product

You’ve done security - now do experience

A secure product users hate won’t win. Treat experience like security - baked in from day one, not bolted on at the end.

Oct 08, 2025

Rewriting the hardware playbook - how software will reshape hardware product development

7 things every hardware company CTO should understand about the changing face of hardware product development.

Jul 30, 2025

Software as a differentiator - redefining value in hardware

The best hardware products have one thing in common - great supporting software. But as products get more niche, the software can often be a let down and a liability.

Jul 02, 2025

The Goldilocks Approach: finding the right balance between systemisation and speed

How much structure is too much? And how little is too little?

Apr 23, 2025

Driving your product modernisation with design thinking

Modernisation is an opportunity to go beyond updating infrastructure by radically reshape user experiences. Here's how design thinking and human-centred design can help on the modernisation journey.

Dec 13, 2024

Why are we modernising? Do we really have to?

Most software will eventually require updating but given the risks and costs associated is it necessarily the right thing to do now?

Dec 05, 2024

Why product design is critical to modern software delivery

User experience and design are crucial to helping products succeed. So why do we continue to undervalue or, at best, underestimate the effort required to craft winning user experiences?

Oct 08, 2024

Accelerating technical requirements with generative AI

How generative AI can be used to transform informal requirements into formal specifications using generative AI

Jul 30, 2024

Leveraging Kanban to enhance your product discovery

As a product team, it can be a challenge to ensure a steady flow of well-defined requirements into the development cycle. Without a structured process, backlogs can become overloaded with unrefined or incomplete ideas, leaving the team starved for work that is truly dev-ready and meaningful. In this blog post, we’ll look at how implementing a discovery Kanban board can bring structure, efficiency, and increased collaboration to the product development process.

May 29, 2024

The complexity of front-end development

Links to useful technical content, published every 2-3 weeks - this week we're talking front development

May 16, 2024

Why the product engineering mindset matters

This post marks the beginning of a series delving into the realm of product and product engineering. Here, we will explore the concept of ‘product engineering’ and why it’s an important term in helping shift the mindset of how modern products are built.

May 07, 2024

Scrum - reassessing the agile metaphor

Scrum as metaphor is used by agile teams across the software industry. The term has been borrowed from the sport of rugby, but just how far can we take this metaphor in software and how inter-connected are these 2 worlds - agile development and rugby. Here are a few thoughts and reflections on these inter-connections.

Oct 13, 2023