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John Cutler describes himself as a Product Development Nut. He\u2019s deeply focused on Product Development with a Lean /Agile approach and finding ways to improve how we work. He posts his thoughts in Medium, and although he says he is not a professional blogger, he generates new content about twice a week. I really enjoy reading his posts because they always challenge me and push me into seeing things through a different perspective. \n\nA few weeks ago John posted an article called \u201cFlow, Decoupling Cadences and Fixed Sprint Lengths\u201d (https://hackernoon.com/flow-decoupling-cadences-and-fixed-length-sprints-3eac1428ad73) in which he challenged the idea of Sprint time boxes. (There is a video version (https://vimeo.com/248376811) if you\u2019d rather watch that ). The article was thought provoking and left me with a number of questions. So I reached out to John and he was kind enough to let me pester him with my questions in a podcast.\n\n\nShow Notes\n00:08 Interview Begins\n00:50 Some background on John\n04:31 Lessons John learned as a touring musician that help him work with teams and build new products\n07:46 Intentionally disrupting your flow in order to grow and learn\n08:47 Introduction of the main topic - Flow, Decoupling Cadences and Fixed Length Sprints\n11:48 Understand they why behind the practices you are applying and figuring out how to make them work for you\n13:30 What job do we hire the Sprint for? If you don\u2019t know why you are using these time boxes, they may not be helping\n19:47 If you are failing Sprints, is it about the length of the Sprint or the size of the work? Get ridiculously uncomfortable.\n22:09 When you can\u2019t get through it, go slower and do less. Blazing away at tempo is not going to help anyone\n23:29 Why brand new teams should start by going slower and doing less\n25:17 Is it that Scrum doesn\u2019t work, or that people aren\u2019t doing it right?\n30:02 Be intentional and understand why you are employing practices, and then figure out how you\u2019ll know if they work\n32:27 What is your company hiring Agile to do?\n33:42 Know your audience\n38:00 Filling your Product Backlog with goals instead of features\n41:18 Visualizing dependencies in your backlog - WITH STRING!\n51:55 How to reach John\n52:36 John\u2019s upcoming events and deliverables\n54:31 John\u2019s writing process\n55:40 Podcast Ends\n\nLinks from the Podcast\nJohn's post \u201cFlow, Decoupling Cadences and Fixed Sprint Lengths\u201d\xa0http://bit.ly/2mNekgR\nLeanAgile US (February 26-28) http://leanagileus.com\nFlowState (application) http://hailoverman.com/flowstate\n\nContacting John\nTwitter https://twitter.com/johncutlefish\nMedium http://bit.ly/2rkYkrL