Keeping the Fire Lit: The Small, Daily Work Behind Strategic Momentum
The Unglamorous Work of Strategic Momentum Strategic momentum dies slowly through neglect, not dramatically through bad decisions. The problem is that no one actually sits down and decides to stop following the strategy, it just stops being the thing that determines...
On Building Teams That Don’t Need You
Many years ago in my twenties I’d stumbled on a role that required me to lead a small team. Everything was new then aka I didn’t have a clue. I thought that in order to be effective I had to be super hands on, executing alongside the designers and strategists at...
Don’t be trapped by your Healthtech Roadmap
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 Product Manager’s Survival Guide to the ChatGPT Era: Beyond Prompt Engineering
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...
Rewiring Product Teams for Human-Centric Success
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...
Design Sprints After AI: Smaller Teams, Faster Decisions
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,...
Discipline Over Motivation: The Science of Adherence and How to Build This Into Digital Products
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...
AI Agents – The Must Have in the Modern PM’s Toolkit?
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...
The EU Ai Act: What Product Leaders Need to Know
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...
Making AI Product Strategy Deliver: A Practical Framework
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...