Product Development

Why Frameworks Still Matter

... and always have for high-performing product teams

Sep 30, 2025 • Chris Compston

Product Management Busy Work is Over

New AI tools are lifting the weight, but PMs still have to lead towards outcomes

Jul 15, 2025 • Chris Compston

Starting the Right Way

The most successful product development teams not only have great experience and capabilities, but a deep understanding of what customer problems they…

Apr 4, 2025 • Chris Compston

A Good Engineer is a Busy Engineer Right?

If we want high-performing teams, they need to be truly empowered

Aug 23, 2024 • Chris Compston

Embracing Product Ops

For the past decade I’ve been hearing from …

Oct 24, 2023 • Chris Compston

Golden Product Questions

The most successful product development teams not only have great experience and capabilities, but the deep understanding of what customer…

Sep 20, 2021 • Chris Compston

A Guide to Effective Retrospectives

Reflecting with purpose - a guide on how to organise and facilitate team retrospectives for realistic positive change.

Mar 25, 2020 • Chris Compston

Reframing Product Versions

Moving teams from output- to outcome-focused requires a step change in understanding and internally publicizing what product versions mean

Jun 27, 2019 • Chris Compston

A guide to effective feature critiques

Running feature design critiques for truly valuable feedback.

Apr 11, 2019 • Chris Compston

Keeping Agile design on track

Design iteration is great if there’s a product vision to pin the flag to.

Apr 3, 2019 • Chris Compston

We need to talk about Design Sprints

Everyone seems to be doing ‘Design Sprints’ and proclaiming the life changing techniques and evangelical product output they’ve achieved.

Mar 29, 2019 • Chris Compston

One hour collaborative workshop framework

Whether there’s a need for introducing, or even practising, collaborative cross functional team ideation or tackling a small but…

Mar 17, 2019 • Chris Compston

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