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Paul Brown

Avoid the RICE Trap: How Smart PMs Win Customer and Business Impact

RICE keeps teams busy. BRICE helps make product managers credible.

3h ago

Avoid the RICE Trap: How Smart PMs Win Customer and Business Impact

3h ago

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Paul Brown

The Success Trap: How Winning Teams Get Stuck (and What to Do About It)

Success isn’t the advantage you think — it’s a trap. Teams optimise for past wins, stop adapting, and lose when the game changes. Escape…

Mar 15

The Success Trap: How Winning Teams Get Stuck (and What to Do About It)

Mar 15

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Paul Brown

The Success Tax: Why Teams Overpay for Bad Ideas (And How to Stop)

Teams waste millions — not on bad ideas, but by committing too soon. The Success Tax is real. Here’s how to stop overpaying it.

Mar 9

The Success Tax: Why Teams Overpay for Bad Ideas (And How to Stop)

Mar 9

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Nick Brown

No, you haven’t made your team more “predictable” 🙄

Empirically showing why improving say-do (forecasted vs completed) ratio per sprint is not making a team more “predictable”.

Mar 2

No, you haven’t made your team more “predictable” 🙄

Mar 2

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Nick Brown

Cycle Time Correlations

How well do different flow-based metrics correlate with Cycle Time? What should we look at and what should we ignore?

Mar 4

Cycle Time Correlations

Mar 4

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Paul Brown

Smart Product Teams Keep Their Options Open — Here’s How

Bad product decisions don’t just slow you down — they haunt your future. Here’s why premature commitment is killing your product…

Feb 12

Smart Product Teams Keep Their Options Open — Here’s How

Feb 12

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Nick Brown

Signal vs Noise: How Process Behaviour Charts can enable more effective Product Operations

How to enable more effective product operations data and insights by reducing noise, spotting the real signals and focusing on outcomes.

Feb 24

Signal vs Noise: How Process Behaviour Charts can enable more effective Product Operations

Feb 24

Paul Brown

The Success Delusion: Why Teams Stop Thinking Once They Ship

Teams celebrate launches like success is guaranteed. But the real impact unfolds months later — if anyone thought to check…

Mar 1

The Success Delusion: Why Teams Stop Thinking Once They Ship

Mar 1

Paul Brown

Why ‘Better’ Products Fail: The Hidden Forces That Drive (or Kill) Adoption

“Better” doesn’t drive adoption — ease, safety, and familiarity do. Reduce friction, make switching inevitable, and adoption follows…

Feb 22

Why ‘Better’ Products Fail: The Hidden Forces That Drive (or Kill) Adoption

Feb 22

Paul Brown

You’re Measuring Value Wrong — And It’s Costing You

Most businesses think they deliver value — yet they think in costs. Here’s how to measure & deliver real value where it truly matters…

Feb 16

You’re Measuring Value Wrong — And It’s Costing You

Feb 16

Thrivve Partners

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Paul Brown

Data-informed but evidence-led Product & Flow Practitioner • ProKanban trainer • Data geek • Lifelong learner and a big believer in people 🇮🇪

Tony Marklove

Nick Brown

Principal Flow Consultant @ Thrivve Partners | https://www.nicolasbrown.co.uk | Creator of FlowViz

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