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Amy Johnson | Chief Product Officer PropelMar 19, 2026 4:59:10 PM3 min read

Sense-Making v Speed in an AI'ified SDLC World

Speed vs. Sense-Making As a product operating model consultant, one way to go fast is to ...
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Amy Johnson | Chief Product Officer PropelMar 3, 2026 5:42:08 PM6 min read

Where Every Step Matters: Designing AI for High-Consequence Work

In the middle of a product validation cycle, a user of the product we were testing framed ...
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Alice Kidd | Product ConsultantFeb 23, 2026 3:44:31 PM3 min read

When AI Becomes Confetti

Every leadership session eventually circles back to it. More and more we are hearing this ...
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Wilson Lilburne | Development LeadFeb 16, 2026 4:24:06 PM3 min read

Do we even need Product Managers anymore? Part 2: The Tech Perspective

In the last post, Amy Johnson asked the question of what happens when AI accelerates ...
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Amy Johnson | Chief Product Officer PropelFeb 11, 2026 3:47:25 PM6 min read

Do we even need Product Managers anymore? Part 1

It’s the question doing the rounds right now: with AI collapsing development timelines ...
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Josephine Maguire-Rosier | Product LeadFeb 9, 2026 4:49:44 PM5 min read

Opportunistic Sales - The Silent Killer of B2B SaaS Growth

You’re sitting between $2M–$20M ARR. Your growth targets are adding pressure, but the ...
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Amy Johnson | Chief Product Officer PropelFeb 3, 2026 3:07:38 PM4 min read

Self-Organising Teams - Don’t Scale on Hope

“The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams.” ...
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Amy Johnson | Chief Product Officer PropelSep 8, 2025 5:35:07 PM2 min read

Value Streams and the Power of Shared Accountability

Last week, Propel and Ken Sandy teamed up to run Value Stream training with product ...
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Amy Johnson | Chief Product Officer PropelAug 11, 2025 4:31:06 PM3 min read

Smaller Teams, Stretchier People

The killer question of today's panel talk at AWS' Unicorn Day was ... if you’re scaling ...
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Amy Johnson | Chief Product Officer PropelJul 25, 2025 4:36:25 PM2 min read

OOOps & Happy Accidents

I often use the principles of Team Topology when working with large enterprises, so was ...
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