Systems Thinking for Product Managers: Critical Systems Heuristics (CSH)

How applying Critical Systems Heuristics (CSH) to Product Management can help identify assumptions, boundaries and power dynamics.

Oct 7 • 

Product Breaks

 and 

James Lilwall

7

September 2025

A Crash Course on Lagging and Leading Metrics

Definitions, pitfalls and pragmatic suggestions for harnessing the complementary powers of lagging and leading metrics

Sep 30 • 

Product Breaks

 and 

Ellen Haggan

5

Product Strategy as a Living Conversation

How to choose the right problems, empower teams, and achieve meaningful outcomes

Sep 23 • 

Product Breaks

, 

Lu Scott

, 

Andrew Clark

, 

Heather Miles

, and 

Charlotte Chiguri

13

1

When Roadmaps Go Rogue

Some tips for how to re-plan in challenging circumstances in large-scale organisations

Sep 16 • 

Ruaridh Miller

3

The Duality of (Product) Man(ager)

Navigating the Push and Pull Between Strategy and Tactics

Sep 11 • 

Product Breaks

 and 

Euan Muir

7

August 2025

Little Fires Everywhere

Choosing which fires to fight as a Product Leader

Aug 26 • 

Heather Miles

5

1

The product manager’s antidote to “drive-by” feedback

Spend five minutes with this template to stay on top of stakeholder requests and avoid last minute surprises before launch.

Aug 5 • 

Product Breaks

 and 

Maia Gummer

4

July 2025

Finding Your Product IKIGAI

Designing with Purpose at the Core

Jul 29 • 

Product Breaks

 and 

Chino

3

Design Sprint revisited: Learnings for today's Product teams

Amid remote tools and AI hype, a familiar framework reminded me what good product practice looks like - momentum, real user insight and a space to…

Jul 22 • 

Product Breaks

 and 

Charlotte Chiguri

4

1

Slightly More Chaos, Slightly Less Control

Mid-year reflections from a PM trying to figure it out

Jul 8 • 

Product Breaks

 and 

Gala Jovanovic

5

June 2025

Build your House upon the Rock

Product Strategy as a Foundation for the Product Operating Model

Jun 24 • 

Erin Kyle

5

Navigating Product in Times of Strategic Flux

“Should we keep going? Pause? Wait for OKRs?” If that sounds familiar, you’re probably working through a strategy shift. Here’s how to lead through the…

Jun 17 • 

Ekaete Inyang

5