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May 16

My Product Management Toolkit (52): Behavioural Diagnosis

About 8 years ago, I first learned about behavioural design. I read “Hooked”, a book about building habit forming products by Nir Eyal. In Hooked, Nir writes about ‘triggers’ that drive behaviours and how these triggers are followed by ‘actions’. Nir’s work offers great insights into the field of behavioural…

Product Management

4 min read

Apr 30

Pragma (Product Review)

My summary of Pragma before using it? I’ve heard that Pragma is a platform used by developers to create games. I can imagine that Pragma supports makers of a wide variety of games. How does Pragma explain itself in the first minute? “Build and scale games faster, simpler, and more…

Product Management

2 min read

Apr 19

My Product Management Toolkit (51): Thoughtful Disagreement

I like that Ray Dalio thinks there is such a thing as ‘thoughtful disagreement’. If you’d asked me a few years ago, I’d probably told you that there’s no such thing as disagreeing thoughtfully. In my mind, back then, it was simple: you either agree or disagree, and that’s it. …

Collaboration

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My Product Management Toolkit (51): Thoughtful Disagreement

Apr 9

Horizon Workrooms (Product Review)

My summary of Horizon Workrooms before using it? — I won’t be able to use Horizon Workrooms as I believe this is a virtual meeting room product that I can only access through an Oculus wearable device. How does Horizon Workrooms explain itself in the first minute? — “Remote collaboration…

Product Management

3 min read

Mar 26

My product management toolkit (50): Systems Design

A good few weeks ago I started learning about systems thinking. Thus far, I’ve learned that a system consists of parts that are interconnected. At its core, systems thinking is about identifying the different parts of a system and understanding the relationships between these parts. It’s funny that when you…

Product Management

4 min read

Mar 12

Compose AI (product review)

My summary of Compose AI before using it? I’ve heard that Compose AI is a good tool to help people compose their email, saving time in the process. How does Compose AI explain itself in the first minute? The strap-line on the Compose AI website reads “Write Faster With AI…

Machine Learning

3 min read

Mar 1

The IPO Playbook (Book Review)

Steve Cakebread is a CFO with a lot of experience in leading companies to Initial Public Offering (IPO). In his earlier career Cakebread worked at Autodesk, Silicon Graphics and Hewlett-Packard, after which he was involved in three successful IPOs, at Salesforce, Pandora and Yext respectively. In “The IPO Playbook” Cakebread…

IPO

5 min read

Feb 13

My product management toolkit (49): Systems Thinking tools & techniques

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the Systems Thinking discipline. My main learning point about Systems Thinking was the interconnectedness of the parts that make up a system. …

Product Management

5 min read

Feb 1

Shop Pay (Product Review)

My summary of Shop Pay before using it? Shopify’s new proprietary payment method. How does Shop Pay explain itself in the first minute? If I go to the Shop Pay website the first thing that I notice is that the site doesn’t mention Shop Pay. …

Shopify

3 min read

Jan 16

My product management toolkit (48): Systems Thinking

“No problem ever exists in complete isolation. Every problem interacts with every other problem and is therefore part of a set of interrelated problem, a system of problems.” Russell Ackoff Rusell Ackoff, pioneer in systems thinking, used to explain that “A system isn’t the sum of the behaviour of its…

Product Management

4 min read