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Product Managers Aren't Responsible for the Delivery of their Products
There has been a lot of talk recently about the role of product managers in companies, and the value that they bring to the table. Part of this is a…
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July 2023
June 2023
A Podcast Episode Bonanza and Pondering the Tricky Relationship between Sales and Product Management
A few weeks ago, I got this cold outreach that claimed that I needed help from Some Guy™️ because my newsletter is “kinda weak”. I flipped the guy off…
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May 2023
Three Mindsets that Can Cripple Product Managers, and Why we Need to Forget the Funnel
I gave a Product Makers talk recently that covered some reasons that product managers might find it hard to make progress and demonstrate forward…
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Embracing Change to Innovate and Why You Should NEVER Divide by Effort When Prioritising
I recently had an interesting discussion with a friend about how to “measure the value of a product management team”, and it really got me thinking …
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The Product Operations Manifesto, and why you should Reverse Egg-ineer your Ideal Customer Profile
I was recently speaking to a company leader suffering from a disconnect between their idea of the product strategy and their Head of Product’s idea of…
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Balancing the need to be Customer-Focused with the need to "Innovate"
I ran a poll on Twitter recently, asking the longest time period people had been asked to provide roadmaps for. The results were surprising! The longest…
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April 2023
Fostering a Culture of Experimentation, and is Product-Led Growth Really For You?
I was recently thinking about Conway’s Law: "Any organisation that designs a system will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the…
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(Don't) Scream If You Want To Go Faster, and How to Best Share Roadmaps with Stakeholders
Some heartening news from the front lines of product management. 60% of product managers don't have entirely “deliver this feature” OKRs! We’re going to…
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March 2023
Using AI in Product Management, Moving to Software Value Streams, and Handling Customer Feedback when Everything’s Urgent
I’ve been in love with technology and all the things it can help us achieve since I was, like, 6 years old and saw my first computer. That was quite a…
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Getting Good at Competitor Analysis, and should we charge the Customer for that Feature Request?
In well-functioning product companies, product managers are strategic business partners who help companies make good decisions. It's a product manager’s…
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