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Stop treating your backlog like a promise

May 19, 2026

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2 min read

Stop treating your backlog like a promise

A backlog item is a hypothesis, not a commitment. Treat it like one and you'll stop building things nobody needs.

Tom Pinder
Tom Pinder

prioritization

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The stakeholder request that aged like milk

May 5, 2026

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2 min read

The stakeholder request that aged like milk

The VP who demanded that integration left two months ago. The ticket is still marked urgent.

Tom Pinder
Tom Pinder

decisions

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Your competitor research is already outdated

Apr 28, 2026

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2 min read

Your competitor research is already outdated

That competitive analysis from Q1? Three of those features have shipped. Two pivoted. One company got acquired.

Tom Pinder
Tom Pinder

workflow

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The handoff is where ideas go to die

Apr 21, 2026

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2 min read

The handoff is where ideas go to die

Product writes a spec. Engineering reads a different spec. Nobody notices until the PR is open.

Tom Pinder
Tom Pinder

decisions

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What a decision audit looks like

Apr 14, 2026

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2 min read

What a decision audit looks like

You track bugs and velocity. You don't track how fast your team makes decisions. That's the metric that matters.

Tom Pinder
Tom Pinder

decisions

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The 90-day rule

Apr 7, 2026

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2 min read

The 90-day rule

If nobody touched it in 90 days, it's dead. You're just too polite to say so.

Tom Pinder
Tom Pinder

decisions

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Why your roadmap is a fiction

Mar 24, 2026

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2 min read

Why your roadmap is a fiction

Roadmaps are snapshots pretending to be plans. By the time you present one, half of it is already wrong.

Tom Pinder
Tom Pinder

feedback

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Feedback is rotting in your inbox

Mar 23, 2026

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3 min read

Feedback is rotting in your inbox

Your customers are telling you what they need. You're just not listening fast enough.

Tom Pinder
Tom Pinder

prioritization

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The feature nobody asked for (anymore)

Mar 23, 2026

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3 min read

The feature nobody asked for (anymore)

You shipped it. Nobody noticed.

Tom Pinder
Tom Pinder

workflow

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The meeting that satisfies nobody

Mar 23, 2026

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2 min read

The meeting that satisfies nobody

Your calendar is full. Your decisions aren't.

Tom Pinder
Tom Pinder

prioritization

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Your backlog is a graveyard

Mar 23, 2026

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2 min read

Your backlog is a graveyard

Decision decay is costing your team more than you think

Tom Pinder
Tom Pinder

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AEO research and operator playbooks. From Prapi.

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