Author: Jock Busuttil

Jock Busuttil is a product management and leadership coach, product leader and author. He has spent over two decades working with technology companies to improve their product management practices, from startups to multinationals. In 2012 Jock founded Product People Limited, which provides product management consultancy, coaching and training. Its clients include BBC, University of Cambridge, Ometria, Prolific and the UK’s Ministry of Justice and Government Digital Service (GDS). Jock holds a master’s degree in Classics from the University of Cambridge. He is the author of the popular book The Practitioner’s Guide To Product Management, which was published in January 2015 by Grand Central Publishing in the US and Piatkus in the UK. He writes the blog I Manage Products and weekly product management newsletter PRODUCTHEAD. You can find him on Mastodon, X (formerly Twitter) and LinkedIn.

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» So-called hypergrowth is quadratic, not exponential (adding a larger fixed amount each year — not multiplying)

» Sustainable growth requires new products or built-in virality, not just more marketing

» True exponential growth is rare and short-lived

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» A prototype expresses a product concept far better and quicker than a product requirements document (PRD)

» People good at doing a thing themselves are not always good at building a system to do it

» Work is craft: theoretical knowledge and practical experience combined

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» Platform product management dials everything up to 11

» A successful platform is continually evolving in line with user needs and emerging tech

» Platform teams must recognise and respect the varying needs of their community of users

Turkish chef Nusret Gökçe aka Salt Bae sprinking AI on stuff (Screengrab from https://www.instagram.com/p/BO9dI9ujWNI/ )

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New technology is not going to suddenly make all the challenges facing an organisation disappear overnight. Why? Because more often than not, those challenges are social not technological. Technology alone rarely solves ‘people problems’.