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Your product team captures insights every week. The problem? They rarely make it back into decisions. Knowledge flow is just one of the weak spots we uncovered. Download the full report 'What's blocking product teams?' here: https://lnkd.in/erbqqVQi

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If you’re in product, design, or engineering, conferences are one of the highest-leverage ways to accelerate your craft and your network. A quick scan of the UK tech conference scene is a reminder of how much value is packed into a well-chosen event calendar. From product strategy to hands-on engineering practice, the best conferences consistently deliver three things: 1) Perspective you can’t get from a feed Talks that compress years of real-world learning into 30 minutes. You leave with sharper mental models, not just inspiration. 2) Practical patterns you can reuse Monday morning Workshops and case studies that move beyond theory: delivery approaches, research methods, platform decisions, and leadership lessons you can adapt to your context. 3) Community that compounds over time The hallway track matters. The people you meet, especially outside your usual circle, often become collaborators, hires, mentors, or customers later. A few ways I’ve seen teams maximise ROI from conferences: - Attend with intent: align attendance to 1–2 strategic themes (e.g., platform modernization, product discovery maturity, AI/ML enablement) - Capture and share: write a short internal brief or do a “lunch & learn” on return, turn one ticket into org-wide learning - Follow up fast: the week after is when relationships stick, book those coffees while the energy is high Given the pace of change in our industry, learning in public isn’t optional anymore, it’s part of the job. What are the conferences you rate most highly for product, design, and engineering? And what made them stand out? Drop your recommendations 👇

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CREATING VALUE vs BUILDING A PRODUCT - For founders and product managers this quote from Marty Cagan is the bedrock to productive business activity... there has been a weird trend in the last 20 years shifting from LISTEN then BUILD to BUILD then SELL! You notice this marked difference evolving as the ability to build digital products has become easier. There is no "holy grail" product in any industry that will sell itself... there is only VALUE-driven building that leads to organic sales growth! Agree or disagree?

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Ever wonder what product teams are doing all day?? 🤔 ...Here's a great visual of The Struggle from Ed Biden! My thoughts 👇 I would also expand on the importance of the upfront Ideation and Prioritization phases. Without the right amount of rigor here (read 'analytics, insight sources, biz metric alignment') you will have a lot of wasted cycles and quickly lose trust & velocity from downstream dev teams. Also very cool to note that THIS IS A CIRCULAR, REPEATING CYCLE of continuous learning and iteration from both your winners and losers (post go-live). Cheers 🥂 #ProductManagement #ProductStrategy #ProductDevelopment #Agile #ContinuousImprovement #Leadership

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📌 Create Clarity with a One-Slide Product Summary 📌   Features often mean different things to different stakeholders. That ambiguity slows teams down.   In this How I PM episode, Adam Race, Head of Product at ITV, shares how he uses a single slide to create clarity around what a feature is, where it appears, its current status, and the metric it is meant to move. His approach helps: 1. Reduce stakeholder confusion 2. Keep updates lightweight and shareable 3. Anchor conversations in outcomes, not interpretations 🎥 Watch now: https://lnkd.in/eirn6Qzu   #ProductManagement #Agile #TeamAlignment #Leadership #HowIPM

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We’re delighted to welcome Radhika Dutt, product leader, founder, and author of Radical Product Thinking, for a deep dive into her newest work: the OHLA (formerly OHL) Toolkit. In this episode, Radhika joins Matt and Moshe to challenge how product teams set goals, measure progress, and use frameworks, proposing a puzzle‑driven alternative to traditional OKRs and “framework-following” culture. Drawing from her journey from electrical engineering and startups at MIT, through painful “product diseases” like Hero Syndrome and Obsessive Sales Disorder, Radhika shares why recipes and templates alone don’t create real progress. Instead, she introduces OHLA as a lightweight but powerful way to cultivate a Jedi mindset, one that keeps teams grounded in first principles, context, and learning rather than chasing vanity metrics and rigid targets. Join Matt, Moshe, and Radhika as they explore: 👉 Radhika’s path from engineering and founding to Radical Product Thinking and now the OHLA Toolkit 👉 Why classic goal‑setting and OKRs often backfire, creating “alibi progress,” outdated goals, and incentives to hide bad news 👉 OHLA in practice: 👉 👉 Observe – what’s really happening in your product, team, or market 👉 👉 Hypothesize – what might explain it and how you’ll test those ideas 👉 👉 Learn – what the results actually tell you 👉 👉 Adapt – how you’ll change course based on evidence 👉 “Puzzle setting” vs goal setting: defining puzzles with Observation, Open Questions, and an Objective summary to stay longer in the problem space 👉 How OHLA complements design thinking by forcing teams to remain curious and uncomfortable before jumping into solutions 👉 Practical stories, from maritime platforms to enterprise teams, where puzzle thinking led to very different solutions than OKR‑driven targets 👉 How managers can shift conversations from “Did we hit the number?” to “How well did it work? What did we learn? What will we try next?” 👉 A realistic path to transition: starting with your own puzzle, then introducing OHLA within your immediate sphere of influence 👉👉 And much more! 🎧 Listen now on your favorite podcasting platform: Spotify: https://lnkd.in/duEycTbF Apple Podcasts: https://lnkd.in/dMiNzsGe YouTube: https://lnkd.in/dXeKiBeg Amazon Music: https://lnkd.in/dZQn84eE Spreaker: https://lnkd.in/d-iKG8x7 ⚠ Note: any views mentioned in the podcast are the sole views of our hosts and guests, and do not represent the products mentioned in any way. Please leave us a review and feedback 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟

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In a world full of uncertainty, product leaders don’t need crystal balls—they need clarity. In this video, Brainmates CEO Adrienne Tan shares the three artefacts that build confidence and guide better decisions when the path gets foggy. #Productmanagement

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New episode 🎙️with Hadas Sheinfeld (founder of “The Guild for Product Managers”) on breaking PM loneliness, separating signal from noise under pressure, and why most problems are people & process—not “one more feature.” We cover lots of other nuggets and real life lessons from her career in companies like Google, Clicktale, Datagen and more. Spotify: https://lnkd.in/dDXt3fcg Youtube: https://lnkd.in/d8HrrgcJ Apple: https://lnkd.in/dGUykYKm #ProductManagement #Leadership #Prioritization #Community #PMCareers

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The State of Product Ops Report: 2025 🎊 This was incredibly popular before, so why not do it again! So pleased to be returning as commentator on the latest edition of the State of Product Ops Report, alongside respected Product Ops leaders Clare Hawthorne, Chris Butler and Topher F. 😇 Here are just some of the standouts for me: ⏳ “Businesses do not need Product Ops people, but they do need to focus their time and energy on Product Ops - though often this translates into dedicated people or portions of other staff’s time." Graham Reed 🚀 “The lack of clarity in Product Ops roles is persistent because the function is highly context-dependent. The needs of a growth-stage SaaS company, a mature service-based business, or an enterprise operating at scale can vary widely.” Clare Hawthorne 🪴 "Product ops thrives when it emphasizes collaborative systems that support innovation, not just execution" Chris Butler 🏆 “Identify your champions: test early and often with them -- in fact, treat them as design partners in some cases." Topher F. Link in comments

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Do you already know about the AJTBD framework? Personally, I find it really powerful—especially for figuring out how to build into a flow that people already have and for calculating the economics based on the value and frequency of the jobs we want to pursue.

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An MVP is often misunderstood as a reduced version of a product. In reality, it’s a strategic approach to validating demand before scaling development. Focusing on a single core outcome allows teams to reduce risk and build with clarity.

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If your roadmap ends at “ship it”, you’re not delivering... you’re hoping. Our 2025 PM Maturity data shows something uncomfortable: Deliver is the most important product capability… and one of the weakest. Teams are great at discovery. They can explain the problem. But after launch? Metrics get fuzzy. Learning slows down. Outcomes go unclaimed. In this webinar, we’ll break down: Where execution quietly breaks after shipping Why adoption, measurement, and end-of-life decisions get skipped What high-maturity product teams do differently to close the loop Because delivery isn’t about speed. It’s about proving impact. Save your seat and close the delivery gap. 👉 https://bit.ly/4aQYCLd

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What makes a product team greater than the sum of its parts? I've seen both high-performing teams and dysfunctional groups up close. The difference isn't just about having star players—it's about how people work together. In my latest post, I share practical approaches to transform product groups into high-performing teams. Link to the blog post (and my website Crescendo Product Group) in the comments below. What team-building strategies have worked for you?

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Like all good product folk, before Tim was shaping roadmaps, he was sitting face to face with customers. Not theory. Not slides. Real conversations, real questions, real feedback 👀 In the latest Beyond Boundaries episode, Matt Connolly from Sønr gets the story from Tim von Dadelszen, Chief Product Officer at Simfuni and it starts right at the beginning: Tim as a face to face adviser, and then the internet arriving and slowly changing everything. Websites were basically brochures. Online journeys were not really a thing yet. Then expectations started shifting. This opening is a great scene setter because it explains why Tim talks about product the way he does: ✅ Start with how people behave, not how systems are organised ✅ Make it clearer for customers, not just “more digital” ✅ Keep the real world consequences in view, even when the platform work gets heavy ▶️ Full episode: https://lnkd.in/eMsX7gv2 📧 Want to get involved in Beyond Boundaries 2026? Reach out at hello@sonr.global #MarketIntelligence #TechScouting #Insurance #Innovation #BeyondBoundaries #InsurtechNZ #InsurtechAustalia InsurTechNZ Simfuni Insurtech Australia

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⚡ 𝐈𝐧 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐞𝐝𝐠𝐞. So why are product teams still drowning in ticket triage while million-dollar ideas rot in the backlog? Ideas age. Momentum dies. Revenue slips away. Because every day a hypothesis sits in backlog, you’re paying compound interest on indecision. 📖 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐕𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 challenges that status quo and shows how to: • Turn customer complaints into a growth engine • Multiply the volume of test-ready ideas • Stay ahead by learning faster than competitors 👉 𝐃𝐨𝐰𝐧𝐥𝐨𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐞𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐰 ⬇️ #ProductManagement #Experimentation #Growth #ABTesting #AI

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