How You’re Accidentally Blocking Your Team’s Best Work (PW #17) How a few simple rules can boost your teams productivity. Sticking to a few simple scheduling rules can maximize the amount of focus time your team has on a daily basis!
You Are Not Perfect — And That's Okay! (PW #16) Just because you’re NOT launching groundbreaking new features every month, doesn’t mean you aren't making an impact. The reality of product management is often messy. Sometimes, being a good PM means keeping the train on the tracks rather than building the actual tracks. And that’s valuable too.
Consensus is Killing Your Product (PWW #15) Discover why over-reliance on consensus building can stall innovation and decision-making in product management. Learn how to strike the right balance between collaboration and decisiveness to keep your product moving forward.
Surprise! You've Been Hired by AI (PWW #14) Congratulations on your new job! No, you didn’t apply for it, but it’s true – you’ve been working another job, unbeknownst to you.
Bookmarks Edition (PWW #13) I read a lot about product management and technology during the week. Every once in a while I think it's fun to share some of the best or most interesting things I've read recently.
Why do we still create roadmaps like it's 1995? (PWW #12) The way you present your roadmap or backlog significantly impacts subsequent discussions and questions. There's no single best way to present a roadmap. So it's worth exploring different methods to find what suits you best.
Do you have High or Low Agency? (PWW #11) The single biggest predictor of a product being successful? If the people working on it (and that definitely includes the PO/PM) have High Agency. Let's explore what Agency is, and how you can grow it.
Comparing ChatGPT competitors Google Gemini, Anthropic Claude & Perplexity AI (PWW #10) This week I want to dive a bit deeper into the competition in the LLM space. Let's see how they stack up, and what interesting models are out there to try.
Sprint Planning 2.0 (PWW #9) This week I want to tackle a very common issue in Scrum teams: bad sprint planning. And I'll be honest: I have caused (or at least allowed) my fair share of bad sprint plannings over the years...
Building my own AI assistant using Custom GPT and AI Actions (PWW #8) This week I want to kick-off by showing how I am currently building a personal assistant using ChatGPT. And what I have learned in the process so far.