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July 2025

Finding Your Product IKIGAI
Designing with Purpose at the Core
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Chino
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…
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Charlotte Chiguri
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Slightly More Chaos, Slightly Less Control
Mid-year reflections from a PM trying to figure it out
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Gala Jovanovic

June 2025

Build your House upon the Rock
Product Strategy as a Foundation for the Product Operating Model
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Erin Kyle
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…
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Ekaete Inyang
Product Management BUT on Hard Mode
Challenge Yourself to Go Further.
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Andrew Clark
How I nearly burned out as a Product Manager (and the six things that saved me)
Why doing a 'bad job' might be your best productivity hack, plus five other strategies to boost your resilience
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Kevin Jarvis

May 2025

Product for Platform Teams: Three Ways to Design for Adoption, Not Just Delivery
Bringing product thinking to internal platforms to drive real impact
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Alice MacAskill
Roadmapping: know your audience to gain their buy-in
As Product Managers, roadmaps can be useful to show a clear direction of travel towards your ‘north star’.
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Fred Banerji-Parker
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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James Lilwall
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