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Weekly briefings
Product Briefing – April 20th, 2023
Netflix gets cold feet and Reddit flicks the API monetization switch.
Plus: a new tool for distraction free productivity, Shopify’s CEO on micromanagement and how to become more commercial
Product Briefing – April 13th, 2023
Music labels fight AI voice clones and the next big TikTok trend
Plus: a new product to integrate passwordless authentication, user testing gets ML friction detection and Facebook’s 10 year roadmap revisited
Product Briefing – April 6th, 2023
Tinder’s super subscription and goodbye Spotify Live. Plus: a new product to collate feedback, Amazon’s drone woes and a tool for the async-first teams of the future
Product Briefing – 30th March, 2023
Apple’s AR rebellion and Zoom’s new feature for the punctually-challenged
Product Briefing – 23rd March, 2023
Notion’s new Buttons, Adobe’s Firefly and the end of programming?
Product Briefing – 16th March, 2023
Apple’s new Music app, GPT-4 and the end of NFTs? Plus: GitLab earnings disappoint, Grammarly gets new AI writing capabilities and Meta employees share their experiences.
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How to Agree Ways of Working as a Product Team
Things feel a little stale. You’re stuck in a bit of a rut. The team’s energy isn’t quite what it used to be. And you’re not able to quite pinpoint exactly what has led you to feel this way. This can – and probably will – happen to all product teams at some point. A ways of working session might be just what you need to get you back up and running, feeling energised and rebooted.
Radical product strategy
In 2011 when I founded Likelii, we had a clear vision: To make it easier and fun for wine enthusiasts to find wines they were likely to like. But despite having a clear vision, I had caught what I now call the Iteration Epidemic where we try to copy the success of companies that found their success through iteration, trying one strategy after another to find the nirvana of product-market fit.
How to measure product market fit
As we look to challenge ourselves to make the best decisions possible, we often judge our decision making skills on the outcomes we achieved. This isn’t quite right since the outcome itself will always be unpredictable; the results achieved are different to the decision making process which led to a decision being taken. This is known as ‘resulting’ – where you assess the quality of your decision by the outcome it achieved.
Managing UX debt
Why tension between product designers and managers is healthyI was recently asked by a colleague what I found to be the most challenging aspects of product management. Without much thought, I blurted out a response which surprised me a little. ‘Managing the...
Tools for making better product decisions
A good decision can lead to bad results, but so long as the steps you took to make that decision were sound, you can sleep safe at night knowing that you took the best action based on what you knew at the time.
How to run Product Strategy Workshops
Practical ways to get the most out of workshops Creating (and sometimes attending) workshops can be both a fun and stressful experience. When a group of humans are put into a room full of post it notes with no structure for hours on end with no set agenda or purpose,...
Crafting Ecommerce Product Strategies
How the customer lifecycle can help structure your product strategy The business of ecommerce With Amazon gobbling up almost 50% of ecommerce sales in the US, traditional high street retail in steady decline and paid online customer acquisition...
Why Products Fail
Agile and the fail fast culture prioritise failing as a means of learning as quickly as possible and moving onto the next experiment. It rewards failure – and actively encourages it as a mechanism to learn what works and what doesn’t. Not everyone is a fan.
4 Meetings to Master as a Product Manager
Whilst there are a number of different meetings we have to deal with on a day to day basis, some meetings tend to be more stressful than others. Here’s our guide to optimizing your meetings.
3 Ways to Develop a Metrics Oriented Mindset
Get yourself into the habit of continuously asking yourself, the product team and the wider business how you will measure feature requests and upcoming product developments.