Do you need to change your approach when you’re not in person? — Interviews used to be so easy. You put on a shirt and tie / dress and jacket. Turned up in the reception of your potential employer holding a paper copy of your CV. You were invited into a room and asked a series of questions, before shaking hands, leaving and…

And why it is doomed for failure — Since the start of the Covid pandemic, I, like many people, have vastly increased the amount of remote working that I’m doing. My office commute has changed from taking up 7 hours a week to being 1 hour every couple of weeks if I choose to go into the office…

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. …

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…