What do a bunch of health tech companies I’ve examined over the past few years have in common? Quite a lot in fact. But one things sticks out - neat quarterly boxes filled with feature names, integration milestones, and platform expansion plans. They're beautiful...

The conversation around AI in product management has become tactically obsessed. Every article offers prompt libraries or promises faster documentation. This misses the point entirely. The real challenge isn't learning to prompt AI tools. It's rethinking how product...

The feature factory is dead. Long live the people factory. After two decades of product leadership evolution, we've finally reached a tipping point. The most successful product organisations are no longer measured solely by feature velocity or release cadence, they're...

Stickies, RIP? Has AI Killed the Design Sprint? Short answer: the five-day, “everyone in a room with Post-its” ritual is pretty much a memory relegated to the nostalgic days of in-person workshops, stickies, sharpies and dot voting. AI hasn’t killed problem framing,...

It has taken me years to hone discipline with my gym and fitness routine but is now a baked in habit aka ‘lifestyle’. This means a 5am something start no matter what or how I’m feeling and a habitual accountability check on nutrition, sleep, hydration and...

A while back I wrote this piece ‘Should CPOs write user stories’ - in essence what I was getting at was not really whether CPOs should write user stories but part of a larger question - how far should CPOs, product managers or leaders get their hands dirty? How much...

With AI products and integrations seeing no sign of letting up it is easy to see why product teams might want to jump on the bandwagon. Imagine for a second a team wanting to make their product onboarding smoother. They add a simple AI chatbot - something powered by...

How did we get here? Not a day goes by without LinkedIn telling us AI is great, AI is bad, we should ignore it, augment it, use it, it can replace humans, it can’t replace humans. And on and on. I realised recently when speaking to a client that so many organisations...

Things move faster now. And this means that everything around us had to adjust - the way in which we work, what teams we build, technology choices and also how we measure stuff. When times were slower, ARR – Annual Recurring Revenue – was the north star for SaaS...

Ever wondered why the products you love just seem to defy all the ‘best practice’ smarts that you try and instill in your teams? Sad truth is, real growth doesn’t always mean a good experience! And it often hides a whole bunch of broken stuff beneath - be it bugs,...