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PRODUCTHEAD: ROI is wildly imprecise / Product operating system

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With ROI, development estimates may be optimistic; revenue estimates are often more so

Your organisation has an operating system — the way it works — even if it’s not consciously designed

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This week Rich Mironov highlights the vagueness inherent i...

PRODUCTHEAD: Time passes …

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Achieving ambitious goals takes years of slog and perseverance — there’s no fast-forward button

Successful companies such as IKEA use time as a strategic advantage

There’s no single ‘right’ strategy — what matters more is choosing a good one and sticking with it long...

PRODUCTHEAD: Tharin × Cutler on product operating models

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Define in an operating model team sizes, roles, and responsibilities

Reduce single points of failure and promote shared accountability

Establish a shared language around team and domain evolution

Stay firm on the chosen operating model and evaluate it with...

PRODUCTHEAD: Angel Delight

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In time our use of genAI will balance out with the human touch

Learn what genAI can and can’t do, and how far it can be trusted

LLMs will most likely take over the routine writing that holds organisations together

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PRODUCTHEAD: ICYMI holidays 2024 edition

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Highlights from 2024’s guests on Melissa Perri’s podcast

Office politics isn’t always distasteful

Applying common sense can by stymied by the organisational culture

User research is a discipline — it requires trained practitioners

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PRODUCTHEAD: The most popular of 2024

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Most read edition: ‘Showing your value’ — why to focus on high impact work

Edition with most clicks: ‘Enough handwringing already’ — let’s not write ourselves off as a profession quite yet

Most clicked article: ‘AI discovers that not every fingerprint is un...

PRODUCTHEAD: What are we doing about …?

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“This is what we learned, and here’s how we’re going to adjust our plan”

As with strategy, studying and predicting the future isn’t an innate skill but a muscle you can build

AI will eventually have its “plane crash moment”

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As I exist in an almost perpet...

PRODUCTHEAD: How commercial does a product manager need to be?

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Product managers need a blend of skills, of which commercial acumen is a part

Which does your company pay more attention to: the immediate or the long-term?

Selling to everybody is selling to nobody

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What freelance product management is really like with Jock Busuttil

Off the back of his recent article for Mind The Product, Liam Smith interviewed me about my experiences in freelance product management.

I started as a freelance product manager in 2012 when I founded Product People Limited, and had been blogging about product management for a couple of years before that. (You can read my first ever blog post if you like.)

We cover topics including:

» What’s the difference between a freelancer and a contractor?

» Should you hire freelancers in your p...

PRODUCTHEAD: Should OKRs be boring?

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Accept that some customers will never migrate to your new platform

Products do not fail in vain if you learn something valuable in the process

In 1979 Intel realigned its 2000-strong company around a new set of objectives in just 2 weeks

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