Community has been a big part of Brainmates from the beginning. Back in the early noughties, when Brainmates began, nobody knew what Product Management was. When we spoke about it, people thought we...

Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge.”- Winston Churchill Wow what a challenge the past 3 months have been! So many of us have lost our jobs, had our hours reduced or been...

Pinch and zoom. Apple trained us to do this on our phones. Google trained us to do this with maps. If you want to look at something closely you “zoom”. If you want to view the big picture you...

Delivering value from Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A), just like product management, is cross-functional in nature. As of this moment, M&A activity has come to a shuddering halt as...

As an Aussie-expat based in San Francisco, I briefly took a passing interest in baseball. One of the many, many statistics leagues track is called a batting average - the ratio of times a batter...

In the current climate it’s hard to tell which businesses are surviving and which ones are sinking. Without the face-to-face interaction that is usually so much a part of our professional lives,...

I’m using this time to reflect on the practice of Product Management and how it may change when we emerge out of this unprecedented global turmoil. Over the years, Product Management has become...

16th of March at Brainmates was a sombre day. It was the last day the whole Brainmates Team was in the office together before shifting to remote working for who-knows-how-long. In the past two...