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Practical perspectives on complex work

Frameworks, lessons learned, and grounded thinking on product strategy, ecommerce, business analysis, and AI-assisted workflows.

Product Management

AI Didn't Kill Requirement, It Made Them Critical Again

User stories shifted product teams toward understanding intent, but AI has exposed a new gap. When execution happens in minutes, precision becomes the real competitive advantage.

Elisabeth Martin ·
Product Management

What Vibe Coding Popularity Quietly Reveals About Organizational Frustration With Software Delivery

Vibe coding's popularity isn't really a technology story. It's an organizational one, exposing years of accumulated delivery friction that business teams quietly normalized.

Elisabeth Martin ·
Product Management

Relearning Requirements: How Teams Can Rebuild the Muscle After Years of Agile Drift

AI doesn't just accelerate delivery. It exposes weak thinking immediately. Many teams lost the habit of writing with precision, and now the cost of that drift is becoming very visible.

Elisabeth Martin ·
Product Management

Prioritization as a System

Ad-hoc prioritization creates invisible debt. Teams that treat prioritization as a repeatable system make better decisions faster and with less conflict.

Cédric Butler ·
Product Management

Product Teams Are Spending More Time on Strategy but Less Time With Customers

47% of product professionals report spending more time on strategy, but 53% spend less than 5 hours a month with customers. There is a difference between internal strategy and market strategy, and many teams are confusing the two.

Elisabeth Martin ·
Product Management

Product Teams Are Being Measured on Revenue But So Is Sales

Both product and sales teams are now accountable for revenue, but they influence very different parts of it. Conflating the two creates organizational friction that is entirely avoidable.

Elisabeth Martin ·
AI Workflows

AI in Product Management

AI is being adopted faster than teams can evaluate it. A grounded look at where it creates genuine leverage in product work, and where the hype still outpaces the reality.

Elisabeth Martin ·
Ecommerce

Scaling Multi-Storefront Ecommerce

Running one storefront well is hard. Running five is a different discipline entirely, one that demands architectural decisions most teams delay until they're already in trouble.

Elisabeth Martin ·
Ecommerce

Why Ecommerce Migrations Fail

Ecommerce migrations often become more complex than expected as integrations, workflows and operational realities begin to surface throughout the project.

Cédric Butler ·
Business Analysis

Customize vs. Adapt: A Decision Framework for Ecommerce Teams

When a platform doesn't quite fit, the instinct is to customize it. Often, adapting your process is the smarter and cheaper choice.

Cédric Butler ·
Business Analysis

The Cost of Poor Backlog Management

A cluttered, ungroomed backlog is more than a productivity problem. It erodes team confidence, slows decision-making, and hides the work that actually matters.

Cédric Butler ·
Ecommerce

How To Build An AI Purchasing Assistant On An Ecommerce Platform

A practical guide to building an AI purchasing assistant using Flowise, product data, and a simple ecommerce integration model, and why starting constrained is almost always the right call.

Elisabeth Martin ·
Product Management

Product Teams Are No Longer Measured by Shipping

Revenue has replaced shipping as the dominant success metric for product teams, but most organizations haven't updated their operating models to match. The gap is creating enormous tension.

Elisabeth Martin ·
Product Management

Writing Product Requirements That Work

Bad requirements are one of the most reliable sources of rework, misalignment, and missed launches. Here is what good ones actually look like.

Elisabeth Martin ·
Ecommerce

AI Is Quietly Forcing Ecommerce Teams To Clean Up Years Of Operational Debt

Ecommerce organizations are excited about AI, but AI is also exposing operational debt they were previously able to ignore. Messy product data, unclear ownership, and fragile processes are becoming impossible to hide.

Elisabeth Martin ·
Ecommerce

ERP and Ecommerce Integration

ERP-ecommerce integration is often treated as a technical problem. In practice, it is a business alignment problem with a technical dimension.

Cédric Butler ·
Ecommerce

Why Some Ecommerce Features Fail to Deliver Value

Not every ecommerce feature request automatically creates business value. Without clear objectives, KPIs and validation, teams may invest significant effort into features with limited impact.

Cédric Butler ·
Product Ownership

Product Ownership in B2B Ecommerce

B2B ecommerce platforms serve buyers who are also employees navigating complex procurement rules. Product ownership here demands a different mental model.

Cédric Butler ·
Ecommerce

The Production-Not-Live Strategy

Deploying to production without going live is a powerful but underused migration strategy. Here is what it requires and when it makes sense.

Elisabeth Martin ·
Ecommerce

Why Ecommerce Migrations Fail

Ecommerce migrations are among the most complex initiatives a commerce team will undertake. Most fail not because of technology, but because of planning.

Cédric Butler ·
Product Management

From Requests to Products

Most product teams spend their time managing requests. The shift to product thinking is harder than it sounds, and more valuable than most leaders expect.

Elisabeth Martin ·
Ecommerce

The Hidden Complexity of B2B Ecommerce

B2B ecommerce projects often involve much more than the website itself. Business rules, ERP workflows and operational processes can significantly increase complexity behind the scenes.

Cédric Butler ·
Ecommerce

ERP Data Is Not Always Ecommerce Ready

In many ERP integration projects, the technical synchronization is not the hardest part. Preparing operational data for ecommerce usage is often the larger challenge.

Cédric Butler ·
Ecommerce

A Successful Go-Live Requires More Than a Working Website

In ecommerce projects, a website can appear ready while critical operational workflows remain insufficiently validated. Successful go-lives require more than frontend testing alone.

Cédric Butler ·
Ecommerce

The Hidden Complexity of B2B Ecommerce

Many B2B ecommerce projects start as website projects and quickly become operational transformation projects. The website is rarely the hard part. Everything behind it is.

Elisabeth Martin ·
Ecommerce

A Simple Website Change Is Rarely Simple

Small ecommerce requests can sometimes create larger operational and technical impacts than expected, especially in integrated environments connected to ERP systems and business workflows.

Cédric Butler ·
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