Roger Swannell @rogerswannell.com · 06/12/2025#Weeknotes 488, featuring the multi-inheritance problem, machine-readable organisations, OKRs and health metrics, maintenance, reverse RACI and wicked learning environments. rogerswannell.com/weeknotes/we...rogerswannell.comWeeknotes 488 | Roger Swannell 020
Roger Swannell @rogerswannell.com · 05/12/2025A product is defined by its user outcomes and business objectives, not by its technology. 020
Roger Swannell @rogerswannell.com · 04/12/2025Interviewing engineers is an exercise in sociotechnical systems theory. 000
Roger Swannell @rogerswannell.com · 04/12/2025Oh Christopher! I'm sure there are much better things to spend £9m on. 000
Roger Swannell @rogerswannell.com · 04/12/2025So, is AI a general purpose technology, then? Have we reached that conclusion? 000
Roger Swannell @rogerswannell.com · 04/12/2025You can see culture eating strategy when ideas expressed in strategies become internalised by employees and are just what they do. It's a feature, not a bug. 000
Roger Swannell @rogerswannell.com · 03/12/2025Excel feature request: turn a cell into a button without having to put a URL in it. 000
Roger Swannell @rogerswannell.com · 02/12/2025Retros are great, but they are full of bias. That's why they need good analysis. 010
Roger Swannell @rogerswannell.com · 01/12/2025What I wouldn't give for some 'State of product management in higher education' research right about now. 000
Roger Swannell @rogerswannell.com · 01/12/2025If you prioritise by ease you're basically telling your users that's what convenient for you is more important than what's valuable to them. 000
Roger Swannell @rogerswannell.com · 30/11/2025Well, November, you had it all. Wind, rain, snow, ice, sun, mist. See you again next year. 010
Roger Swannell @rogerswannell.com · 29/11/2025#Weeknotes 487, featuring 46% of my time with people, training vs education, think big act small, jaggedness, on-demand work, undysfunctioning teams and why being a product manager is so cool. rogerswannell.com/weeknotes/we...rogerswannell.comWeeknotes 487 | Roger Swannell 010
Roger Swannell @rogerswannell.com · 28/11/2025How do we define our products is a very different from what can we productise. 000
Roger Swannell @rogerswannell.com · 27/11/2025There's definitely a gap in the market for recruiting and onboarding teams into organisations. 000
Roger Swannell @rogerswannell.com · 24/11/2025Microsoft Teams feature request: x2 speed for meetings. Actual meetings, not recordings. 020
Roger Swannell @rogerswannell.com · 23/11/2025Version 0.0.1 of any product is one person with a spreadsheet. Iterate from there. 000
Roger Swannell @rogerswannell.com · 23/11/2025How come email never really went the way of chat by grouping messages by recipient? 000
Roger Swannell @rogerswannell.com · 22/11/2025#Weeknotes 486, featuring DevSecOps, problemism, continuous digital transformation, no more boxes, no more MVPs, getting stuff wrong, from industrial to internet mindset, every team needs, tension in product strategy, compound interest & keeping up with the market rogerswannell.com/weeknotes/we...rogerswannell.comWeeknotes 486 | Roger Swannell 120
Roger Swannell @rogerswannell.com · 21/11/2025Chaos test your org. Tell a leader to suddenly take a week off with no handover and find out how much of a bottleneck or single point of failure they are. 020
Roger Swannell @rogerswannell.com · 21/11/2025If your roadmap is your backlog turned sideways, it's not a roadmap. 120
Roger Swannell @rogerswannell.com · 20/11/2025NHS: "Your experience matters"... if you're giving (e.g., donating blood). If you're getting... not so much. 000
Roger Swannell @rogerswannell.com · 20/11/2025Product request: post-it notes with glue on all four edges for sticking on laptops. 010
Roger Swannell @rogerswannell.com · 20/11/2025Evidence trumps opinion. Evidence doesn't trump Trump's opinion. 020
Reposted by Roger SwannellErika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 18/11/2025The first edition of Conversational Design is available as a free download. I think more people should read it before they go making every interface into chatbots. www.mulebooks.com/conversation...mulebooks.comConversational Design — MULE BOOKSThe interaction design book that explains why chatbots tend to suck 13722
Roger Swannell @rogerswannell.com · 18/11/2025Microsoft Teams, just so you know, more notifications does not equal better engagement. 000
Roger Swannell @rogerswannell.com · 17/11/2025So many books start strong and finish weak. What's going on there? Do authors get bored? Do they not really have enough ideas? Do they expect readers not to finish their book? 000
Roger Swannell @rogerswannell.com · 16/11/2025You know we only have to be productive so we can be more consumptive, right? 020
Roger Swannell @rogerswannell.com · 15/11/2025#Weeknotes 485, featuring lots of talking, bets, leadership of the future, five dysfunctions, products about people, AI search and the problem with alignment. rogerswannell.com/weeknotes/we... 020
Roger Swannell @rogerswannell.com · 08/11/2025#Weeknotes 484, featuring thinking big starting small, management by objectives, AI when there's no right answer, service patterns, sociotechnical principles, strategic levers, Mcdonaldization is not a product strategy and the elephant and the knowledge workers rogerswannell.com/weeknotes/we...rogerswannell.comWeeknotes 484 | Roger Swannell 000
Roger Swannell @rogerswannell.com · 07/11/2025Imagine how much good you could do in the world with a trillion dollars. 020
Roger Swannell @rogerswannell.com · 07/11/2025Copilot thinks my emails should be rewritten to be more professional. How rude. 010
Reposted by Roger SwannellImran Hussain @imhuyorks.bsky.social · 06/11/2025Hallo! The #GOV.UKDesignSystem team are looking for feedback on adding rounded corners to buttons, which we think will improve the usability of the component. You can see and comment on our proposal on GitHub discussions: github.com/alphagov/gov... Please take 3 mins to feed back. 🙌Danke, Imrangithub.comAdding rounded corners to buttons · alphagov govuk-design-system · Discussion #4941Background The Design System team is exploring new styling options, including rounded corners for buttons, following the GOV.UK brand refresh. We want to make sure the changes we make are not purel... 149
Roger Swannell @rogerswannell.com · 01/11/2025Number plate: AG11 LTY She trains dogs to jump through hoops. 010
Roger Swannell @rogerswannell.com · 01/11/2025#Weeknotes 483, featuring assessing opportunities, creating team coherence, insights library, a year of task tracking, fewer managers, agents shopping, written word channel and culture, flywheel or marginal gains, and blank slate vs building-on. rogerswannell.com/weeknotes/we... 000
Roger Swannell @rogerswannell.com · 31/10/2025I never got a Bronze Swimming Certificate and I feel let down by the entire education system. 000
Roger Swannell @rogerswannell.com · 28/10/2025If good software was all it took to create a good product, product management would be easy. 030
