Field Note · 7 min read
Prioritisation Frameworks Don’t Make the Difficult Decision for You
RICE, scoring models and tidy matrices can improve a conversation. They cannot decide which assumptions, obligations and strategic bets deserve to matter.
Product, between the lines.
Field Notes
View all ↗Concepts, definitions, and useful distinctions before they become jargon.
Field Note · 7 min read
Product Discovery Is Not a Phase Before Delivery
Discovery is not the polite waiting room where ideas sit before engineering makes them real. It is how a team keeps reducing the risk of being confidently wrong.
Field Note · 6 min read
What Product Managers Actually Do All Day
A plain-English look at the invisible work between a customer problem, a decision, and a shipped product.
Field Note · 6 min read
Product Sense, Explained Without the Mysticism
Product sense is not an instinct you are born with. It is a trainable pattern of noticing, framing, and choosing.
Backchannel
View all ↗The incentives, strategy, revenue, and decisions underneath the official story.
Backchannel · 7 min read
Your Product Strategy Is Probably a List of Good Intentions
“Delight customers, use data and grow sustainably” sounds admirable. It still does not tell a product team where to play, how to win or what to refuse.
Backchannel · 7 min read
The Metric Looked Great. The Product Was Still Getting Worse
A metric can rise while customer value quietly falls. The problem is rarely the number itself; it is the story the organisation allowed the number to replace.
Backchannel · 7 min read
Roadmaps Are Not Strategy. They’re a Negotiation in Disguise
The roadmap is not the strategy document. It is where strategy, confidence, politics, and delivery reality negotiate in public.
After Hours
View all ↗Longer, funnier stories told through the conversations after the meeting.
After Hours · 7 min read
The HiPPO Is Not Always the Loudest Person in the Room
Seniority can overpower evidence, but so can a dashboard, a deadline or the person who controls what counts as evidence. Authority has more disguises than a job title.
After Hours · 5 min read
After Hours: When “Customer-Centric” Becomes Corporate Theatre
Customer-centricity is a useful discipline until the phrase becomes a costume worn by decisions that were already made.
After Hours · 5 min read
After Hours: The Feature Nobody Wanted to Own
A small piece of product chisme about orphan features, invisible maintenance, and the cost of “we can always clean it up later.”