Craig Watson @craigwatsonuk

Passionate about Product Management and Business Agility. All views are my own. West Yorkshire, UK Joined April 2011

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Craig Watson @craigwatsonuk

2 years ago

Had a few conversations this week with colleagues who were being asked to deliver “feature parity” with either competitor products or their own legacy products. My initial reaction when any project is asking for “feature parity” is why ????!!

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Jonathan Smart @jonsmart

2 years ago

‘Every organisation is perfectly optimised to get the results it gets’. Are you happy with the results your team and organisation is getting? You can now read my blog on, to learn about how to focus on the Outcomes, rather than the output. buff.ly/46N8ssK #BVSSH

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Teresa Torres @ttorres

2 years ago

“Asking product teams to deliver specific features by specific dates is like asking a sales rep to close a specific deal on a specific date or a marketing team to get a set number of leads from a specific campaign.” - @ttorres bit.ly/44Xu0kK #prodmgmt #ux

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Jonathan Smart @jonsmart

2 years ago

Changing how we do change is hard. Better ways of working surfaces pain. You fix the pain. In absence of incentive, purpose, support & coaching, some teams give up. Overcoming impediments requires lots of support, persistence, determination, incentive and recognition. #BVSSH

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Craig Watson @craigwatsonuk

2 years ago

The agile coin game is a great way to bring this principle to life. Never ceases to amaze participants.

Jonathan Smart @jonsmart

2 years ago

The agile coin game is a great way to bring this principle to life. Never ceases to amaze participants.

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Jonathan Smart @jonsmart

2 years ago

Want to scale Agile? Don't. Continuously descale the work. Descaling the work IS scaling agility. Smaller teams, smaller increments of value, alleviating impediments to flow, breaking dependencies, with high alignment via OKRs, safety and minimal viable guardrails. #BVSSH

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Tim Checkley @timcheckley

3 years ago

Product Management is an inherently cross-functional discipline. As at YouTube last week, we’re seeing CPOs becoming CEOs. “Product-Led Growth” is the buzzword at #ProductCon this year- that’s product people steering sales. So my question is: what’s the boundary of ‘Product’ now?

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Craig Watson @craigwatsonuk

3 years ago

This is so crucial.

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Product School @productschool

3 years ago

"Make sure you're reducing the space between the team and the final users" Katie Cummings LIVE at #productcon

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Craig Watson @craigwatsonuk

3 years ago

Enjoying the talks at #productcon

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Tim Ottinger @tottinge

3 years ago

"We have to do this, it's on the backlog and we spent a bunch of time on it." "We can't sell this car, we've spent too much on repairs." "We have to eat this overcooked food; we spent so much time making it!" Sunk cost is a pain.

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Sam @sambhigham

4 years ago

In reality, it's less of a Double-Diamond... More of a Quadruple-Squiggle-Mess... I get that's less catchy, and not as neat. But neither is the work.

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Craig Watson @craigwatsonuk

4 years ago

The importance of asking WHY? Understanding the problem situation or the opportunities you're trying to exploit is essential. Also keeping them front and centre throughout the change.

Allen Holub. https://linkedIn.com/in/allenholub @allenholub

4 years ago

The importance of asking WHY? Understanding the problem situation or the opportunities you're trying to exploit is essential. Also keeping them front and centre throughout the change.

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Sam @sambhigham

4 years ago

Product Roadmaps are tricky. Dates? Features? Gaant charts? Here are 7 tweets about Roadmapping that might help. (feat. @johncutlefish, @KentBeck, @allenholub, @shreyas, @lennysan, @natfriedman & @simplybastow) 👇

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Allen Holub. https://linkedIn.com/in/allenholub @allenholub

4 years ago

Was asked for recommendations on a tool that lets you view all your dependencies. That’s the wrong question. The right one is: how do I reduce all dependencies to the point that I don’t need to map them (or eliminate them altogether)?