Writing & Articles

Thoughts on product strategy, systems thinking, forecasting, and theory of constraints in software development.

Fernand Braudel and Why Product Managers Focus on the Wrong Things

What product managers can learn from Fernand Braudel about events, trends, structures, AI, and long-term product strategy.

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Hammer and the Most Dangerous Question in Product Management

What product managers can learn from Michael Hammer, business process reengineering, and the danger of automating bad processes.

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Harari and the Power of Product Narratives

Why customers buy stories, not features, and what product managers can learn from Yuval Harari..

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Schumpeter, AI, and the Art of Creative Destruction

Why artificial intelligence is not just coming for jobs, but for business models, value chains, and product assumptions.

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Systems Thinking in Product Management

Using hard systems, soft systems, system dynamics, and critical systems thinking to make better product decisions.

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The myth of Data-Driven Product Management

E.H. Carr and the Myth of Data-Driven Product Management.

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Why Most Software Projects Fail Like a Tarantino Heist

What an old PhD thesis can teach product managers about systems thinking, requirements discovery and building the right thing

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Probabilistic Forecasting for Product Management

Why product and project managers should stop pretending single-date forecasts are certainty, and start using probability, feedback and better judgement.

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Theory of Constraints in Software Operations

Identifying and Optimising Bottlenecks

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