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Philippa Peasland

Weeknotes (10) – mama can’t pour from an empty cup

Last week was exhausting. I cried in a meeting because I felt overwhelmed. The thing that tipped me over the edge was a very long email…

2 min readFeb 27, 2023

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Philippa Peasland

Weeknotes (9) — your diary is your priorities; being really sick; multi-disciplinary…

My ‘week’ this week has actually been 2 days. I came down with a horrible lurgy on Tuesday and didn’t leave my bed for 48 hours. Despite…

3 min readFeb 16, 2023

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Philippa Peasland

Weeknotes (8) – now next later roadmaps; near misses; good reads

Last week was tiring. Which is why I’m writing these on Sunday. I don’t want to get out of the habit of writing and reflecting every week…

2 min readFeb 12, 2023

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Philippa Peasland

Weeknotes (7) – F2F collaboration; could chatGBT replace product??

This week I worked one day in our Manchester office, one from home and two days from Belfast. It’s the first time I’ve travelled by plane…

3 min readFeb 5, 2023

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Philippa Peasland

Weeknotes (6) — riskiest assumptions vs MVPs; connecting the strategy dots

This week has been really energising. I’ve had 3 days in the office and the time with colleagues has been so productive (and fun!). We’ve…

3 min readJan 27, 2023

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Philippa Peasland

Weeknotes (5) – creating space to think; figma basics; sliding scales in decision making

Well, we had 24 hours of good family health, before D&V hit. In some ways I feel that two vomiting children when you’re not well yourself…

3 min readJan 20, 2023

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Philippa Peasland

Weeknotes (4) – presentation prep styles; 5 product planning artefacts; product leadership in…

This week I finally made it back into the office after a month of train strikes, illness and holidays. It felt soooo good to be back…

4 min readJan 14, 2023

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Philippa Peasland

Weeknotes (3) — parenting realities; Jira product tools; quarterly planning

At the beginning of December I started writing weeknotes…and then stopped after my second issue. That wasn’t intentional. I just got sick…

4 min readJan 9, 2023

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Philippa Peasland

Weeknotes (2) — Outcomes over outputs; start up funding; planning in uncertain times

This week I feel like every waking second of my days has been spent trying to reduce my work or personal to do lists and I think they’ve…

4 min readDec 1, 2022

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Philippa Peasland

Weeknotes (1) — finance for product leaders, is Google broken?,

I’ve decided to start writing weeknotes. I’ve just joined Vypr as their first Head of Product. I’m returning to work 4 days a week (80%…

5 min readNov 24, 2022

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Philippa Peasland

Philippa Peasland

Head of Product at Vypr, a Manchester HQd product insight SaaS scale-up. Product nerd. Principles over processes. Sensitivity over semantics.

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