Good product teams are focused on rapidly delivering maximum value to their users. This post describes four factors that when kept to a minimum, enable teams to deliver more, more often and at a higher quality: cycle time, queues, work in progress and batch size. In this post, I explain what these four things are, […]
Cycle time, queues, work in progress and batch size – four things product teams need to reduce if they want to deliver more value faster
/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Alan WrightGood product teams are focused on rapidly delivering maximum value to their users. This post describes four factors that when kept to a minimum, enable teams to deliver more, more often and at a higher quality: cycle time, queues, work in progress and batch size. In this post, I explain what these four things are, […]
Being a product manager in a start-up vs the public sector (or big organisation vs small): what I have learned from the past year
/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Alan WrightJust over 1 year ago, I joined a climate tech start-up called Climate Policy Radar as employee #11 and their first product manager. Before that, I spent 8 years working in bigger organisations, mainly in the public sector (Government Digital Service, BBC, Land Registry) but also a bit in the private sector (Cazoo and Gameloft). In this […]
The value of user research
/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Alan WrightWhy we do user research and what we have learned so far When we started building Climate Policy Radar, we had lots of assumptions about who our users were and what solutions would help them. User research has helped us ensure our research tool meets the needs of the people we’re building it for – […]
How to run a daily stand-up
/0 Comments/in How to run meetings, Team Ways of Working /by Alan WrightIf you have ever worked with a software or agile team before, you have probably done a daily stand-up. In this blog post, I share my thoughts on why daily stand-ups are useful and some tips on how to run them well. About stand-ups What is a stand-up? Stand-ups are regular meetings for the team […]
Team manual and team charter – my two favourite workshops to run with new teams or teams with new members
/0 Comments/in How to run meetings, Team Ways of Working /by Alan WrightWhen a new team is formed or an existing team goes through change, it is important to take some time for team members to learn more about who each other are and how best to work together. In this post, I summarise my two favourite workshops to help teams get off to a good start: […]
Splitting one product team into two
/0 Comments/in Team Ways of Working /by Alan WrightThis blog post explains why and how we (Climate Policy Radar) decided to split from one big product team into two smaller teams. The problem with working as one big team As the team grew in size, we found it increasingly difficult to do everything together as a whole team. Meetings took a long time […]
Tracking our product’s user lifecycle funnel in Google Analytics
/0 Comments/in Product, UX & Strategy /by Alan WrightQuantitative product metrics help us to understand whether our product is getting better, how people are using our tools and where they might be encountering problems. In this blog post, I explain how we (Climate Policy Radar) defined our user lifecycle funnel and tracked it in Google Analytics. What is a user lifecycle funnel? I […]
New feature: English translation of climate law and policy
/0 Comments/in Product, UX & Strategy /by Alan WrightClimate Policy Radar’s search tool breaks a critical research barrier by enabling users to search non English law and policy documents, and see English translations of passages that match their search. Effective policies are paramount to tackling climate change. Yet existing data about existing laws and policies – and which ones work – are sparse, […]
How we have setup Notion to help our startup stay organised
/0 Comments/in Team Ways of Working, Tools /by Alan WrightI am working at a startup of 13 people with big plans for the future. Notion is one of the main tools everybody in the team uses. This post describes how we have set up Notion to make information easy to find across multiple growing teams. What is Notion Notion is a note-taking and productivity […]
Climate Policy Radar launches public product roadmap
/0 Comments/in Product, UX & Strategy /by Alan WrightWe are delighted to share Climate Policy Radar’s Public Product Roadmap – sketching the steps we’re taking today to reach our (very) ambitious future goals. Transparency is one of our core values, and it threads through everything we do and advocate for. We believe that being open about our own processes and priorities will lead us to […]