The value of variety
Reflecting on how variety of experience helped shape my most recent career chapter.
Thoughts on getting things done.
Reflecting on how variety of experience helped shape my most recent career chapter.
A return after a long gap.
The listener pays, that should've been an email, get to the point, signpost and propose a strawman.
Splitting Engineering and Product into separate organisations creates friction, blame, and slow loops. Keep them together.
Four books that will sharpen your thinking on design — whether you're a designer or not.
Culture's important but what drives it? And can you really change it?
Small teams get a lot done by saying no to good ideas. Pick the best and park the rest.
How to transition from a single team to a team of teams without losing speed, clarity, or accountability.
Get more shots at success by keeping things frictionless
The best way to learn product management is to build and grow something real. Here's how to approach it.
Product management is fundamentally about prioritisation across multiple disciplines. You don't need to excel at all of them.
Brand marketing has big budgets, sparse data, and complex decisions. It deserves your best analytical people — not your worst.
Stop negotiating development time sprint by sprint. Allocate by quarter, let teams decide how to use it, and eliminate the arm wrestling.
How a ramen restaurant in Singapore succeeds where most fail — by thinking like an engineer.
Written before the Brexit vote: why leaving the EU would be a mistake for the UK.
Hiring your first technical person is one of the most consequential early decisions you'll make. Here's what to look for and what to avoid.
The 80% Rule in summary: authority and responsibility must sit together. Separating them is the root cause of most organisational dysfunction.
A counterpoint: sometimes functional organisation is the right call. Here's when centralising actually makes sense.
A brief note on GS Dun taking stock and heading in a new direction.
Why European companies need to expand internationally to compete at global scale — and how GS Dun approaches it.