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A Product Manager's Guide to Negative Feedback
That major feature release has hit production. The team has been working for months, the code is solid, and you're cautiously optimistic…...

Product Sensei
Oct 8, 20254 min read


Empathy maps help build better products
Empathy maps are your secret weapon for building better software You've shipped a feature your team spent months building, only to...

Product Sensei
Oct 2, 20254 min read


Part 3 - Crossing The Threshold - The Hero's Journey for Product Discovery
This is the third of series where we are exploring how The ‘Hero’s Journey’ model used by the world’s greatest authors To read an...

Product Sensei
Sep 18, 20256 min read


Part 2 - The Refusal of the call & The Mentor - The Hero's Journey for Product Discovery
This is the second of series where we are exploring how The ‘Hero’s Journey’ model used by the world’s greatest authors To read an...

Product Sensei
Sep 17, 20253 min read


Part 1 - The Call to Adventure - The Hero's Journey for Product Discovery
This is the first of series where we are exploring how The ‘Hero’s Journey’ model used by the world’s greatest authors To read an...

Product Sensei
Sep 16, 20254 min read


The Hero's Journey: A Guide to Product Discovery
This may seem a little ‘left of field’ but hear me out: The ‘Hero’s journey’ used by the greatest storytellers and writers is a powerful...

Product Sensei
Sep 15, 20252 min read


Parity v Differentiation in the Market (POPs v PODs)
A (pea) POD navigating a sea of 'POPs' (Popcorn) POPs v PODs You know that feeling when you're looking at your product roadmap and...

Product Sensei
Sep 12, 20255 min read


Navigating Unplanned Work - The Game we Play
Sound familiar? An account manager has escalated, again. A "six-figure account" hangs in the balance, again. Three users from a major...

Product Sensei
Sep 11, 20254 min read


The Tin Roof on the Dunny
in Australian slang, a 'Dunny' is an old-fashioned toilet/outhouse commonly found on a farm. When I first started out in this crazy world...

Product Sensei
Sep 9, 20254 min read


Requirements 101 - The Gherkin Format
In today's post, let's go back to basics and look at a format for communicating requirements that has served Product Managers well over...

Product Sensei
Jun 9, 20255 min read


Apparently being polite to AI is causing the earth to melt…
There’s been an interesting click-bait-y debate making the rounds online lately: Should we be polite to AI tools like ChatGPT? Some argue...

Product Sensei
Jun 6, 20255 min read


The tale of potatoes seven ways...
In an ordinary town, not unlike any you have ever passed though, there lived a young chef named Lina. Lina had just opened her first...

Product Sensei
Jun 5, 20252 min read


The Chef - One of our many faces of product
The Chef: Making Magic With What You’ve Got “Let’s take the basics and make magic with what we’ve got.” In an ideal world, every...

Product Sensei
Jun 4, 20253 min read


'No' is only the start of a conversation
The Hidden Drivers Behind Stakeholder Complaints Stakeholders, whether they are from sales, marketing, or other business units, are...

Product Sensei
Jun 3, 20255 min read


Think like a Product Manager - The Thinking Hats
We all have sayings we don’t realise are sayings. As an Australian, we have a LOT in general. I was intrigued to find out one saying that...

Product Sensei
Jun 1, 20254 min read


SME's are NOT your default Product People!
The next time someone says, “Let’s just make the SME the product owner,” Respond with: “Let’s also make sure they’re equipped to think...

Product Sensei
May 30, 20256 min read


Case study - Finding value by looking beyond UI
A Mobile application where only a small part (The UI) is modern The below might seem like a complete ‘no-brainer’ but ask yourself, how...

Product Sensei
May 30, 20253 min read


The Farmer and the Falling Stars
A farmer looking up at the stars beyond his wheat field and home In a quiet valley surrounded by sun-soaked hills, lived a humble &...

Product Sensei
May 29, 20253 min read


The storyteller - One of our many faces of product
A portrait of a man reading from a book Our world of product is multi-faceted and, as product professionals, we all have different...

Product Sensei
May 28, 20253 min read


High Noon for Product Teams: How AI is Revolutionizing the Way We Build
As product professionals, we're constantly looking for ways to improve our skills, streamline processes, and deliver products...
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Apr 12, 20253 min read
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