I like meditation, but I never do it. I did manage my at-best-annual session recently. The session spoke of approaching life as if you’d just arrived here on earth, straight into your life. Without all the past baggage. Without the pre-built neural pathways. What if you just took things on…

If you just want to see the one-pager template we use, skip to the bottom of this article. I’ve been from the school of what problem are we actually trying to solve for as long as I can remember. But this was more in the conversations we were having, rather…

Fifteen years ago 😅 Ben Horowitz wrote the seminal Good Product Manager/Bad Product Manager. This included the famous statement: “A good product manager is the CEO of the product”. A lot has been said about how this isn’t true. How PMs often don’t have budget authority, or others have greater…

Last year, I was fortunate enough to attend a Design Sprint workshop run by their creator Jake Knapp. On Day one of the sprint, you create a map, where you outline the product journey and decide on which activity to focus. To get things moving, the map starts with a…

Of all the places you can spend money in a tech company, the engineering team is often by far the largest cost-centre. Similar to digital ads, it’s also a place where, if you aren’t careful, you can waste a lot of money. If less is more, think how much more more would be When you’re trying to grow a new product…

When you’re building a product, it’s tough to avoid the distractions and stay focused. Getting your entire product development team on song is crucial to your success. Over the past few years, I’ve worked for organisations of all shapes and sizes; Startups, agencies, large orgs, and where I work now…

The best UX is no UX. The best code is no code. Pretty much everything I, and probably you, have worked on would be better if it wasn’t there. What? Ok, so I’m being a touch facetious. That’s not quite what I mean. I’m not saying there is no value in…

Launching new products is really hard. Each year around 30,000 new products are introduced, of these, 95% fail. Think about that for a second. You and your 19 closest friends all decide to launch your own products. Before long, only Bert is left standing, with a product that people actually want to buy. Stupid Bert. I’ll…

A couple of weeks back Ryan Singer from the Basecamp team released Shape Up: Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work that Matters. An in-depth look at how they do product development at Basecamp. From the first few pages, I was hooked. The approach answers several product development questions I’ve…