If you missed last week’s webinar with Product Ops legend, ​Antonia Landi​, don’t worry the recording is up on ​YouTube here​.

We covered a lot of ground, but one thing I didn’t expect was to go all meta and discuss “what is product management?”

Here's why I'm skeptical on AI.

That's not to say I don't think it's going to have a material impact on our world — I think it will — but just because something can be done with AI doesn't mean it's going to provide the same value.

Hear me out... (and I totally recognise not everyone is going to agree with me on this one!)

Here's a stat that might blow your mind;

The number of independent agents in the US has grown from 45,000 in the late 90s to more than 105,000 in early 2020, before the pandemic — that's more than a 230% increase! (reference '​The Jolt Effect​').

Coming up with a product strategy should be messy.

It's not some clean fill in the box activity.

Instead it's often big messy Miro boards, multiple white boarding sessions, synthesising loads of data, and documents plastered with comments.

And a lot of back-and-forth.

It's important to not mistake a neat Product Strategy document at the end as the thing.

Being data-driven can be an awful trap.

We believe we’re collecting data that portrays an unbiased view of the world.

Data that will help us make the ideal decision.

After all, that’s what the data says, right?

Bad news. Your data is biased.

This post will make you rethink prioritization through the lens of urgency.

Lessons and reflections from John Cutler’s Effective Prioritzation Workshop.

Below you’ll find a write up on:

• What is Dual Track (continuous discovery and delivery) and how does it work

• Why you should move away from project discovery towards this model

• The mindset that you need to make it successful

• and common practices that I’ve found helpful

In this week's post you’ll find:

• What is product discovery?

• The 3 Core Components of Product Discovery

• What the definition of done is for discovery

• Why product discovery should help you STOP ideas

• And who does product discovery

Your OKRs don’t live in a vacuum.

Yet this is exactly how I see many organizations treat their OKRs.

They jump on the bandwagon and create OKRs void of any context.

Here’s what I see all the time…

Here's a hack I use to dealing with stakeholders coming with solutions, rather than problems.

Don't try to work backwards, work forward.

I wrote a post a couple of years back on ‘How to craft your First Product Vision’ where I open with:

“There’s a lot of advice out there on how to write a good vision statement, many will point you to the popular ‘Elevator pitch’ format (among others), but personally I’ve never felt those frameworks were suitable for my final vision statement — you sure don’t see the likes of Telsa, Apple, etc using these kinds of formats for their vision statements, do you?”

Last week, over 300 passionate product people joined me live for a free webinar on ‘Building Effective Product Roadmaps’ (the recording is below).

I want to share the results of the polls I ran during the webinar and figured, why not do a summary of the key points too.

Let’s get into it!

A comprehensive guide to conducting user interviews covering: 1) How to structure a user interview for maximum impact and 2) How to design better questions to elicit high-quality responses.

We are told that great Product Managers are great storytellers but the preaching often lacks actionable guidance on how to become good at storytelling. It’s time to change that!

KPIs = measures of health. OKRs = things we want to change.

When I've helped organisations become more outcome/product orientated, more often than not, I've moved them away from 'epics' and 'user stories' and towards things like one-pagers, opportunities, hypotheses, etc. Why? Because they’re are better tools for facilitating outcome thinking and experimentation.

In 2019 an HBR article stated that of the $1.3 trillion spent on transformations, $900 billion was wasted. More interesting is that, Digital and Agile transformations alike are seldom seen in product-tech companies (e.g. Canva, Google, Amazon, etc). Moreover, one job search for ‘Scrum Master’ or ‘Agile Coach’ role, and you won’t find them at these companies either — why?

A step-by-step guide (with templates) to level up your Product Discovery. A common question I get when I coach Product Managers is, "I know what I want to do discovery on, but how do I get started?" Although there are many ways to start discovery, I have two tools that are my absolute go-to for kicking off and structuring Product Discovery.

There are many different types of roadmaps and different formats that roadmaps can take.

Here are a few different shapes a Product Roadmap can take. I hope this gives you some inspiration and perhaps even makes you rethink your current roadmap format.

This is something that comes up often for me — I get questions like:

“What’s the difference between a Product Designer and Product Manager?”….All valid questions but they all have one problem. They are all coming from an individual perspective, not a team one

What's the difference between Product Management and Product Ownership? Are they the same thing, or different?  It’s ok, no one seems to know. Rather we find the answer lies in where it all began - where they came from.