Don’t Cave to Conway’s Law

Stop letting your org chart design your product

Dec 3 • 

Product Breaks

 and 

Izzy Watson

4

November 2025

10 short notes on leadership

Some quick thoughts on a big topic

Nov 25 • 

Harriet May

5

1

The Start-up to Scale-up Tipping Point

The Case for Fractional Product Leaders

Nov 12 • 

Erin Kyle

 and 

Charlotte Chiguri

1

Stop Experimenting. Start Deciding

It’s important to be data-driven, but teams have to be careful that it doesn’t become a crutch. Here’s my take on why simply protecting your KPIs might…

Nov 4 • 

Ekaete Inyang

5

2

October 2025

What the 5% Get Right

Deploying GenAI and Driving Profits

Oct 28 • 

Product Breaks

 and 

John Roberts

2

1

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

8

1

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

6

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

2

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

6

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