Tom Catnach in The Productive Product Manager

Layoffs and the future of tech jobs

There is a lot of doomerism about product, tech and design at the moment. I hardly go a day…

Tom Catnach in The Productive Product Manager

Jan 14

Two friends painting a kitchen — Dall-e generated image

Trust, trust proxies and team productivity

TLDR; PMs are often saddled with generating the proxies for trust within our…

Tom Catnach in The Productive Product Manager

Jan 1

Effective and Efficient Decision Making

TLDR; Don’t become distracted by future decisions that don’t deliver value right now.

Tom Catnach in The Productive Product Manager

Feb 19, 2023

Strategy in product — Quite different from a roadmap or a plan.

Tom Catnach in The Productive Product Manager

Feb 11, 2023

The Written Documents Framework — Or how to do less PowerPoint and justify it to your boss

Tom Catnach in The Productive Product Manager

Nov 28, 2022

Product hymn sheets — An approach to aligning stakeholders

Tom Catnach in The Productive Product Manager

Apr 10, 2022

A Product Manager’s road to burnout — The collaboration overhead problem and how to fix it

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Tom Catnach in The Productive Product Manager

Jan 4, 2022

The biggest myth about Slack — that it’s asynchronous

Tom Catnach in The Productive Product Manager

Dec 22, 2021

Simple habit changes for more productive mornings

Tom Catnach in The Productive Product Manager

Dec 12, 2021

Use your Slack status for remote deep work 🔵

TLDR; Set your slack icon to 🔵 and the message to Deep work - Back at about hh:mm

Now that we’re going back into WFH, I thought it would be worth covering a little tip for deep work from home.

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The Productive Product Manager

Here are my musings on trying to be a highly effective Product Manager. I’m aiming to cover specifically how to get and stay on top of the diverse workload that being a PM creates.

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