Like many other product people, I am often affected by impostor syndrome. While reading Empowered, the latest book by Marty Cagan and Chris Jones, I started to think about how I can actually act on it.

4 spot-on ideas to challenge our capability of innovating every day.

Q4 2020 marks one year since we started to work with a new product development process at Hemnet. I took some time to reflect on what I believe are some of the ingredients of our success.

There is a myth that if you are not able to manage many different things in parallel then you are not fit for product. The more I work with product development, the more I realize that there is nothing more wrong than this assumption.

During these second-wave-of-pandemic days, I am thinking back at the mission-driven development we did with Hemnet Live. This was our way to contribute and take responsibility in the midst of a really difficult situation.

During one of our Hemnet book club sessions, we discussed Marty Cagan’s article on problem space vs solution space. The discussion made me really think: are PMs and product teams focusing so much on problems that they are losing interest in finding the best solution for the customers?

I recently read ”Always day one - how the tech titans plan to stay on top forever” by Alex Kantrowitz. While reading I really started to reflect on the quality a leader is supposed to have and on what society depicts success as.

At Hemnet we have a product development book club where we read a book on a product development topic and meet weekly to discuss how the subject applies to our workplace. This is what we have been reading this spring.

Jeff Bezos´s letters to shareholders reveal patterns beyond some widely successful products

I participated in the world product day organized by Mind the Product to talk about how we adapted Hemnet product development to covid-19.

This morning I had the pleasure of joining our friends at Property Finder in one of their market data webinars.

I talked about real estate market trends based on Hemnet's unique data and shared insights on Hemnet Live. And I learned a lot about search trends and market possibilities in the UAE. Thanks for having me!