“Coffee and…”, your new meeting type for remote work

We’ve found a new meeting style at Keypath recently and it’s had some great feedback and value. Struggling as a team to complete simple non-cognitive tasks? Simple task list things which we’ve all been asked to do seem really difficult to pick up and actually complete? What we’ve found at Keypath is a new meeting […]

Entroponic’ cohort analysis

How does entropy effect your cohort analysis? If over time the shape of a user’s experience becomes less about their onboarding, and more about their general use, should after a while all cohorts become a general cohort, and it be less important when they on-boarded or when they signed up? Does that mean maybe after […]

Engagement is queen [god save the…]”

So as a product manager involved in designing our learning dashboard work around “actionable data by default”, I’m struggling with data events being so simple, and the learning design being so thorough. We want actionable data to allow a student and their tutor to take action and guide them towards more learning success. But if […]

Roadmaps are Rubbish and OKRs are OK

Advanced Product Management Part 3. Some really interesting concepts covered in this session. Roadmaps aren’t great – they can show things too far out for a truly agile company. They may be good as a fancy investor device but to work from, they aren’t Agile enough! Remember, “Working software over comprehensive documentation” Tbh. I’ve always […]

Spending minutes, not meetings

Why I really love Adobe Xd is I’m able to send product designs to the team and iterate on the design over a matter of minutes rather than meetings. Individuals and interactions over processes and tools https://agilemanifesto.org/ If you saw my last post you’ll know we’re designing a progress tracker for part-time post-graduate students. Here’s the […]

Advanced Product Management: Turning vision into Strategy

Just putting in to practice my learning from the APM module I’m taking. This is turning a product vision into a strategy. The problem, our students have full-time jobs and fit in their Masters level study around their lives and employment. This means doing short bursts of work, then feeding the kids, then returning the […]

Vision: “A vivid mental image, especially a fanciful one of the future”

Advanced Product Management recap for day 1. Well I was correct on how much talk there was going to be in this course! But to focus on the +ve’s. The course is demystifying what a vision is, and how I’m already partaking in vision work. It is demystifying what vision strategy is and how I’m […]

Advanced Product Management (Day 1)

Today is day 1 of the Advanced Product Management module on udemy. I’m hoping it’s a tonne better than their first module, “intro to PM” which was talking and taaaaalking. However, since this new intro started out as, “first we’ll talk about vision, then we’ll talk about…” we’ll see! Here’s the learning outcomes I’m aiming […]

Labour leadership contest

Welcome to my view on the Labour Leadership Race… Collating the word on my whatsapp it seems to be a choice between a suit, lady without the same presence as JC, or a sharp minded someone or other. Who should I vote for? This labour leadership election has left me nothing short of mixed. Keir […]

Labour as a multi faceted diamond and not a two-faced coin

I really hope this weekend Labour and Momentum were sitting at a table talking amicably about how to get in to power as a team. We need them to come together to find common ground and represent all Labour voters , activists, MPs and bring with them various positives, history and teams they have. Clearly […]