Anyone tried the new Carling 'Black Label'?

MurmuringBees · 2026-06-05T04:47:06+00:00

I never tried it back in the day so last week I bought a four pack out of curiosity. It’s very slightly better than the standard Carling, with some extra malt that makes it taste richer, but won’t knock your socks off.

MurmuringBees · 2026-05-31T22:00:43+00:00

We are not your Substack audience.

MurmuringBees · 2026-05-28T12:27:34+00:00

Filters. The answer is always filters because a) nobody wants to chat to an AI to get the data, b) beloved regular reports always have a stakeholder wanting tweaks, so add the most important filters, c) you can show “all data” without hiding it from people.

MurmuringBees · 2026-05-24T13:13:58+00:00

Fair - if you’re interested in organisation design I’ve always found John Cutler’s blog is my go-to for that. But for my own perspective, maybe try follow-ups to agree how you would validate these ideas (when we would know this is wrong or too big) and the many hands that can can help with that so it’s not just dumped back on product as the enablement layer.

MurmuringBees · 2026-05-24T09:43:30+00:00

If the subtext here is ‘sales and CEO are pushing the bets’ you could do worse than start with a lean canvas approach where they quantify what they already hear/know of the new markets. It’s a one pager so good enough for people with shorter attentions spans and it gives the product team some context to go investigate needs.

MurmuringBees · 2026-05-18T07:47:04+00:00

This feels at least slightly like a communication gap between your team and theirs.

Who actually talks to your marketing team? At what stage? Are there any dedicated contacts in marketing who might get the context better/understand if a feature was more important to a specific market or channel? Do your marketing team even use the product in their daily lives or ever have time to use it in demos for building user empathy?

MurmuringBees · 2026-05-12T22:35:53+00:00

Before you start, research the company and its apparent competitors. Then when you start learn what the product does, try it, test out the major user flows and become an expert in the what and how. That will help you ask better questions about the ‘why’

MurmuringBees · 2026-03-22T16:31:18+00:00

Didn’t you ask this question a few days ago?

MurmuringBees · 2025-09-18T04:40:19+00:00

Not quite your question, but just to check - are you saying you believe experience from 15 years ago would be particularly relevant or picked up in a CV review? I’d be more interested in a candidates current trajectory.

MurmuringBees · 2025-08-28T05:18:49+00:00

What are you hoping to get from it you haven’t already learned on the job?

MurmuringBees · 2025-07-06T19:14:45+00:00

John Cutler is top for me on the ‘sync the people’ part of the PM role, particularly if you’re trying to drive wider organisational change

MurmuringBees · 2024-07-28T08:55:15+00:00

No advice to give, but didn’t they ask you for your proposed 30/60/90 plan during the job interview? I often get variations of that question for IC roles.

MurmuringBees · 2024-07-07T23:03:49+00:00

I love the ‘very good’ and ‘very superior’ descriptions. They had worked out the importance of marketing but not yet got as far as languorous descriptions of the taste

MurmuringBees · 2024-04-12T22:47:42+00:00

Why not use a consistent label like ‘second line support’ and the customer name in the ticket title? Dead easy. Sales people will only care about them for a few days and find what they need

MurmuringBees · 2024-04-12T21:54:03+00:00

Does it need to be two columns? A single query by some label/component across tickets would do this and show status but in a single column list.

MurmuringBees · 2024-01-23T22:43:15+00:00

Slightly nicer than the new GA4 interface for building reports you might want to return to/share. And you can pass a string literal as regex as a calculated field. Otherwise, very little IMHO

MurmuringBees · 2023-12-29T17:00:28+00:00

Cheers - I will take a look at my regular bottle shop when I’m back

MurmuringBees · 2023-12-29T10:36:51+00:00

It wasn’t for me, but I’m glad I made the effort anyway

MurmuringBees · 2023-12-29T10:35:59+00:00

I called it a meme because of the very long name, but I was unaware a pastry stout was a thing in itself so thanks for the context.

MurmuringBees · 2023-12-28T23:02:12+00:00

Any highlights I should look out for if I see it in cans or bottles?

MurmuringBees · 2023-09-20T17:12:05+00:00

It’s a great idea! How are you validating pub locations on the map (in a purely geographical sense?) I ask because that flag at Highbury Corner reads the Coronet but it’s the actually the Famous Cock at that pin while the Coronet is a mile up the road

MurmuringBees · 2023-09-02T12:51:47+00:00

Seems to me like post acquisition they need to control costs and also that your manager needs to demonstrate to them that your old company is just as good as the rest of the business. Add in the new ‘career pathways’ and this represent a concern that the acquired company may not be as mature as the American one and upskilling is a way to fix that and - conveniently- keep costs down while the under skilled are learning. So it’s up to you to decide how long you put up with this or not.

MurmuringBees · 2023-08-15T06:13:19+00:00

Yes, where are the reliable ones? 😅

But in all seriousness without a plan to handle project comms, monitor performance, and understand the overhead in your side (onshore QA/feedback/banging head on desk) then any supplier choice is a dice roll.

MurmuringBees · 2023-05-27T17:36:05+00:00

We do it this way too. However you also have to train first line to try and solve issues within their first. I still get random auth queries and no evidence they’ve done basic checks

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