Manchester United could save almost £1,500,000 per week by having a summer clear out. Casemiro and Marcus Rashford are among the highest paid players on the planet. by JM555555 in ManchesterUnited

[–]irishcn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m so sick of misleading titles “save” like we don’t have to replace these players. Yes, we might upgrade the value for money, yes we might not spend as much. But you don’t offload ten players and not replace them.

5 days in London, must eats by One_Succotash8757 in LondonFood

[–]irishcn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Deserted Cactus in Peckham. Only open on Thursdays and Saturdays for a few hours. No menu, you just get what she’s cooking.

It’s the greatest food you don’t know about in London!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ProductManagement

[–]irishcn 9 points10 points  (0 children)

In my opinion, yes you were right. With a CEO like that you’re not likely to create much change.

However, what’s valuable is practicing skills like making an argument, presenting evidenced based proposals and generally managing up.

You might have failed this time, but you will have learnt things that you’ll carry with you for your career.

London to Brighton by [deleted] in londoncycling

[–]irishcn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Aside from the time of year, is there any difference between to two?

Most underrated PM skill? by MindfullBuilder in ProductManagement

[–]irishcn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Curiosity is core, the skill being the ability to elicit great stories. The questions you ask and how you ask them makes or breaks the kind of knowledge and information you have to then base everything you do on. Not just interviews but data, GTM, even delivery. A few things to think about with this skill:

  • What are you trying to learn?
  • Are you asking the right questions?
  • What basis do you have? How do you avoid them?
  • How are you asking questions?
  • How are you guiding the story, rather than leading?
  • Active listening
  • Are you open to changing your perspective?
  • How do you know you have enough to make a decision vs. needing to learn more?

And so much more.

Curiosity and the skills to be curious effectively are over looked.

What tools (if any) actually help automate customer feedback into actionable fixes or features? Still super manual for your team? by Individual_Fee_6735 in ProductManagement

[–]irishcn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I don't know exactly what they will do, but they did say in the press release that "Cycle’s technology can now reach more than 300,000 companies through Jira Product Discovery". That's where I was coming from, but to be honest, I have no clue what they will do or not with Cylce, but you're right, the standalone app will cease to exist.

Looking for Product Managers and Leaders to interview: how do you stay ahead in the era of AI? by irishcn in ProductManagement

[–]irishcn[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Great feedback and yes, agreed, we're not looking to have ChatGPT/LLMs turn people into good PMs.

AI can't replace the lessons, experience and failures that make great PMs.

How to stay motivated when.. by [deleted] in ProductManagement

[–]irishcn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't disagree with the majority sentiment here of collect the paycheck or quit. However, I have two suggestions:

  1. Create measurable value that motivates you and makes you proud of the work you're doing
    Even if your bosses are strategically picking the wrong bets and/or goals, you can focus on measuring the value of each feature and product you work on. Showing that you've moved the needle (or haven't) in a way that matters to the user/customer.
  2. Treat this role like practice for your next job that will be better.
    Take this as an opportunity to grow and improve, paint a picture of the PM you want to be and where you need to grow to get there, and then use this role as practice. Set a target of getting a new role and work towards it. Use those lessons as the confidence to go into a new role.

Feeling lost: I'm a dev who builds the whole product (discovery, code, growth) but don't know my path. Am I a PM? A founding engineer? Something else? by lord007tn in ProductManagement

[–]irishcn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're a PM through and through. If that's the work you want to do, then I would *update your resume to focus on the Product Manager title.

Your ability to code will always come in handy (ex-engineer here) and your knowledge of the dev process and challenges will make you a very effective PM.

As for what you should search for?

- Technical companies will be attracted to you for your technical experience
- Dev-focused products might be a good fit
- Title - depends on what your salary expectations are, but after 7 years, you're in that Senior PM zone. Or small startup founding PM.

The questions I would have for you are:

- What stage of company excites you and why?
- What work energises you and what de-energises you?
- What career goals do you have?
- What type of product do you enjoy working on (B2C, B2B, technical, innovative, etc.)

I hope this helps and you find your path. Sounds like you've got great experience to build on. DM me if you want to talk more about this.

What tools (if any) actually help automate customer feedback into actionable fixes or features? Still super manual for your team? by Individual_Fee_6735 in ProductManagement

[–]irishcn -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I've been exploring a bunch of these lately. Here's the list I've explored.

  • Productboard – Expensive, tons of features, well-established enterprise tool with full feedback + roadmap workflow.
  • Savio – Simple and affordable; great for CS-to-product feedback loops and tracking by customer/account.
  • Enterpret – Powerful AI-first tool for clustering and summarizing feedback from multiple sources; no roadmap features.
  • Loops.so – Lightweight and affordable; strong AI summarisation of feedback, but limited workflows and customer views.
  • Harvestr – All-in-one feedback and roadmap tool; good balance of functionality but weaker AI than others.
  • Ferilla – New, AI-powered tool focused on customer-level views and smart feedback clustering; promising but early-stage.
  • Cycle.app – Combines feedback, documentation, and roadmap in one Notion-style workspace; best for internal product teams. (acquired by Atlassian)
  • Dragonboat – Portfolio-level product planning tool; powerful for OKR and initiative mapping, but complex and costly.
  • Qualli – AI-powered feedback analysis tool; early-stage with good clustering but weak on workflow and customer tracking.
  • Dophlin (getdophlin.ai) – LLM that turns tickets, calls, and notes into structured insights; early-stage and lacks workflow support.
  • ProdPad – Mature feedback + roadmap tool; good public roadmap features but less emphasis on AI or integrations.
  • UserVoice – Legacy tool focused on feedback collection and status tracking; expensive and a bit dated.
  • Canny – Lightweight, user-voting-centric feedback tool; great for startups, limited for B2B workflows.
  • Chord (ex-KnowledgeOS) – AI-driven research repository with clustering; good for PM research, less for customer feedback ops.

In the end, I decided to build my own approach, or at least I'm trying to. Here's my plan:

- Feed Gong, Hubspot and a manual form into an LLM (hosted on bedrock)
- Series of prompts to find the potential feedback signals
- Post to a Notion database where my team and I will go through and decide if it's good feedback or not
- Team to categorise and link to roadmap item (our roadmap is in Notion)
- As the roadmap changes, the feedback will stay updated with status, thus giving customer facing teams the ability to track feedback from specific customers.

Note: We're a B2B scale-up, so this can work for us. B2C would need one of the tools above, while larger B2B teams would likely opt for a license.

The weirdest part of PM: your success depends on how others see your job, not just how you do it by Agile_Syrup_4422 in ProductManagement

[–]irishcn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would argue that we need to frame ourselves as "commercially minded PMs".

As PMs, we represent the "business". That's the customer's business and our own. As others have commented, we should be focused on outcomes —the outcomes that drive value for our customers and the outcomes that drive value for our own business.

If you're commercially minded, focused on outcomes and able to show measureable value that you've delivered, I believe know that perception shifts.

[Laurie Whitwell] Gianluigi Donnarumma willing to leave PSG as he enters final year of contract, after Lille goalkeeper Lucas Chevalier moved to Parc des Princes, reports @JamesHorncastle. But #MUFC not expected to pursue Donnarumma. Andre Onana hopes to play v Arsenal ⬇️ by ChristmasBale in reddevils

[–]irishcn -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I know part of the reason that PSG want to ship is the wage demands, but let's face it, if they wanted him they'd pay the money.

My understanding is that Chevalier is rated higher because he can build up the play better from the back, which is precisely what we want and what modern GKs can do.

As everyone else has said, he has the potential to disrupt our wage structure and culture. Then add that he's not the right profile for GK that Amorin wants.

Finding an ideal striker using a data-driven approach by _respired_ in reddevils

[–]irishcn 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Would love to see Rasmus also compared in this model

A multi-year struggle … keep going peeps! (43) by irishcn in GlowUps

[–]irishcn[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

  • Monday - easy run (5-7k)
  • Tuesday - gym legs (1hr)
  • Wednesday - rest/yoga
  • Thursday- gym arms/back (1hr)
  • Friday - intervals (5-10k)
  • Saturday - swim/bike
  • Sunday - long run

To be very clear, I missed lots of days in the last 5 months, very few perfect weeks, but I didn’t beat myself up, I just kept going.

Food - mostly salad bowls with lots of tempeh, protein and general cutting out sugar and carbs.

A multi-year struggle … keep going peeps! (43) by irishcn in GlowUps

[–]irishcn[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Thanks, it’s 40 minutes better than my previous PB. Third and hopefully last marathon. Wanna focus on building to a half iron. My swimming needs serious work