Systems Thinking for Product Managers: Viable System Model (VSM)

How applying the Viable System Model (VSM) to Product Management can help define system boundaries and identify structural weaknesses.

Apr 7 • Product Breaks and James Lilwall

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March 2026

Five ways a PM can dramatically improve team culture

How do we make our teams a great place to be, while also securing better product outcomes?

Mar 11 • Product Breaks and Ellen Haggan

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Nobody Decided Anything in That Meeting

How alignment actually gets built — and why it’s rarely in the room you think

Mar 5 • Ekaete Inyang

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February 2026

Turning build speed into product progress

AI tools compress execution risk, but Product-Market Fit doesn't care how fast you ship. Here's how to turn velocity into progress.

Feb 24 • Tim Scudder

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Encoding organisational decisions for the agentic age - part two

Your organisation's content was written for people. Agents need something different. This second post looks at what changes when content becomes…

Feb 17 • Tim Scudder

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Designing for Uncertainty: Product in the AI Era

Four reflections from my first foray into building AI products

Feb 10 • Product Breaks and Alice MacAskill

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Encoding organisational decisions for the agentic age - part one

How might agentic AI change the way we express strategy through policies, guidelines and skills? In this first post of a new series, I set the scene.

Feb 9 • Tim Scudder

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Lean thinking for Evals

A practical mental model for AI product quality.

Feb 2 • Tim Scudder

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January 2026

New to Agentic AI? Start here.

Learnings from a first AI build

Jan 28 • Product Breaks and Sophie Watson

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Product Discovery is messy. These five techniques help me to stay in control.

Bring a delivery mindset to discovery work, without killing the creativity

Jan 6 • Product Breaks and Kevin Jarvis

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December 2025

The Best Products I Used This Year

And What They Taught Me About Craft

Dec 17, 2025 • Product Breaks and Chino

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The importance of a fast start

The excitement (and vulnerability) of new beginnings

Dec 9, 2025 • Product Breaks and Euan Muir

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