Product Management is not about what you build but what you inherit

Product Management is not about what you build but what you inherit

Software Product management isn’t about creating products... For any product folks reading this who have just spat out their coffee, allow me to explain. How many product managers do you know that have actually led the creation of a net new, greenfield product? I don't know many. In the modern investor funded software startup landscape it is mor ...

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Are Product Teams Harder to Lead?

Are Product Teams Harder to Lead?

Are product teams harder to lead than other R&D teams? This is a question that I've been mulling over recently. I've been leading teams and departments of various disciplines for many years and my experiences in product have been some of the most rewarding but have also at times been the most difficult. As I'm in a lone-contributor role right no ...

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Is UX the new waterfall?

Is UX the new waterfall?

‘It’s a real problem’ my host admitted as we walked down to the entrance lobby. I was in the main office of a major social media company in London a few years ago after completing some user research with their team. The topic we were discussing was how to embed UX discovery and design processes into agile teams without losing the benefits of ag ...

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Hiring Product Roles and Looking for Unicorns

Hiring Product Roles and Looking for Unicorns

I have recently found myself with an interesting insight into the software product talent market, both from the position of an employer looking for talent and in my own search for a next opportunity. I've interviewed a lot of product candidates and also read a wealth of job adverts. What is apparent to me from engaging with this process from both ...

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Building products in services companies

Building products in services companies

I’ve worked in a couple of organisations that were coming from a background of a services based delivery model and trying to move to being product companies. The motivation for this kind of move is clear when revenue multiple valuations are so much higher in the product space. What I’ve seen from these experiences is that the route to success is ...

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