[Originally posted as part of my regular Newsletter here] We’ve all been there. We’ve defined an MVP and moved a bunch of functionality to V2, but once we’ve launched we immediately moved on to the next thing. V2 never comes. Often referred to as feature factories or the build trap…

[This post was originally published here: https://www.antmurphy.me/newsletter/story-telling-for-product-managers] What if I told you that you’re already a great storyteller? Well, more specifically, you already have a lot of great stories to tell. Truth is, we all have loads of stories but where we struggle is packaging those stories up into something…

[FYI this was originally published in my newsletter 👉https://www.antmurphy.me/newsletter/the-messy-nature-of-product-development] Building products is messy, uncertain, and non-linear. I’ve always found trying to explain this to someone who hasn’t experienced it difficult. There are the typical ‘Dual Track’ pictures trying to depict this:

[FYI this was originally published in my newsletter 👉https://www.antmurphy.me/newsletter/okrs-vs-kpis] You might be wondering; “what is the difference between KPIs and OKRs?” I get this question regularly — and it seems OKRs have become quite the hot topic for me of late. …

“Leadership is language” — L. David Marquet The words we use matter. You may not think much of using terms like “resources” rather than “people” or “I” vs “we” but at a subconscious level these words start to infiltrate our minds. …

FYI this was originally published on my site as part of my regular newsletter. You can read it here (no paywall) When I’ve helped organisations become more outcome/product orientated, more often than not, I’ve moved them away from ‘epics’ and ‘user stories’ and towards things like one-pagers, opportunities, hypotheses, etc. …

(FYI this was originally published as part of my newsletter — subscribe here https://www.antmurphy.me/) We all want to maintain a competitive advantage long into the future but doing so becomes increasingly hard as competition grows and markets become saturated. This is where ‘moats’ come in. You might have heard of…

(originally published at antmurphy.me subscribe and read free there — https://www.antmurphy.me/blog/2022/06/22/6-key-enablers-of-agility-from-the-book-team-of-teams) The first rule of scaling agile is DON’T. Instead, descale the work and organisation instead. But how? you ask. Naysayers will shout, “You’ll never get a large organisation to behave like a startup!” One of the best books on…

This is 1 of 3 frameworks for building a Stakeholder Engagement Strategy taught in the Stakeholder Management Essentials Course on Product Pathways. How Does it Work? Use the following Stakeholder Map, which categorizes your Stakeholders by involvement into 3 categories: CORE Stakeholders DIRECT Stakeholders …