Publications
What we think out loud.
Articles, videos and talks from the Value Rebels on product, tech and building organizations that ship.
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Value Engine -How to empower teams to create business value fast
Many leaders and Product Managers are tired of the lack of value being delivered by their teams. The Value Engine brings a solution on how to deal with those challenges.
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Digital Leaders Cruise 2026
On February 5, 2026, selected C-level executives and digital leaders came together for the Digital Leaders Cruise...
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Optimising Decision Making with the Opportunity Solution Tree at Value Rebels
How we use the Opportunity Solution Tree framework to make better product decisions and align our teams.
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Is Your Organization Fit Enough to Build Great Digital Products?
What makes an organization truly fit for building great digital products? We explore the key ingredients.
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Using Elon Musk's algorithm for product management
This article delves into the unique methodology developed by Elon Musk and his companies. It challenges conventional norms and encourages a radical rethinking of business processes.
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Stakeholder Management - Stop the war and start a symbiosis
Sometimes stakeholder management feels like an endless power play driven by personal opinions. Let me give you some good advice: Be the wind of change!
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Pack light, move fast; a backpacking story on how to manage your backlog
Valuable lessons learned from backpacking on why you should treat your backlog like a backpack.
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Falsification Mindset
Experiments are important to find out fast what works and what doesn't. Unfortunatly in reality teams are very often only verifying a decision that is already made and call it experiment.
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Differences between Product Marketing Management (PMMs) and Product Management (PMs)
Product Managers and Product Marketing Managers play important roles in the development and launch of a product, but their responsibilities and focus areas differ.
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The Paradox of "Too Much Product Management"
Product Management needs a change, one where we prioritize attentiveness and listening until the end, instead of shoving knowledge down people's throats.
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The Power of Cross-Functional Teams
How is your team staffed? Do you have all skills on board to create value independently? Or do you have a lot of dependencies to other teams and need to stand in line and ask for priority all the time?
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11 tips to drive better meetings
What about not only canceling meetings but making them better? What if companies have a guideline for every meeting that is created?
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5 steps for a great retrospective
A continuous improvement mindset is one of the core principles of any Agile environment. Retrospectives are one of the best ways of bringing this mindset to life.
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My Discovery techniques toolkit
Product Discovery is mainly used to learn about a potential problem, a market, and/or customers. In this article, my goal is to share the techniques that I used in a concise and informative way.
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8 tips for a better Sprint Planning
Sprint Planning is one of the most important aspects of Agile. If repeatedly done well by the team, it can create strong alignment and engagement to deliver amazing solutions.
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Finding Product Market Fit
Product Market Fit happens when the product is validated by the market. This means that customers are buying it according to the company's expectations and there is organic growth happening.
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Building a trust-based environment
Burning out, hating your jobs, losing creativity and motivation. Let's focus on how to go from an environment where there is a lack of trust to a trust-based one.
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5 communication strategies
As a leader do you understand the impact of how decisions are taken in your organization? Do you think of which decisions should you involve your employees?
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5 tips to organize your team backlog
Are you proud of your team's backlog of 100s tickets? Better rethink your approach!
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Never Ignore the Importance of Teams Setup
How companies staff their product teams define how easy creating value is. The speed product teams can create value determines whether companies will prosper or remain stuck.
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Bullshit Management
Are you doing Product Management or Bullshit Management? So many companies hire product professionals and place them in powerless positions where they cannot change a thing. Such a waste. We take a closer look at how you can identify if you are doing bullshit management and how you can avoid falling into this trap.
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Agile Estimations -Which one to pick?
Did you ever question why estimations are taking so long? Or why we are not being able to even reach 50% of what was planned?
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Feature Minimalists
Once a feature is released, do you review whether it produces value? Maybe it even distracts your user after a while? Whats your habit to find out? In this video we talk about the concept of being a feature minimalist and how you can learn to be one yourself :-)
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What does it mean to deliver the right customer value?
A guideline on how to support Product Teams to deliver the right customer value through 5 focus areas.
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10x your product outcome with the value engine by Sandra Hinz
Are you also struggling to create a real impact with your product teams? Features are prioritized top-down, and you fail to generate measurable value. When you were only 3 teams, it was still easy to coordinate, but since you are more than 5 teams you lost the overview. We all want to ensure we're working on the right thing and generating outcomes quickly. It's difficult, but not impossible. This talk is about the Value Engine, a product management framework that helps you to organize the discovery & delivery of your product teams to create a permanent culture of experimentation and achieve 10x more outcomes with 10x less effort. Digital Product Day is an event by Product Masterclass
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Falsification Mindset: Reducing the Number of Useless Solutions Built
Stop verifying. Start falsifying to build rock-solid solutions. Avoiding biases is one of the most complex parts of building products.
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Less Is More! Five Golden Rules for Feature Minimalists
Increasing your features doesn't mean creating more value. Let me explain why more features can damage the product instead of creating value.
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Better understanding of Product Leadership
As a Product Leader, are you creating followers or more leaders around you? Are you telling your Product Managers what they should do, or are you giving them support and guidance?
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Empowered Product Teams
Empowering product teams is one of the most complex challenges for tech companies. It is only through a mindset of continuous inspection and improvement that such a change is even possible.
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How to Solve 4 Customer Centricity Mistakes
Do you know what gets in the way of customer centricity? I aim to help you identify and avoid common mistakes and how to solve them.
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Agile Product Manifesto with David Pereira
Interview with David Pereira on the Agile Product Manifesto.
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Product Beats Show (hosted by Magnus Billgren) presenting the Value Engine
Did you hear that sound? It's the Value Engine. Rainer Collet and Sandra Hinz have been working on it for years. Together with dozens of teams in several companies they developed a product management framework that encourages an experimentation culture that delivers business value fast. We like the sound of that!
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Value Engine - Step 2: Selected
Are you a product managers or leader and also tired of endless prioritization discussion? If you want to know how a simple and effective portfolio prioritization can look like this video is for you. In the Value Engine we gather all prioritized ideas in the SELECTED column. The Value Engine is a super simple way to organize your product & tech teams at scale. At the Value Rebels we have implemented and organized many product organizations up to 40+ teams already with this.
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Value Engine - Step 1: Idea Collection
As product owner, product manager and leader we all know how challenging it is to collect and manage all ideas related to our product. This video explains the first step of the Value Engine process, which we call the IDEA collection. How cool would it be if all ideas get collected in one central place for all teams? We share our 5 TOP TIPS how you can set up a simple and scalable IDEA INTAKE PROCESS. The Value Engine is a super simple way to organize your product & tech teams at scale. At the Value Rebels we have implemented and organized many product organizations up to 40+ teams already with this.
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Value Engine - How to empower teams to create business value fast
What's this video about? This video goes out to all product managers, leaders and engineers who also face the challenges of a growing organization. Missing transparency, endless projects, too many dependencies and "management" telling what exactly to build rather than being able to experiment fast. The Value Engine is a super simple way to organize your product & tech teams at scale. At the Value Rebels we have implemented and organized many product organizations up to 40+ teams already with this. This video tells you exactly what it looks like.
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The Value Engine @ Product Management Nights Berlin
This video is an edited version of our talk at the Product Management Nights Berlin (1st Dec 2020). We presented our agile portfolio management framework that focuses not only on delivery but also on discovery. It enables an experimentation culture and gives teams a vast amount of freedom for self-organization. It connects tools like OKR and Scrum, basically filling the organizational gap between strategy and delivery. We call it the VALUE ENGINE.
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Pull x Push systems in Organizations
Are you usually choosing what you will work on or does top management dictates what to do? Are you being able to participate in hiring or the new colleagues are just joining and you have to 'deal' with it?