I made some changes to the way I clean my flat a couple of months ago: scaling back on the number of products I use, mixing my own cleaners from bulk-bought ingredients, and buying most of the rest from an enlightened manufacturer I want to support. …

The whole Waterfall vs Agile comparison is a sham. It isn’t two competing ways of doing things. The Waterfall approach has never had serious support — not even from the inventor of the concept. So many blogs, tweets and Medium posts about Agile have drawn the comparison over recent years…

So it’s done. After several weeks of reading a 19-page PDF file over and over, taking practice tests and reading countless blog posts, you can now, officially, call me master. Scrum Master. I got certified! I’d have thought that would have come from the day job, where I work on…

What’s the value exchange between me and Google? Not to sound pompous, but this is one of the governing questions of my online life. But I didn’t give it a second thought until I noticed a few disappearing yellow stars. Do you know about the cult of the stars, flags…

I spend around 10 minutes a day on Duolingo and I’m not convinced it’s worth it. And the fact these doubts only started occurring to me after I completed a 100 day streak on this maddeningly well-designed and moreish app is… annoying. Admittedly, 10 minutes a day isn’t a massive…

“Being a product manager means that you have a lot of responsibility, but no authority.” This simple statement has the ring of truth to me. I found it in Matt LeMay’s really useful book, ‘Product Management Fundamentals’. Here’s how I feel about the responsibility/authority divide. A good product manager multitasks…

Agency/client relationships are getting ever more fraught these days: you only had to look at this week’s announcement from WPP that its sales are taking a big whack, and ominous signals from big advertisers like P&G that they wish to “reinvent” their agency relationships — which will, safe to say…

Aside from my day-to-day tasks as a product manager, my big work project over the past year has been WARC’s new Future of Strategy report, which I conceived, researched and (finally) wrote. …

Kudos to APG London for its new Thinking Around Corners series of events, one of which I attended the other week. The format’s simple, get three strategists in a room, and get their advice on cracking some challenging briefs. The standout for me was a problem that’s always bedevilled advertisers…