Instances where the five scrum ceremonies/events offer little value & should be stopped: ➡️ Sprint planning — scope is fixed on a piece of work for 4+ weeks e.g. migrations, upgrades, deprecation etc. Kanban makes more sense in this instance. ➡️ Daily scrum/Stand up — critical bug/issue the squad needs to work on debugging (let them get on with it!) ➡️ Sprint retro — the issues are consistent & well known to everyone. You’ve spoken about them multiple times in previous retro’s & they are not easy/quick fixes.

10 Reasons why product managers with a growth driven mindset will always exceed those without one. 1. Increased MRR 2. Design products in a more user friendly manner 3. Solve onboarding pains 4. Helps build products better experiences 5. Focus on adoption 6. Hypothesis/experimentation driven 7. Deeper focus on segmentation …

Products all product managers need to know #3 Storylane Helps Product Managers with: transitioning from a sales led model to product led! Being product led has never been easier with Storylane css/html web scraping technology helping you to create a dummy look a like of your web app on a…

Saying ‘no’ & pushing back is a key part of a product managers roles on a day to day basis. However, the word ‘no’ should be avoided & clear understandable rationale should be provided instead to your stakeholders. Here are a few examples 1. UX vs Dev trade off: As…

User discovery is the first and most critical step in bringing a product to life. However, throughout my career, I’ve found it to also be the most vastly misunderstood and under appreciated phase of the product development lifecycle. I’m not blaming Agile frameworks like Scrum and Kanban directly for this…

Products all product managers need to know #2 UXCam Helps PM with: seeing how users behave on their mobile application! Yes you you read that right! Imagine being able to see recording of every single user session on your application! (see link in comments) Mobile apps are far more complicated…

Finding product market fit in startups has never been easier… ➡️ With no code tools such as Bubble Airtable Zapier Notion etc which are game changers as you no longer require highly skilled & expensive developers to build out your application MVP. You can do this yourself! …

There are many different strands of product today. However, I have generally found two different types of product cultural mindsets: 1. The culture where you will never fulfil your products potential: ➡️ Roadmaps are for building features ➡️ Company wide pressure to deliver to commitment ➡️ Little bit of UX but engineering…

Products all product managers need to know #1… Canny ➡️ Helps PM’s with: Easy public roadmap creation & idea feedback (see example here) Many times in my career I’ve had discussions with fellow PM’s & the wider business about a public roadmap, however, these discussions never went anywhere due to…