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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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This week I’ve been worrying abo...

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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PRODUCTHEAD: Minimalist product strategy

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Balancing opportunity with strategy in the midst of competing distractions is hard

You wouldn’t let genAI write your product strategy without checking it, right?

Product strategy discovery focuses on the problem space

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I started writing a lo...

Is coding in the open right for your organisation?

One of the design principles that underpinned the digital renaissance in UK government was — and still is — ‘Make things open: it makes things better’.

For this article, I’ve focused specifically on the ‘coding in the open’ part. I’ll cover how it benefits public sector organisations, and how — in the right circumstances — it can yield a strategic advantage to commercial organisations also.

In this articleIntroductionActing on principleReusable, open source components...

PRODUCTHEAD: Strategy toolkit, disappointment and behavioural change

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Strategy is a coherent set of choices about what we’re going to do to achieve our vision

Negotiating estimates ultimately leads to disappointment — it will still take as long as it was going to

The necessary conditions for any behaviour to be enacted include capabilit...