The value of variety
Reflecting on how variety of experience helped shape my most recent career chapter.
Blog
Thoughts on getting things done.
I'm back
A return after a long gap.
Communicating better: my favourite tips
The listener pays, that should've been an email, get to the point, signpost and propose a strawman.
Engineering and product should be unified, not separate
Splitting Engineering and Product into separate organisations creates friction, blame, and slow loops. Keep them together.
A product design reading list
Four books that will sharpen your thinking on design — whether you're a designer or not.
The Cultural Web is the menu for your strategy breakfast
Culture's important but what drives it? And can you really change it?
Brutal prioritisation: how small product teams can get a lot done
Small teams get a lot done by saying no to good ideas. Pick the best and park the rest.
Setting up a team of teams
How to transition from a single team to a team of teams without losing speed, clarity, or accountability.
The key to product development capability is eliminating friction from development loops
Get more shots at success by keeping things frictionless
The Ultimate Crash Course in product management
The best way to learn product management is to build and grow something real. Here's how to approach it.
What does a product manager do?
Product management is fundamentally about prioritisation across multiple disciplines. You don't need to excel at all of them.
Your brand marketing needs your best analytical talent
Brand marketing has big budgets, sparse data, and complex decisions. It deserves your best analytical people — not your worst.
How to settle fights for development time
Stop negotiating development time sprint by sprint. Allocate by quarter, let teams decide how to use it, and eliminate the arm wrestling.
To beat the odds in ramen, think like an engineer
How a ramen restaurant in Singapore succeeds where most fail — by thinking like an engineer.
Leaving the European Union would be a divorce without reason
Written before the Brexit vote: why leaving the EU would be a mistake for the UK.
Hiring your first "techie"
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 Summary: have authority and responsibility sit together
The 80% Rule in summary: authority and responsibility must sit together. Separating them is the root cause of most organisational dysfunction.
Functional organization can sometimes be good for you
A counterpoint: sometimes functional organisation is the right call. Here's when centralising actually makes sense.
New direction for GS Dun
A brief note on GS Dun taking stock and heading in a new direction.
Why my backpack is like Air Force One: international is a necessity
Why European companies need to expand internationally to compete at global scale — and how GS Dun approaches it.