Internal-Facing Products Don’t Have to Be Bad
Customer-facing products are usually a product company’s crown jewels. They look and feel great, which tends to be the result of an end-to-end process. Personas...
Scrum Guide 2020: what’s in it for Product Management?
With less than two months to go, 2020 brings us an updated version of the Scrum Guide. Merits or demerits aside, Scrum is arguably a popular framework. It’...
“Yeah, but…”: The Litmus Test for Platform Businesses
Platform businesses are among the most successful companies of the past few years (think Uber, Facebook, Airbnb, or Amazon). You might also have heard of this m...
OKRs in Early Stage Startups
Andrew Chen has recently published a pretty valid point on most advice on whether OKRs are appropriate for pre- Product-Market Fit / early stage startups. OKRs ...
Solving the Distributed Teams Working Challenge @ ProductCamp London
Last month I was one of more than 200 product people who got together for this year’s ProductCamp London. To make the most out of my first time, I proposed and ...
Natural Intelligence: Learning about Machine Learning Through a Toddler’s Eyes
Nothing amazes me more than the wonder of our existence. And nothing ever cried louder about that wonder than having become a parent. First, it’s a whole marvel...
My 2018 Product Retrospective
Winding down for the New Year in a remote village in Alentejo, I thought I might try being radically open about how 2018 went for me as a human being doing Prod...
Constraints in Product Management Are Cool
Can a Product Manager solve all the problems within the reach of the product they manage, or implement all the features so badly want? Certainly not. Complicati...
A Product is a Product: Product Management Is Not Just Software!
When defining the job of a product manager, at least one of two definitions always pops up. The first one (chronologically speaking) is from...
Marty Meets Martin: Connecting the Two Triads of Product Management
When defining the job of a product manager, at least one of two definitions always pops up. The first one (chronologically) is from the original edition of Mart...