cheap
•  00:11:50 What is a Knowledge Gap?
• Linking Practice And Failure To Enhance Learning And Reduce Fear.
• 00:14:10 What Would Ben Like to See Changed in Training From the Back of the Room?
• 00:17:24 Cultures That Hinder Curiosity
• 00:21:36 What are the "Vibes" from In-Person Training that you do not get in remote?
• 00:25:04 What's the Thing that Remote Work & Education Can Never Do?
• 00:28:39 Episode Recap and Some Big News!

Key Takeaways:
We need to grow as learners, rather than just obtaining a certificate.
Physical proximity is really important to learning and don't ignore finding ways to leverage a culture to enhance the learning experience.
Technology cannot replace face-to-face contact and physical proximity in training, these are key to creating an emotional and therefore recallable learning experience.

Guest Bio

Ali is a certified educational consultant and Training from the Back of the Room trainer in various educational fields. He is also trilingual in Arabic, French and English and is a lifelong learner.

Ali has spent years researching how we as humans learn and has spent just as long putting it into practice. A dedicated father and all-around lovely human being, Ali's wisdom and gentle demeanour make him easy to learn from.  

Host Bio

Ben is a seasoned expert in product agility coaching, unleashing the potential of people and products. With over a decade of experience, his focus now is product-led growth & agility in organisations of all sizes.  

Stay up-to-date with us on our social media📱!

Ben Maynard

🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/benmaynard-sheev/

🐦 https://x.com/BenWMaynard

💻 https://sheev.co.uk/ 

Product Agility Podcast 

🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/company/productagilitypod/ 

💻 https://productagilitypod.co.uk/

🖇️ https://linktr.ee/productagility

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When are you learning at your best?

When are you bored?

When you spend all of your time distracted?

Or is it the opposite of all these?

I guess it is the opposite.

In this episode, we go delve into what makes for effective learning environments as we are joined by Ali Ezzeddine, a teacher of teachers that believes that if the content is engaging and attractive, individuals will be motivated to learn.

So if you want people to remember things that you say to them, chances are something in this episode will help you with that.

We explore the crucial conundrum of in-person vs. remote learning, and Ali shares some brilliant book recommendations and choice snippets from them.

Ali also talks about the "Netflix generation" or "YouTube generation" who have more choices and distractions than previous generations and how this means we have to think differently if we want to engage people with what we say or the products we produce.
 

The Best Bits:
00:03:01 - Ali's Story
00:08:39 - How Ali Found Training From the Back of the Room
00:11:55 - Research Beyond Training From the Back of the Room?
00:13:59 - We are built to learn together (well, some of us)
00:14:58 - Learning is multisensory. Remote training just is not the same
00:19:27 - Learning, Distractions and the Netflix & Youtube Generation
00:22:43 - The Importance Of Learning How To Learn
00:27:56 - Episode Recap

Guest Bio

Ali is a certified educational consultant and Training from the Back of the Room trainer in various educational fields. He is also trilingual in Arabic, French and English and is a lifelong learner.

Ali has spent years researching how we as humans learn and has spent just as long putting it into practice. A dedicated father and all-around lovely human being, Ali's wisdom and gentle demeanour make him easy to learn from.  

Host Bio

Ben is a seasoned expert in product agility coaching, unleashing the potential of people and products. With over a decade of experience, his focus now is product-led growth & agility in organisations of all sizes.  

Stay up-to-date with us on our social media📱!

Ben Maynard

🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/benmaynard-sheev/

🐦 https://x.com/BenWMaynard

💻 https://sheev.co.uk/ 

Product Agility Podcast 

🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/company/productagilitypod/ 

💻 https://productagilitypod.co.uk/

🖇️ https://linktr.ee/productagility

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