Article archives

Here you can find links to all the articles published on this website.

• PRODUCTHEAD: Tsundoku (piles of books waiting to be read)
• PRODUCTHEAD: Facilitating workshops
• PRODUCTHEAD: Product management in charities
• 82: Replatforming the cash cow
• PRODUCTHEAD: Rapid prototyping
• PRODUCTHEAD: Working well with user researchers
• PRODUCTHEAD: Becoming a product leader
• PRODUCTHEAD: Should we be saying no or not?
• PRODUCTHEAD: 9 of the best product management podcasts
• 81: The unifying principles of product management
• PRODUCTHEAD: (Re)discovering discovery
• PRODUCTHEAD: Acting like a startup seeking funding
• PRODUCTHEAD: Starting your next role in product
• PRODUCTHEAD: Success theatre
• What to do when service transformation goes wrong
• PRODUCTHEAD: Basics of finance for product managers
• PRODUCTHEAD: 5 product strategy tips
• PRODUCTHEAD: To err is human
• PRODUCTHEAD: Better than okay OKRs
• PRODUCTHEAD: Pimp my system
• Q&A: I’m overwhelmed — can you help?
• PRODUCTHEAD: Listen all y’all, it’s a sabotage
• PRODUCTHEAD: Everyone needs coaching
• PRODUCTHEAD: Product management post-COVID-19
• PRODUCTHEAD: World Product Day 2021
• Q&A: How do you find the balance between autonomy and focus for PMs you’re managing?
• PRODUCTHEAD: Stakeholders are people too
• PRODUCTHEAD: “Don’t f**k up the culture”
• PRODUCTHEAD: Service design and product management
• PRODUCTHEAD: Ethical product management
• 80: The neverending quest for product-market fit
• PRODUCTHEAD: User personas or creepy caricatures?
• PRODUCTHEAD: Trust and customer success
• PRODUCTHEAD: Why do my houseplants keep dying?
• Mission to Mars
• PRODUCTHEAD: What’s the fuss about Jobs To Be Done?
• PRODUCTHEAD: The new lamplighters
• PRODUCTHEAD: Recruiting the right stuff
• 79: The product leader’s guide to interviewing
• PRODUCTHEAD: When did storytelling become so hard?
• PRODUCTHEAD: It’s payback time on technical debt
• Q&A: Should a product manager have responsibility for profitability?
• PRODUCTHEAD: Wrap your ears around these podcasts
• PRODUCTHEAD: The what, why and how of user research
• 78: How to start a new product manager job
• PRODUCTHEAD: Remind me, what am I meant to be doing?
• PRODUCTHEAD: Rethinking product roadmaps
• Q&A: What technical skills do I need to be a product manager?
• PRODUCTHEAD: Creativity is borne of constraints
• PRODUCTHEAD: Pricing – everything and nothing has changed
• 77: The only article you’ll ever need on prioritization
• PRODUCTHEAD: The good, the bad and the ugly of machine learning
• PRODUCTHEAD: Better teams need better leaders
• Q&A: What lessons from antiquity would you apply to product management?
• PRODUCTHEAD: There are only 5 product strategies
• 76: Manage the whole product
• PRODUCTHEAD: Being able to see the chessboard
• PRODUCTHEAD: Digital inclusion and accessibility
• Managing product managers
• Q&A: What’s the difference between a product manager and a business analyst?
• PRODUCTHEAD: Content design
• PRODUCTHEAD: Rearranging the deckchairs
• 75: The dirty little secrets of decision-making
• PRODUCTHEAD: Have you been having visions?
• PRODUCTHEAD: The plummeting price of power
• Misunderstood metaphors: Product manager as conductor
• PRODUCTHEAD: Hardware’s harder to manage
• PRODUCTHEAD: Hieranarchy
• Growing together: developing and retaining your product team
• PRODUCTHEAD: A single point of failure
• Podcast: Voxgig Fireside for professional speakers
• PRODUCTHEAD: Introverts, extraverts and just a smidge of pseudoscience
• Open, honest and always improving
• PRODUCTHEAD: Tricksy interviews
• 74: The black art of designing content
• PRODUCTHEAD: Living your brand values
• PRODUCTHEAD: Finding the positives
• Saving yourself from product management hell
• 73: You wouldn’t drive blindfolded – why you need user research
• Upcoming live talks – September and October 2020
• 5 product leadership lessons learnt from the UK’s Ministry of Justice Digital team
• Q&A: How do I make my CV stand out?
• How to measure product management – ProductBeats talk
• 72: All the world’s a stage – how to launch a product
• Q&A: What’s the best way to focus teams on outcomes not outputs?
• Upcoming live talks – July 2020
• Q&A: What’s the name for ‘continuing to find product-market fit’?
• Reading aloud
• 71: The PMO strikes back
• What does a product manager do (and not do)?
• 70: You need a delivery manager on your team
• May you live in interesting times
• 69: It matters what you say and what you do
• 68: 4 common user persona mistakes
• 67: Why cake is important for product leaders
• 66: Show the thing
• Podcast: Learning Product Leadership
• Q&A: Interview for Working Products conference
• Q&A: What makes a good UX designer?
• Speaking at DevTalks Romania 2019
• Q&A: Can I pick your brain about product roadmaps?
• 65: The secrets of meaningful product roadmaps (redux)
• Speaking at Landing Festival Berlin 2019
• Q&A: Should I take a different role before applying to become a product manager?
• How do you establish an effective product management team?
• Threads II – The Sequel
• Speaking at ProductCamp L’viv
• Product management has evolved. Has your company?
• Q&A: What skills do I need to be a freelance product manager?
• 64: Good product management
• Speaking at DevTalks Bucharest in June
• Q&A: How do I make myself more suitable for a senior product role in UK government?
• Q&A: I need a product manager with specific experience, can you help?
• 63: The whole agile thing
• Q&A: How on earth am I going to start managing a second product?
• 62: How to measure product manager performance
• 61: The 16 most important technical skills every product manager needs
• 60: The 12 most important soft skills every product manager needs
• 59: Find the tipping point in your user research
• Q&A: Getting into product management
• Q&A: what’s the one thing retailers are doing wrong in ecommerce?
• 58: What Eurovision taught me about product management
• 57: Cut through red tape
• Q&A: how do you keep user needs front and centre?
• The secret behind meaningful product roadmaps
• 56: The coffee shop problem
• The benefits of open and transparent data
• Q&A: what sources of information should people use to build products?
• Q&A: What user trends do you see?
• Q&A: what kinds of questions should I be asking in discovery?
• How UK government digital services gather and use evidence
• Q&A: how closely aligned should product organisations be with marketing and personas?
• Why we can’t help jumping to conclusions
• Q&A: How much evidence is sufficient for decision-making?
• Expensive and risky assumptions (and why you should check them)
• Q&A: How do I get my waterfall organisation to be more agile?
• Q&A: How do I distil users’ wish lists of requirements to a core handful?
• 55: How to beat writer’s block
• Modernising your product in 2017 – webinar for Logi Analytics
• Starting with a guess: how to use data creatively
• Building a product community in government
• 54: How to stop common B2B dysfunctions in the product team
• How product managers can build a healthier relationship with the sales team
• 53: THIS is what product-market fit looks like
• 52: It only takes one bottleneck
• The £20 bottle of Blue Nun
• 3 ways to build a better sales team
• Should I start a bank?
• How to show your team the benefits of experimentation
• 51: Assemble the right product team
• Getting better at public speaking
• 6 simple rules of product management
• 50: A novice’s introduction to service design for product managers
• 49: How to prioritise your product portfolio
• 48: Mac or PC? You don’t have to pick a side
• Making myself redundant
• Interview with Wade Danielson of The Entrepreneurs Library
• Q&A: I’m about to launch a website. Any advice?
• Becoming a product manager at MOJ Digital
• Want a free copy of ‘The Practitioner’s Guide …’?
• Q&A: What’s it like working as a product manager at a startup?
• The Practitioner’s Guide… a best seller and selling out fast!
• The Practitioner’s Guide To Product Management – out tomorrow
• 47: How I learned to stop hating job interviews
• Link of the Day: Data-driven products now! (by @mcfunley)
• 46: How to qualify yourself for a product management job
• 45: Three ways you’re DEFINITELY doing MVPs wrong
• Analytics and decision-making on Mind the Product
• Should the product manager and product owner be the same person?
• Guard against the SSLv3 Vulnerability (“POODLE”) in Zeus Web Server
• 44: A good picture can save 1,000 words
• ‘I Manage Products’ now 14% more efficient!
• 39-43: Four more things I’ve learned about product management
• Change management and product management on Mind the Product
• 10 top tips for reading your users’ minds – talk at Product Management Festival 2014
• 38: Product managers learn by doing
• Product roadmapping, prioritisation and portfolio management on Mind the Product
• B2B Product Management on Mind the Product
• A day in the life of a product manager – guest post for Silicon Milkroundabout
• Product Management and the Internet of Things on Mind the Product
• 14th May: The $100 million assumption – MVP down under
• 37: Unexpected delights – a geek’s guide to the Kano model
• Product Management in Commerce on Mind the Product
• 2nd March: Calling all entrepreneurs – Cofounders Bootcamp
• Back(log) to the Future – story arcs, roadmaps and product themes
• 24th February: How to build a minimum viable product (MVP) at General Assembly London
• 24th January: How to build a minimum viable product (MVP) at General Assembly London
• 36: Product roadmaps are like DVD box sets
• Product Management in Online Payments on Mind the Product
• 35: Product management skills to pay the bills
• Happy Christmas + where I’ve been hiding
• Product Management and the Internet of Things on Mind the Product
• 34: Pick your battles
• 4th November: How to build a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) @GA_London
• Link of the day: The Agile Business Gap by @brainmates
• Ich bin ein Produkt-Manager: round-up from inaugural Product Management Festival 2013 in Zürich
• Join me to learn Product Management with General Assembly
• Cycles within cycles
• Crack out the Ferrero Rocher*
• Needs, features and benefits
• Blast from the past
• Fun, fun, fun at ProductTank London!
• 33: The Field of Dreams is fiction
• Win-win-win with Wigwamm – an interview with Rayhan Rafiq Omar
• 32: Be flexible
• 31: Learn to enjoy networking
• What you should expect when recruiting a product manager
• Product managers make GREAT dinner guests
• 21st February: Building a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) @GA_London
• Don’t look back in anger – 2012 round-up
• My new favourite things
• 30: Reserve time for housekeeping
• UPDATED – 10th December: How to run effective usability testing @GA_London
• 29: Never commit to written word something you’ll be ashamed of later
• Top tip: fixing broken dynamic content in WordPress admin dashboard
• Link of the day: Agile Product Ownership in a nutshell
• 28: What’s the big idea?
• The 8 traits of a successful web API
• Why sales needs to align with product management to win more business
• Introducing Product People – product management, mentoring and copywriting
• 27: Don’t be scared of angry customers
• import.io – Live from Big Data London & Strata
• 26: The customer is king
• 18th October: How to Run Effective Usability Testing
• Link of the Day: IntuitionHQ – Website Usability Testing
• Link of the Day: Pricing your product – it doesn’t have to be so complicated
• Link of the Day: LaunchRock
• 25: “Don’t let roUtINe draw U IN to danger!”
• Link of the Day: Kano tutorial via Mountain Goat Software
• Facebook is like the drinking game “I Have Never…”
• Link of the Day: Flat Icons & Icon Fonts
• 24: Variety is the spice of life
• What questions do YOU have about product management?
• Link of the day: Klok – free time tracking software
• How to double the speed of your WordPress site in 3 easy steps
• Link of the day: Product Focus’s journal
• Link of the day: The DIY Media Kit for Startups
• 23: Too much choice can be overwhelming
• 22: Blow your own trumpet
• 21: Seven KPIs for customer insight
• Big Data – Big Deal?
• Cookie cookie cookie COOOKIE
• 20: Leave work when you’re meant to
• 19: How to regain control of your inbox
• 18: Five ways to manage distractions better
• 17: Remember your manners
• Link of the day: MindJet Connect
• 16: You don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone – Joni Mitchell
• 15: Product management is selling
• Drowning in product documentation? Start swimming – Part 2
• 14: There is always more work to do. Don’t burn yourself out
• 13: You’ve got to start the race before you can finish it
• 12: Keep it simple, stupid
• Drowning in product documentation? Start swimming – Part 1
• 11: You are allowed to say ‘no’ – it’s strategic
• 10: Give yourself time to think in a straight line
• Book recommendation – The Case for Working with Your Hands
• 9: Everything benefits from a good start in life
• 8: Empathise, empathise, empathise
• Live on ProdMgmtTalk July 25/26 – the love/hate relationship with Sales
• 7: Public speaking is as much about how you say it as well as what you say
• 6: Good presentation skills are not the same as good PowerPoint skills
• Lean, green, micro machines
• 5: The best possible way may not necessarily be the right way
• 4: Don’t focus on what’s stopping you
• 3: Know your subject matter
• 2: Find problems rather than guess solutions
• 1: Be fluent in the language of your audience
• OMG EOL – LOL (or: How to take a product to end of life)
• Painting the Forth Bridge
• Lo-fi usability testing – Part 3: Ten top tips
• Lo-fi usability testing – Part 2: Preparation
• Lo-fi usability testing – Part 1: Background
• What will your leaving speech sound like?
• New WordPress theme
• How to get your sales team selling value instead of discounting
• Link of the day: The Equity Kicker
• ProductCamp London: Why product managers and entrepreneurs need to be more alike
• Pre-empting customer churn
• Q&A: What should product managers keep an eye on in 2011?
• Link of the day: Buzz Marketing for Technology
• 7 guiding principles for product install / upgrade usability
• Link of the day: inspireUX
• Easier product forecasting
• 33 cut-out-and-keep usability requirements for your product
• DIY Eco Linux Fileserver (part 2)
• DIY Eco Linux Fileserver (part 1)
• The thorny issue of pricing
• The problem with successful products
• Net Promoter EU Conference 2010
• Why aren’t Sales selling my new product?
• Ill communication
• “Why the heck should I upgrade?” – 4 things you’re probably missing
• Positive procrastination
• 4 key ways to spot a successful product manager
• Context is everything
• Hello. I’m new.
• Questions you need to be asking
• Pay attention to local requirements
• By way of an introduction