021
Leadership & Organisation
10 min read
Product Management Productivity: Improve the Flow of Decisions
Diagnose decision queues, work in progress, interruptions, and coordination load, then expose where product work actually waits.
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Product notes for people who build.
Practical essays on product strategy, discovery, development, technology, and the work of turning ideas into useful products.
020
Product Strategy
10 min read
How to Prioritise: Make Trade-offs, Not Just Rankings
A practical way to prioritise product work by outcomes, evidence, cost, risk, and strategic fit—without letting a scoring framework make the decision for you.
019
Discovery & Validation
11 min read
9 Product Discovery Questions That Force a Decision
Use nine decision-focused questions to expose product risk, choose credible evidence, and make discovery change what the team does next.
018
Discovery & Validation
11 min read
Product Discovery Techniques: Build an Evidence Portfolio
Choose product discovery methods by the uncertainty they can reduce, the decision they support, and the claims their evidence cannot justify.
017
Leadership & Organisation
12 min read
Product Team Conflict: Resolve Work and Repair Trust
Diagnose product-team conflict, choose the right resolution path, make the contested work decidable, repair trust, and verify that the agreement holds.
016
Measurement & Growth
10 min read
Churn: Find Where Value Breaks Before You Fight the Metric
Diagnose churn as a broken path to value: define the event, compare mature cohorts, combine behaviour with context, and match the intervention to the cause.
015
Leadership & Organisation
10 min read
Saying No in Product Management: Make the Trade-off Explicit
Turn product boundaries into inspectable commitment decisions with clear authority, consequences, alternatives, and conditions for reopening the request.
014
Product Strategy
11 min read
Vanity Metrics: Choose Numbers That Can Change a Decision
Distinguish a useful product signal from a vanity metric by testing its decision, value mechanism, claim boundary, counter-signals, and incentives.
013
Product Strategy
10 min read
Reviving a Retired Product: Treat Re-entry as a New Commitment
Decide whether a retired product should return by testing changed conditions, alternatives, inherited obligations, compatibility, trust, and stop rules.
012
Leadership & Organisation
12 min read
Responsible Product Management: Make Harm a Release Constraint
Turn product ethics into operating decisions: map affected people, test harms, set release constraints, assign authority, and plan response and remedy.
011
Product Strategy
11 min read
Product Pivoting: Change the Strategy, Not the Story
Decide when a product pivot is warranted, identify the belief that failed, test a replacement strategy, manage transition debt, and set a review gate.
010
Design & Delivery
12 min read
Minimum Viable Product: Build the Smallest Honest Test of Value
Design an MVP around one consequential behaviour, an evidence contract, explicit operating limits, recoverable failure, and a decision the release can change.
009
Leadership & Organisation
12 min read
When Product Managers Become the Organisational Catch-All
Classify the work landing on product management, expose what it displaces, and negotiate clear ownership without refusing necessary work.
008
Leadership & Organisation
11 min read
Human Work in Technical Product Management: Make Decisions Safer
Use translation, explicit uncertainty, boundary objects, trade-off negotiation, and decision trails to reduce risk in technical product work.
007
Leadership & Organisation
12 min read
Moving into Product Management: Build Evidence Before the Title
A rigorous transition plan for choosing a product context, testing transferable evidence, building an honest portfolio, and judging a first PM role.
006
Measurement & Growth
12 min read
Build a Product Community People Need Without Your Brand
Design a product community around member value, reliable participation, fair governance, contributor care, and a clear company boundary.
005
Leadership & Organisation
12 min read
Effective Stakeholder Management: Design the Decision Interfaces
Manage stakeholders by defining the evidence, authority, exposure, and commitments around product decisions—not by sending more updates.
004
Product Strategy
11 min read
Product Management Context: Diagnose the Work Before Choosing the Method
Use a context brief across uncertainty, product phase, business model, risk, and decision rights to determine what product management must do now.
003
Design & Delivery
10 min read
Design and Engineering Collaboration: Keep Intent Executable
Build a durable design-engineering interface around shared decisions, explicit states, technical constraints, implementation feedback, and product verification.
002
Discovery & Validation
11 min read
Unsolicited User Feedback: From Raw Request to Product Decision
Turn unsolicited feedback into decision-ready evidence without treating feature requests as requirements, losing context, or creating roadmap promises.
001
Product Strategy
12 min read
Product Strategy: Build a Coherent Choice System
Turn one consequential product challenge into a coherent set of choices, exclusions, capabilities, economics, assumptions, and decision rules.