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Hands on: Building Your Product Roadmap

Hands on: Building Your Product Roadmap

As a product person with over two decades of experience, I’ve witnessed product roadmaps evolve from static plans to dynamic tools for alignment, prioritisation, and storytelling. I've also seen insanely detailed and unrealistic roadmaps with ludicrous stretch goals...

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Forging new Design Paths: Moving away from Set UX Frameworks

Forging new Design Paths: Moving away from Set UX Frameworks

I guess it had to happen in the design world at some point. Much in the same way that tech teams have moved away from hardcore Scrum, the one size fits all approach to development in the design world is also undergoing something of a renaissance. Frameworks are great...

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Storytelling – The Secret Weapon in Product Leadership

Storytelling – The Secret Weapon in Product Leadership

When I started out as a product designer many years ago I never imagined that one of the most wonderful aspects of the world of product management and leadership would be storytelling. It became apparent to me that the glue that helps teams work wonderfully together...

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The Feature Factory Trap

The Feature Factory Trap

A while ago a service designer told me about an incredible music app start-up she was working on. The app in question was well funded and had some of the smartest minds on the project. From kick off, the team set about building a raft of incredible features that wowed...

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Do You Design Sprint? Still a Thing in 2024?

Do You Design Sprint? Still a Thing in 2024?

It is amazing to think that Design Sprints were first introduced by Jake Knapp over 10 years ago! Once the buzzword in product teams as a surefire way to bring cross-functional teams together for successful ideation, I often get asked about the relevance of design...

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Self-Care for Product Leaders

Self-Care for Product Leaders

I’m late to the party on this one but I recently started watching HBO’s brilliant series ‘Industry’. The premise ‘Young finance graduates venture out in the cut-throat competitive world to get a job during the recession times that followed as a result of the 2008...

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Your Product Management Toolset for 2024

Your Product Management Toolset for 2024

It seems that every few months there are a bunch of shiny new tools to help us build products, design stuff or manage projects or teams. What’s your go-to stack for product management / development? Over the past few years remote work has been thrust to the fore....

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Creating a Product-Led Culture: A Personal Take

Creating a Product-Led Culture: A Personal Take

'Product-led' has been such a buzzword in recent years. The story goes that product-led companies not only harness great work cultures but are also set up for commercial success by this very culture and way of working. But what does it mean to be 'product-led', and...

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The Pitfalls of Radical Candor: A Critical Examination

The Pitfalls of Radical Candor: A Critical Examination

Communication is key. After running teams, coaching and also being a parent I realise that with good communication issues can be resolved quickly with the minimum amount of pain all round. A few years ago I decided to introduce Kim Scott's 'Radical Candour' concept to...

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From PM to CPO – Your Blueprint to Product C-Suite

From PM to CPO – Your Blueprint to Product C-Suite

The old adage 'be careful for what you wish for' can often apply to career moves or aspirations. Many product managers see moving to VP Product, Head of Product or even CPO a natural career progression. However the transition to C-suite might not be for everyone. With...

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