Getting even more things done with Getting Things Done — Nearly everyone has heard of David Allen’s Getting Things Done, the world’s most successful productivity process, which sold 1.5 million copies as a book and which spawned a whole industry of productivity gurus. The process is quite prescriptive, and I summarise it below, but I’ve found one addition that can…

Would you want to earn 28% more money than you might? — As a teenager, my father joined a frozen food factory in their engineering department. Thirty years later he was still working in the frozen food industry and he’d changed employers just once during that time. In contrast, over the past twenty-two years, I’ve worked for seven different companies at an…

And what it means to their products — There are decisions we make in both our professional lives, and also in our personal one, which we’re not really sure why we make them, but we do. Usually, there’s a very good reason behind why, and there are folk more clever than you or I that have figured out…

Day-to-day and more strategically — When it comes to a product management team, sometimes you’ll come across the job title of Product Director (PD). Is this just a level up from a Product Manager (PM)? What extra tasks are they performing? Where is the extra responsibility? They aren’t present in every organization with a product…

What does is Product Ops in your company? — I read a post by Marty Cagan recently, where he identified six different types of Product Ops role, namely: The Reincarnated PMO Model The Two-in-a-Box PM Model The Delegated Product Leader Model Production Operations Rebranding Model The Product Marketing Manager Rebranding Model The Force Multiplier Model What is the difference…

What are those getting into product management careers asking? — Getting into a product career appears really challenging for many people, and this raises many questions. As part of my role at Getting Started in Product, I help people address their challenges, and below are a few of the questions I’ve seen recently and how I’d be looking to respond: …

Is it even possible? — When it comes to remote working, you don’t immediately think of product people as being one of the core roles for this, and as a Remote Work Report run by FYI showed, product management has a lower percentage of remote workers than almost every other category of role within a…

And it’s all about context — I bet that if you’ve got time to read this story then you definitely have a To-Do List. Assuming you do have a To-Do List, then you are the kind of person who likes to keep track of the things you need to sort out, however, often that means that…

The what, the how, and whether they are worth it — In the movie The Intern, seventy-year-old widower Ben Whittaker (played by Robert De Niro), applies for an intern position, as retirement has become too boring for him and he wants to learn some new skills. …