Published inIngeniously Simple·Jan 8, 2021Redgate Code Club 2.0Back in March 2020 as schools in the UK closed, we started a weekly online code club for kids. 800 students and 1500 hours of learning later we finished up for the Summer… This week our UK based staff headed back into lockdown, with our kids home from school again…Code Club2 min readCode Club2 min read
Jan 4, 2021Remote First Product LeadershipFor obvious reasons, 2020 saw us pivot away from our office bases to adopting remote-first work practices. Inspired by this tweet by @shreyas, here are some of the changes we’ve made to start to build a remote-first product leadership function. Strategy and Vision Over-communication has been the name of the game here. Jeff…Product Management3 min readProduct Management3 min read
Published inIngeniously Simple·Jul 14, 2020Code Club End of Term ReportWe made it. July 17th is the last day of the school year so as of this week, Code Club is out for Summer. Since our first practice session on 26th March, 25 Redgaters from right across the business have delivered over 1500 hours of learning. We’ve had students from…2 min read2 min read
Apr 14, 2019How I stopped myself pitching during research callsWe’re currently running a high rate of research calls in my teams. A 45 minute conversation and follow up session every day is about normal for the last quarter. The frequency has allowed me to focus on something I’ve wanted to improve about my own practice for some time. Research…Product Management2 min readProduct Management2 min read
Apr 9, 2019Sprint demos are a measure of team healthThe output of the sprint demo is the customer value delivered, but the goal of the session is very different. I’ve been on teams that demo every sprint, teams that demo if they have something they think stakeholders will care about, and some that don’t demo at all. I’ve come to realise that the value in the demo is not the opportunity to update stakeholders. …Agile2 min readAgile2 min read
May 22, 2018Discovery for Established ProductsOne of the first things you do as a PM joining an existing product team is to assess the lay of the land. Get to know the team, understand the current roadmap and priorities. …Product Management3 min readProduct Management3 min read
Jul 6, 2017The case for the Unavailable PMThis post is a response to Embrace the Interruptions over on the Aha! PM blog. It really resonated with me, and on further reflection over the last week I realised that it’s only half the story. As much as I embrace the interruptions, taking the time to be unavailable is…Product Management3 min readProduct Management3 min read
Oct 16, 2015Should we ban mobile phones in school?It seems that the hardest part of writing any research is coming up with a good title. Earlier this month King & Baatartogtokh published a paper examining the theory of disruptive innovation that was made famous in the book The Innovators Dilemma. They found (8 years after publication..) that less…Education Technology3 min readEducation Technology3 min read
Oct 16, 2015IFTTT Do & the slow death of the digital cameraI’ve been playing with the new IFTTT camera app and it got me thinking about how the original camera app on my iPhone isn’t as useful as it used to be. After all, it’s just a camera app. If I want it to actually do anything with the photo I’ve…Photography3 min readPhotography3 min read
May 19, 2014Iterate or Redesign?On design and change management — Image courtesy of core77.com: http://bit.ly/1hXczCx Your work is out in the world, but you keep thinking of ways to improve it. Maybe your clients have got ideas to make it better. Or perhaps priorities have shifted and what you thought was important at the start is less so now. The…2 min read2 min read
