Archive - Product Breaks

Systems Thinking for Product Managers: Soft Systems Methodology (SSM)

How applying Soft Systems Methodology to Product Management can help you understand complex socially rooted problems.

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April 2025

How to Unlock What Really Matters for you, your team, your org, your customers and your country.

Apr 29 •

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Navigating the Strategy Fog

How to thrive when direction from leadership is unclear

Apr 22 •

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Space for serendipity: how to embrace the unknown in product planning

Why a little chaos is a very good thing

Apr 8 •

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Introducing the Roadmap Randomiser™: The Future of Product Management

Let chaos theory determine your next quarter's priorities

Apr 1 •

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March 2025

The Map-Maker's Daughter: Navigating the complex world of Product through mapping

Simple, actionable mapping techniques for Product Managers tackling complexity

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AI and Product Management - Get Stuck In

Tips for getting to grips with how AI will change the product manager role

Mar 19 •

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Traffic Cones & Time Travel: A Good Strategy Survival Guide

How to set a strategy that holds up even when the world gets crazy

Mar 4 •

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Richard Williams

February 2025

Got Framework FOMO? Here’s Why You Should Stop Searching for the Perfect Process

Exploring why popular product management frameworks and processes can fail and how to find what actually works for your team.

Feb 25 •

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Begin at the End

Product failures or mis-steps can be costly in time, budget, and reputation. That’s why the working backwards method is so valuable in corporate or…

Feb 19 •

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The missing piece: Reconnecting product teams with their purpose

Purpose is often overlooked, yet it can be what separates feature factories from high-performing teams. Drifting teams lose focus, but a clear purpose…

Feb 11 •

Charlotte Chiguri

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Product Manager SOS: Advice for the Overwhelmed & Ambitious

Welcome to Product Manager SOS, where we asked our peers their most burning product woes with a mix of empathy, strategy, and no-nonsense advice.

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