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Group Product Manager @decathlon_tech #sportforthemany All views and typos my own. @ubisoft and @gdsteam alumni 🇩🇪🇫🇷🇬🇧🇪🇺

Joined July 2009
Here's the recording of my talk 'how to get away with murder (of a product)' youtube.com/watch?v=E5Kon4Zx…
Amongst PMs we often focus on building more and better. But sometimes it's also about doing less, or nothing at all! On 29 March 6.30pm CEST I will be sharing 'how to get away with murder of a product' Would love to see you there ☺ #productmanagement meetup.com/productmanagement…
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😉 Bientôt le grand break estival ? On vous annonce sans plus attendre les premiers noms de l'affiche de La Conf’ School of Product ! 👉 @Ch_Foyer 👉 @Lyoko4TW 👉 @haddad_lucie 👉 @agnes_crepet 👉 @IsaHuynh
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All of my GTM and growth strategy research summarized in one image:
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HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN'S LYING-IN-STATE QUEUE UPDATE, 9:00AM, 16 Sept Estimated queueing time is at least 14 hours Queue end is currently in Southwark Park What3words: navy.noises.overnight Tracker: youtube.com/watch?v=cJxDwDzA… Journey planner: tfl.gov.uk/plan-a-journey/
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The best product writing I've come across is 'Le Ticket' - in French only. Imo it's worth giving Duolingo a go, to access that gold 💰. Latest is on the development of the highly discussed 'SNCF Connect' App. le-ticket.fr/dans-les-coulis… #productmanagement
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Why it's the best? Excellent research, engaging writing and with an ear to the ground of current trends in product.
"Ironically, we tend to recreate the organizational silos we suffer." @AAGounot and I wrote about org design and its impact on the experiences we create - looking at the proliferation of unhelpful 'one-stop-shops' medium.com/@anneaudrey.gouno…
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After 4 years in government, I've written about how I think we could be doing better — if we understood the difference between issues that are ‘complex’ and those that are merely ‘complicated’. 
jallen300.medium.com/its-com…
 #govdesign #servicedesign #Policy #policydesign #systems
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I find writing alt text a very calming experience. It forces you to stop and really think about an image. I recommend it.
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Booked a train ticket from Berlin to Paris... the exact same journey was 50€ cheaper on bahn.de than on SNCF Connect. Glad I checked!
Learned some French business speak today. To have a rake - ie to have many line reports (and your org chart looks like a rake) 🤷‍♀️
Le no-code pour les services publics en UK 🔥🔥
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A colleague and I are working on a piece on 'one stop shops' and 'hubs' - that INTEND to solve navigation and discoverability problems- do you by any chance know of such experiments ?
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My grandma just told me she uses a magnifying glass to look at her tablet. 😱
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(now trying to figure out how to explain to her how to change accessibility settings... but somehow ironic how hard it is to turn them on!)
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Psychologists use a term called "pluralistic ignorance" to describe the phenomenon of "no one believes, but everyone thinks that everyone believes." (h/t @AdamMGrant) Here's a way to visualize it:
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Amongst PMs we often focus on building more and better. But sometimes it's also about doing less, or nothing at all! On 29 March 6.30pm CEST I will be sharing 'how to get away with murder of a product' Would love to see you there ☺ #productmanagement meetup.com/productmanagement…
It's always humbling to be proven wrong in your personal life by a product truth. The less you know the task the worse your ability to estimate it.
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Our flat renovation plan went from 'paint the flat in 2 days' to 'have painted 1 room in 7 days, and started things in every other room'.
when three levels of hierarchy of another team turn up to a project meeting, you know it's going to be chill.