Digital by Default

Category: Product

  • A Roadmap Readme

    A Roadmap Readme

    In the dying days of 2022 I started to crowdsource a collection of roadmap examples to help land on a format and approach we could consistently embrace at the day job. I was looking for something that needed to walk a very fine line – an approach that aligned with our agile/product thinking and ways…

  • Crowdsourcing a Roadmap Collection

    Crowdsourcing a Roadmap Collection

    **The collection so far** Product people love a roadmap. We sweat over them, worry about them, take pride in them and look jealousy at the roadmaps of others. We stick firmly with the formats that have served us well or experiment wildly looking for something that articulates the vision of the future in our heads…because…

  • How do you build a ‘community of practice’ without a ‘community’ that practices?

    How do you build a ‘community of practice’ without a ‘community’ that practices?

    I’m really asking. community /kəˈmjuːnɪti/ noun a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common. Not for the first time I find myself in a role where part of my responsibility is to support the development of some folk who are relatively early stage in their product and…

  • It takes two

    It takes two

    Over the years I have developed this slightly – I suspect – off kilter idea of the split of responsibilities between Product and Delivery Managers. Product people are responsible for decisions. That is it really.  Delivery folks are responsible for making sure the team has everything it needs to act on those decisions Product Priorities.…

  • Let it go

    Let it go

    One of the things that I didn’t mention in my previous post about prioritisation is that to succeed at it you have to get comfortable with the art of saying no and ‘letting go’….because just because you/your team/your department holds the line and focuses on the priorities doesn’t mean someone won’t find a way to…